The World's Biggest Animals

 Here is a collection of the worlds biggest animals, from dogs to horses to
cows, enjoy!

World's Biggest Dog

Say hello to this gargantuan specimen named Hercules, purportedly the Guinness Record
holder for World's Biggest Dog. Hercules is an English Mastiff and has a 38 inch
neck and weighs 282 pounds. With "paws the size of softballs", the three-year-old
monster is far larger and heavier than his breed's standard 200lb. limit. Hercules
owner Mr. Flynn says that Hercules weight is natural and not induced by a bizarre
diet: "I fed him normal food and he just grew, and grew, and grew”.

World's Biggest Horse

Radar, a Belgian draught horse, is the World’s Tallest Living Horse. This huge horse,
at 6ft 71/2in from hoof to shoulder, is from Mount Pleasant, Texas. At 2,400lb,
he has a giant appetite to match, putting away 20 gallons of water a day and 18lb
of grain.

World’s Biggest Cow

As big as a small elephant, Big Cow Chilli and he's described as a gentle giant.
Chilli the giant bullock stands at 6ft 6ins and weighs well over a ton. Despite
his grand stature, Chilli only grazes on grass during the day and enjoys the occasional
swede as a treat.

World's Biggest Pig

The Liaoning Provincial Agricultural Museum is appealing to the Guinness Book of
Records to recognise a 900 kg (1984 pounds) pig which died on February 5 as the
biggest pig ever. When the pig died it was 2.5 metres long, had a waistline of 2.23
metres and a tusk of 14.4 centimetres long. According to XU Changjin, a farmer of
Wafangdian city, the pig was only 5 years old. He kept his pig in a good built sty
and gave it quality food all its life.

World's Biggest Catfish

At 646LB this Mekong Giant Catfish is the largest freshwater fish in the world.
With nearly nine feet long (2.7 meters) and as big as a grizzly bear, this huge
catfish caught in northern Thailand may be the largest freshwater fish ever recorded.
Although there are many claims and rumours about the world’s largest freshwater
specimens, especially from misguided anglers. However, in the eyes of scientist's
the Mekong Giant Catfish has taken pole position with the recorded capture of this
huge 646LB specimen by local fishermen in 2005. Many anglers over look the fact
that some larger fish that can be caught in the worlds rivers, such as Sturgeon,
migrate between river and sea, and therefore not considered to be freshwater species
in the true sense of the word.

World's Tallest Dog

Hercules might be the biggest dog in the world, but the tallest according to the
Guinness World Records is Gibson, a Harlequin Great Dane, who is 42.2 inches. The
170-pound Dane is more than 7 feet tall, taller than most NBA basketball players.

World's Biggest Cat

Jungle Island in Miami is home to a liger (a hybrid cross between a male lion and
a female tiger) named Hercules, the largest non-obese liger. The liger is recognized
by the Guiness Book of World Records as the largest cat on Earth, weighing in at
900 lbs.

World's Biggest Stingray ever caught

It took 90 minutes to land, 13 men to heave it out of the water... and weighed 55
stone when they finally got it to the scales. So it's little wonder that when Ian
Welch first hooked the record stingray, it almost pulled him into the river. The
angler, from Aldershot, Hampshire, was fishing in Thailand when he landed the ray,
which is the biggest freshwater fish to be caught with a rod, with over 7ft long
and wide, with a tail of 10ft.

World's Biggest Shark ever caught

More likely to eat than be eaten, this giant whale shark was caught off the coast
of China by hardcore fishermen who managed to harness the ten-metre, eight-tonne
whopper. Whale sharks are the world's largest living fish, it is estimated that
they can reach an 18 metre length. They live in warm water along the coast and open
seas and spend most of their time near the surface.