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Growing and

breeding facts

ANIMALS GIGANTIC

WITH AMAZING GROWTH GRUB

Goliath beetles from Africa,
▼ Panda the world’s heaviest insects, weigh
Cubs at birth weigh about 100 g (4 oz), around 60 g (2 oz) as adults.
barely one-thousandth of their mother’s Their larvae, almost
weight of 100–115 kg (220–250 lb). too big to hold
in a hand, are
nearly twice as
Red kangaroo heavy, tipping
Baby kangroos, or ”joeys”, are very the scales at up
undeveloped when born and weigh to 100 g (4 oz).
just 1 g ( ⁄3 oz), but they may
1
reach 90 kg (200 lb) when adult.

▶ Blue whale
Calves are big babies, weighing LONG-
up to 2,700 kg (6,000 lb) at
birth, but the adults weigh up TERM
to 150,000 kg (330,000 lb).
LARV A

GOING HUNGRY Golden jewel beetles hold the

record for long development. Some
Not eating for hours makes anyone feel hungry but some have lasted an incredible 51 years
animals can miss meals for years. If food is scarce as larvae before emerging as adults.
or temperatures extreme, their body processes, such as
heart rate, slow down and they live in suspended animation. Adult

Larva

• Olm (a salamander): • African lungfish: • Royal python:
may survive 10 years may survive 5 years may survive 2 years

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