Top 10: What are the heaviest land carnivores?

10. Grey wolf

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Weight: 80kg

Diet: moose, deer

9. Spotted hyena

Weight: 90kg

Diet: wildebeest, zebra

8. Green anaconda

Weight: 97.5kg

Diet: fish, birds, deer

7. Jaguar

Weight: 158kg

Diet: caiman, deer, capybaras

6. Burmese python

Weight: 183kg*

Diet: rats, deer, goats

*Heaviest recorded specimen

5. African lion

Weight: 250kg

Diet: wildebeest, zebra, carrion

4. Siberian tiger

Weight: 318kg

Diet: deer, pigs

3. Brown bear

Weight: 680kg

Diet: salmon, berries, seaweed

2. Polar bear

Weight: 700kg

Diet: ringed and bearded seals

1. Walrus*

Weight: 1,200kg

Diet: shellfish, occasionally seals

*Walruses spend a third of their lives on land or ice.

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