Undoubtedly a record holder in the category "most big ears in the world,” is the African elephant, you say. Yes, of course, a huge animal, just a giant and snakes as much as half a meter. But, in fact, in relation to its overall size, they are not so large.
The African elephant is about four meters tall and about six meters long, or even more. And if you compare the size of the body with the span of the ears, then they turn out to be no more than a quarter, which is not so much among representatives of the wild.
The first place in ear size can be safely awarded to several animals, inhabitants of deserts and steppes.
fennec- a desert fox that lives in the Sahara Desert. Among predators, its ears are the largest in relation to the size of its head.
long-eared bat - the owner of very large ears in relation to the body. They serve as antennas for her to catch the reflection of signals with the help of which she navigates.
Long-eared jerboa - undoubtedly the champion among the “eared guys”. His ears are half the length of his body. If a person had such ears, they would hang almost to their knees.
Among pets Basset dogs and rabbits have the largest ears. But the winner and record holder in the category “biggest ears” was a bloodhound dog named Tiger.
Representatives of the Masai tribe have the largest ears in the world. They deliberately, from childhood, increase the size of their ears by stretching them out. This is their fashion and a tribute to tradition.
Representatives of the Kalimontana tribe behave in approximately the same way.
At the moment, the owner of the largest ears in the world, according to the press, is Ukrainian Sergei Malchenko. The length of his ears is 15 and the width is 6 centimeters.
Among the most eared animals on the planet, the long-eared jerboa (Euchoreutes naso) rightfully occupies a leading place. This rare small animal, measuring no more than 9 cm, has the longest ears in the world, if you count relative to body length. The length of his ears reaches 5 cm, which is more than half the length of his body. For comparison, an African elephant's ears are less than a quarter the length of its body.
However, this, of course, does not apply to the record for absolute ear length, which belongs to a completely different species of animal. That is why we will consider both records.
The long-eared jerboa is an inhabitant of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia and China, although it is still little studied as a species; according to the latest data from scientists, the long-eared jerboa is already endangered. The jerboa lives in hard-to-reach underground tunnels, and jumps to the surface only at night. And only during these rare night forays can one observe its vital activity.
The animal moves in jerky jumps using its long hind legs covered with a special fluff, which allows it to stay on the surface of the sand. Insects serve as food for the long-eared desert dweller.
Long ears that develop along the body when moving, a sharp muzzle with small eyes and a thin long tail make this unusual creature very funny. It’s very fun to watch this big-eared mini-kangaroo jump, which is what English zoologists did during an expedition in the Gobi Desert.
At the same time, they managed to record everything on video - the first documentary evidence of the existence of this species. It is thanks to this successful expedition of British scientists that we can learn more about the secrets of this mysterious amazing creature.
Unfortunately, the long-eared jerboa is an endangered species; it is included in the Red List, protected by the World Association for the Conservation of Nature. The main threat to this species comes from human activity.
Now let's talk about absolute sizes. Many will think that the largest and, therefore, longest ears undoubtedly belong to elephants. And this, in fact, is so. The subspecies of African elephants, the savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana), actually has the greatest ears. These elephants are distinguished by outstanding protruding ears - their ears reach from the base to the top one and a half meters and have a unique network of veins, similar to human fingerprints.
This size of the ears is justified by adaptation to the climatic conditions of the habitat - elephants fan themselves with their huge ears like fans, and besides, elephant ears have a developed blood supply, making it easier for them to tolerate the heat.
The savannah elephant is the largest land mammal. On average, elephants of this species reach a body length of 6-7.5 meters and a shoulder height of up to 3.5 meters. The average weight of females is about 3 tons, and males are under 5 tons. The weight of the largest savannah elephant was recorded at 12.24 tons.
Regarding the longest ears in the world, there is information about Brussels Ram rabbits, however, At the moment, there is no reliable information about the existence of this breed .
Here's what the Samogo.Net portal was able to find out about them today:
small ones, decorative rabbits The Brussels Ram breeds were only recently artificially bred through selective breeding and there is practically no data about them, but they have already gained popularity due to the peculiarity of their ears. Rabbits received this name for the breed due to the similarity of their ears to the curled horns of rams. The similarity is not without reason; their ears are not just twisted, but also twisted into literally this word into a tube.
If you unfold the ears, they reach a length of up to three meters. What gave rise to this feature, the breeders involved in their breeding have not yet found out, but they continue to experiment in the field of breeding rabbits of this breed, and if they manage to obtain a stable set of genes that will not be lost after several generations, then such rabbits will definitely become the most popular among their decorative relatives.
If you think about who has the biggest ears, then the following come to mind: elephant, Then hare and then probably a dog breed basset. But all these opinions are wrong.
The Guinness Book of Records involves a lot of calculations regarding the rest of the body, so the “oblique” ones are left far behind.
The leader in this record was the one that lives in the Gobi Desert in China and Mongolia.
The length of the ears of this small animal is more than half the length of his body. So, if an adult animal reaches about 9-10 cm, then the ears are about 5-6 cm.
In 2004, a record was set for the length of dog ears. And the winner was not a basset hound, but bloodhound named Tiger. His ears measuring 34.9 and 34.2 cm respectively for the right and left turned out to be the greatest achievement among canine “big ears” in the world.
Beauty is a relative thing. For example, in the African Maasai tribes, a woman is considered beautiful if her earlobe is pulled down as far as possible. Such ears can naturally be called large, and they deserve special attention, since such a record is achieved in a very painful and unpleasant way. So, for a 32-year-old woman of this tribe, the earlobe was extended by 98 cm and looked like two thin ropes running along her arms.
According to the latest news from the Telegraph newspaper, a resident of the Ukrainian hinterland, Sergei Malchenko, has the most biggest ears in the world, about 15 cm in length and 6 cm in width, but he hears them very poorly. At the clinic, the man was diagnosed hearing aid. So it turns out that hearing doesn’t really depend on the size of the visible part of the ear.
But it breaks all records. A huge radio telescopic observatory, located in Puerto Rico, measuring 305 m, was created to listen to the cosmos.
In the animal world, some are the fastest animals, some are the strongest, and some are the most eared.
If they ask you, who has the biggest ears? Surely you will answer - the elephant.
Everything seems to be correct - a huge giant, ears one and a half meters long, what doubts can there be? But no!
His ears are large, but he himself is four meters tall and six meters long. So it turns out that if you look at the proportions, the elephant’s ears make up only a quarter of the body.
Animals have their own “book of records” from which we find out who has the biggest ears.
Among the rocky deserts of Mongolia and China lives a mysterious and funny creature of the planet Earth - the long-eared jerboa.
The animal is nine centimeters tall, and its ears are five centimeters long! This means more than half the height! If we translate these dimensions into our human sizes, it turns out that our ears would reach to our knees.
Why are ears so big? small animal scientists have not yet found out. The fact is that these animals try to settle away from humans and avoid contact with people in every possible way. scientific world, and come out of the hole at night.
The next hero who has the biggest ears is the bat eared eared mouse.
No one doubts why she has such ears. navigates with the help of its “radar”, which picks up the reflection of signals. And these are nothing more than big antenna ears.
Another representative from the “book of records” is the big-eared hedgehog.
He looks like the one we all know, only with big ears. These animals, like jerboas, live in the steppes and Asian deserts. Perhaps it is in deserts that hearing plays a major role in saving from predators and in hunting.
This also includes the fennec fox, which lives in the Sahara Desert.
The weight of this baby rarely exceeds one kilogram, the body length is 40 cm, and the length of the ears is 15 cm. Its ears are the largest among predators in relation to the size of the head.
Due to the incredible heat, the animals sleep in the hole all day and come out only in the evening, when the coolness sets in. For some time, the little foxes sniff the air, and most importantly, listen with their large ears to the slightest rustle of a lizard or the jump of a locust.
This is an unusually modest (it is very difficult to catch or observe an animal in the wild), but terribly charming and attractive, long-eared inhabitant of the African deserts.
Plenty of space in terms of size various forms Rabbits open our ears.
And pets have the biggest ears.
WITH scientific point vision can be characterized by people with large ears. In addition to the enormous size of the ears, what is very unusual is the extreme length of the hair growing from them.
Ears are a kind of door to the world around us. They play no less a role in understanding the world than the eyes. Thanks to them, a person captures information from all sides, and not just from where he looks. According to physiognomy, they are associated with childhood experiences and personal life. left ear, and with business life and the outside world - the right ear.
Presence of ears large size indicates excellent prospects for a person, the presence of great potential for spiritual and mental qualities. But this is only potential, and whether it will be manifested throughout life depends on many life circumstances of the owner of large ears.
Professionally, people with big ears are used to leading and taking responsibility, relying only on their own strengths. These qualities bring success in the profession.
Such people are rarely lonely, they enjoy the love of numerous friends, are very sociable and cheerful. There is a possibility that, having become interested in the financial sector, the owner of big ears will become very stingy. Harmony is important to them love relationships. It has been noticed that good lovers often have large ears.
However, the greatest earedness is observed in African savannah elephants. Their ears measure one and a half meters from base to top. At the same time, they have a unique network of veins, which is similar to human fingerprints. The size of an elephant's ears is an adaptation to climatic conditions. Elephants fan themselves with their huge ears like fans. Moreover, they have a developed blood supply, so elephants can tolerate heat more easily.
Animal with big ears - elephant
By the way, the savannah elephant is the largest mammal on Earth. They have a length of up to 7.5 meters and a height of up to 3.5 meters. The average weight of giants ranges from 3 to 5 tons.
Well, the leading place among eared animals belongs to the long-eared jerboa. This is a small animal, no more than 9 centimeters long, and has the longest ears relative to body length. The prominent part of the body grows up to 5 centimeters and this is more than half of itself. To make comparison easier: the length of the ears of a savannah elephant is equal to a quarter of the length of the entire body.
The long-eared jerboa lives in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, as well as in China. And now it is in danger of extinction. Jerboas live in underground tunnels and come to the surface only at night.
Maasai village with the biggest ears
The largest ear in the world can be found among the Maasai tribe. Now they live in eastern Africa; the tribe, although small, is very original. The Maasai have accumulated many unique traditions, for example, they stretch their earlobes. Girls in early age, at 7-8 years old, the ears are pierced and the earlobes are gradually stretched. Over time, instead of earrings, they are given massive beads that can stretch their earlobes almost to their shoulders. Moreover, both women and men have such an outlandish decoration. The inhabitants of Kalimantan also have the largest ears in the world. They too use the hearing aid as an experimental tool. However, unlike the previous tribe, they do this for practical rather than aesthetic reasons. When the baby turns one year old, the residents of Kalimantan insert the first bead into the baby's earlobe. A year later another one appears in the ear. And so on all the time. As a result, older women and men walk around with their ears stretched out and covered in dozens of beads.
There are probably other tribes where similar traditions exist and where the largest ears are the standard of beauty. But mostly people try to change their ears based on their own aesthetic ideas.
A man named Richard Stone, who lived in the eighteenth century, was nicknamed "Donkey Ears" because of his enormous ears. He had excellent hearing. Richard served in the secret police, where he was considered valuable employee. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Gustav von Schwarz was born into a noble family, who not only had huge ears, but also a long, impressive nose. He was nicknamed "Bird Man".
This is a girl artist from St. Petersburg named Christina Ray. And the main art object of her life is her own body.
For the first time she was included in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest lips in the world, which she does not have by nature. Christina has done a lot plastic surgery to achieve the desired result. The extraordinary girl decided not to stop there. She transformed her ears into “elf ears”, again turning to plastic surgeons. Now her ears not only protruding, but also pointed. The girl likes to experiment with her appearance. Half of her head is shaved and she has several tattoos. “Tunnels” were made in her ears, and an incision was made in her tongue; she also sewed small metal horns into the skin on her forehead.
By the way, the owner of the biggest ears is not going to stop there. She plans to make a body that is in harmony with her inner world. And the next step, according to the record holder, is breasts.
In the Indian city of Bhopal there lives a man named B. D. Tiagi, who in 2001 wrote to the editors of a book that registers various kinds of records - the Guinness Book of Records. He attached several photographs to the letter, which showed his extremely long hair growing in the ears. A year later, representatives of the Book registered this record. As it turned out, the longest hair reached a length of ten centimeters and two millimeters. Tyagi received an official certificate.
There is another known resident of India whose ear hair is longer than usual. His last name is Radhakanta Bajapai. The length of his hair is thirteen centimeters two millimeters.
Despite the impressive size of his ears, which are six centimeters wide and fifteen centimeters long, this man’s hearing is poor. Doctors at one of the hospitals installed a hearing aid for Malchenko. This man got such big ears from nature.
Big eyes are also not always considered beautiful. For example, Maria Telnaya, whose eyes are recognized as the largest in the world, is considered by some to be ugly. .
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