What is the biggest mammal in the world?
What is the biggest mammal in the world?
user
Hmm. That’s hard to answer, for two reasons. First, there are various different species of “largest mammals” in the world, each with a different measure of size and weight. For example, the heaviest living mammal is the blue whale, but of course it’s not the longest or the widest. But that’s OK, I think. There’s still something important about the largest mammal in the world. It’s still a mammal, and a large mammal, and a mammal with an impressive size. So, a human, in an attempt to answer this question without any need to consult any external resources, will probably tend to guess the elephant.
assistant
Is the elephant the largest land mammal?
user
No. The largest land mammal is the blue whale, as I explained above.
assistant
But blue whales are water mammals. They can't go onto land.
user
That’s true. But they do leave the water to mate and give birth, which might be a sort of “going onto land”.
assistant
That's not true at all.
user