
Top 10: What are the heaviest land carnivores?
Published: 26th August, 2016 at 14:00
These big beasts need a lot to eat to get to their superior size – just make sure you’re not on the menu.
10. Grey wolf

Weight: 80kg
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Diet: moose, deer
9. Spotted hyena

Weight: 90kg
Diet: wildebeest, zebra
8. Green anaconda

Weight: 97.5kg
Diet: fish, birds, deer
7. Jaguar

Weight: 158kg
Diet: caiman, deer, capybaras
6. Burmese python

Weight: 183kg*
Diet: rats, deer, goats
*Heaviest recorded specimen
5. African lion

Weight: 250kg
Diet: wildebeest, zebra, carrion
4. Siberian tiger

Weight: 318kg
Diet: deer, pigs
3. Brown bear

Weight: 680kg
Diet: salmon, berries, seaweed
2. Polar bear

Weight: 700kg
Diet: ringed and bearded seals
1. Walrus*

Weight: 1,200kg
Diet: shellfish, occasionally seals
*Walruses spend a third of their lives on land or ice.
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