Cet article présente une liste des mammifères terrestres actuellement existants les plus lourds.
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- (en) Larramendi, « Proboscideans: Shoulder Height, Body Mass and Shape », Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, (DOI 10.4202/app.00136.2014, S2CID 2092950, lire en ligne, consulté le ) This is the range for 90% of the male population; see Table 8.
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- (en) Meagher, « Bison bison », Mammalian Species, no 266, , p. 1–8 (DOI 10.1093/mspecies/266.1, JSTOR 3504019) Male weight range, page 1.
- ↑ Joel Berger et Carol Cunningham, Bison: mating and conservation in small populations, Columbia University Press, (ISBN 978-0-231-08456-7), p. 162
- ↑ (en) Aryal, Shrestha, Ram et Frey, « Call to conserve the Wild Water Buffalo (Bubalus arnee) in Nepal », International Journal of Conservation Science, vol. 2, no 4, , p. 261–268 (lire en ligne, consulté le ) See page 262.
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- ↑ (en) Derocher et Wiig, « Postnatal growth in body length and mass of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) at Svalbard », Journal of Zoology, vol. 256, no 3, , p. 343–349 (DOI 10.1017/S0952836902000377)
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- ↑ (en) Christiansen, P., « What size were Arctodus simus and Ursus spelaeus (Carnivora: Ursidae)? », Annales Zoologici Fennici, vol. 36, no 2, , p. 93–102 (JSTOR 23735739)
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- ↑ Wood, Gerald, The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats, Guinness Superlatives, (ISBN 978-0-85112-235-9, lire en ligne)
- ↑ Scott LaFee, « Seeds of doubt », The San Diego Union-Tribune, (lire en ligne, consulté le )
- ↑ (en) Pienaar, « Observation on developmental biology, growth and some aspects of the population ecology of the African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer caffer Sparrman) in the Kruger National Park », Koedoe, vol. 12, no 1, (ISSN 2071-0771, DOI 10.4102/koedoe.v12i1.745, lire en ligne) Combined adult male range for Kruger National Park, South Africa (639.6-767.5 kg; Table 1, page ~56) and East Africa (678.6-835.1 kg; page 36)
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- ↑ (en) « Cervus elaphus » [archive du ], Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology (consulté le )
- ↑ (en) Eide, « Roosevelt Elk » [archive du ], Alaska Department of Fish and Game (consulté le )