Talk:List of largest mammals

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This page is unnecessary and should be deleted the subject was covered more conclusively in largest organisms and therefore shouldnt exist98.250.4.115 (talk) 03:04, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

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Reference named "Hunter": From Brown bear: Carnivores of the World by Dr. Luke Hunter. Princeton University Press (2011), ISBN 9780691152288 From Bear: Carnivores of the World by Dr. Luke Hunter. Princeton University Press (2011), ISBN 978-0-691-15228-8 From Binturong: Hunter, L. (2011). Carnivores of the World. Princeton University Press, ISBN 9780691152288 

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Orphaned references in List of largest mammals
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Reference named "Walker": From Hippopotamus: Novak, R. M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World. 6th edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. ISBN 0-8018-5789-9 From Bat: Nowak, R. M., editor (1999). Walker's Mammals of the World. Vol. 1. 6th edition. Pp. 264–271. ISBN 0-8018-5789-9 From Giant golden-crowned flying fox:  

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African elephant weigths at most 12 tonnes or 12.3 tonnes, not 10.4 tonnes and was shot in 1974, not in 1955
Sources: https://naturalhistory.si.edu/onehundredyears/featured_objects/fenykovi_elephant.html https://worldstrides.com/blog/2013/04/museum-natural-history/ https://books.google.pt/books?id=aD1CFpd3rmMC&pg=PA79&lpg=PA79&dq=african+elephant+12000kg&source=bl&ots=K42ybsSLlI&sig=5W1QmfYGOAqaxOgV7cFucSH2jXU&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjS5_zO6P3YAhWENxQKHQJLBfEQ6AEIUTAI#v=onepage&q=african%20elephant%2012000kg&f=false https://www.pairidaiza.eu/en/activities/the-big-five — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.48.210.235 (talk) 15:29, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I left a comment here explaining the situation, in short, yes, the supposed largest African elephant was shot in 1974, it is commonly confused with the 1955 one because they were guessed by their hunters to have been 12 metric tons and 12 imperial tons respectively and yes, you heard that right, their weights are guesses from their hunters not scientists, they were never weighted. The estimate of 10400kg from Larramendi (2016) is indeed for a 4m tall elephant and it is immensely superior because it is based on real wild elephant data not an ego-driven hunter's guess. Mike.BRZ (talk) 16:23, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Would you stop with that bullshit? Check your talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:109.48.210.235 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.131.57.253 (talk) 12:55, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Found conflicting information and possible redundant wording
This page's section on primates says that largest species of tarsier is the Lariang tarsier at 67–117 g. However, the Philippine tarsier weighs 80–160 g. Could anyone please tell me if I should replace the information on this page?

Also, I think the section "monotreme mammals" should just be "monotremes", which is how the wiki page on monotremes uses the word. Could anyone please tell me which would be better?--Thylacine24 (talk) 15:19, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Re the former, that's who is currently favouring every "List of largest..." article with spectacularly ill-considered additions. I mean, add an entry for "largest platypus", when there is a grand total of ONE species?!? Undone. As for the latter, fine by me. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 17:32, 29 September 2021 (UTC)