Talk:Largest body part

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Reviewed version: August 14, 2006
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[edit] Largest eyes

The eyes of the Colossal Squid are almost certainly larger than those of the giant squid. [1] Mgiganteus1 10:48, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Quite probably, but not officially. It is worthy of mention. violet/riga (t) 10:51, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
The Guinness Book of World Records is not the official authority on animal size or anything else for that matter. Mgiganteus1 10:53, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
No, but it is just speculation that the Colossal Squid has larger eyes. violet/riga (t) 10:55, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Longest Tail

The claim is made that the giraffe has the longest tail of any animal. However, the reference cited only states that the giraffe has the longest tail of any land mammal

A fair point - corrected. Thanks. violet/riga (t) 13:01, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Longest tongue

The figures in the article for longest tongues don't seem very impressive. I'm sure it depends on where the tongue is measured from (this should be clarified in the article). I'm wondering how Gene Simmons' tongue would rank. Examples here and here. --Ds13 17:28, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

I personally know at least three females with tongues way longer than Annika Irmler, one of them who can touch her tongue to the eye... and at http://www.femaletongue.org (registration required) you will find hundreds of tongues which are longer than the "record"... Links removed

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The "longest tongue" part of "Guinness Word Records" part is a joke...
I agree. Annika Irmler is only "just above average" compared to those with REALLY long tongues, and they aren't THAT uncommon. I'm sure there is an "Annika" in every other school class if people just bothered to measure. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.216.9.238 (talk) 21:20, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Move to ?

This should probably be moved to a more accurate title. How about List of largest body parts, or List of species with the largest body parts, or something like that? — BRIAN0918 • 2006-08-09 19:39

Depends how it develops. If I can make it more prose-like I will, but it might not work that way. violet/riga (t) 20:06, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The longest tongue for a female ???

What's with this item "The longest tongue for a female"... If one goes to the link at that reference (ref. 12), the girl's name is different than that cited in the article???

As an aside unrelated to this article, at that link itself the girl claims to have the "world's longest tongue" for some reason... what's with that? Guinness cites one fairly recently that is much longer, as pointed out in the article.

The first point is explained by some anonymous vandalism that changed the name in the article. The second point is that, at the time the referenced article was written, she did have the longest tongue; the Guinness reference is about a more recent find. violet/riga (t) 20:31, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] humans have largest primate penis?

Now I can't find the reference, but I thought that humans were known to have the largest penis relative to body size of any primate which is also notable because humans unlike most mammals have no baculum. -- M0llusk 23:56, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

For you perhaps.

-G

Actually I believe it is either the Gorilla or the Chimpanze. Of course my "source" is a wall poster in the laboratory of the computer game Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude, but I am sure there was some fact in there somewhere. Enigmatical 01:15, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

The statement, the human male has the longest and thickest penis of any primate, is attributed to Small, Meredith F. (1993) Female choices: Sexual behavior of female primates. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, 1993 pp. 109 in Sexual Organs and Heterochronic Theory. Now, who can find a copy of the book? :-) -- Donald Albury(Talk) 02:05, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I've heard that humans have the largest breasts, too, but I've forgotten the source. Seems pretty accurate though, based on empirical analysis. --Xiaphias 11:36, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Good article nomination

This article is really more a list than an article as it currently stands. As such, it fails the first criteria for a Good Article, that of being well written, as described in Wikipedia:Embedded_list. Given that this is a very large problem, I have failed the article. MLilburne 19:46, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] In proportion to body size

The record for the longest tongue with all animals seems correct only for mammals. The following article claims the tongue of some chameleons is even longer in proportion. http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn10721&feedId=online-news_rss20 So far I couldn't find any reference to long chameleon tongues. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.78.165.201 (talk) 11:04, 7 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Largest Brain in Proportion to body size

Which animal is it? any ideas? --nocturnal omnivorous canine 06:36, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Ha, that's a coincidence. I just added that info. --Xiaphias 11:32, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Guinness World record links are dead

All of them lead to a "page cannot be found" error page. Just thought I'd let you know. Caim 16:16, 22 May 2007 (UTC)