Tallest Animals in the World
The tallest living animals by maximum natural standing height, in metres. The giraffe towers over all others at up to 5.5 m - measured to the top of its head - roughly the height of a two-storey building. Figures are approximate maxima.
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Tallest Animals in the WorldThe giraffe (5.5 m) stands in a class of its own, rising nearly 1.5 m above the African bush elephant (4.0 m), the tallest land mammal by shoulder height. These two megaherbivores then dwarf everything else: the ostrich (2.8 m), the tallest bird, and the moose and dromedary camel (both ≈2.1 m) reach barely a third of the giraffe's height. The giraffe's extreme stature - driven by an elongated neck and legs that let it browse foliage no other animal can reach - is an evolutionary outlier with no close rival. Note that heights are measured differently by species (giraffe to the head, elephant to the shoulder), but even so the giraffe's dominance is unmistakable.
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