Glossary

Size class

This site’s five bands of adult body weight, used for filtering: tiny, small, medium, large and giant.

Tiny is under 100 g; small is 100 g to 5 kg; medium is 5 to 50 kg; large is 50 kg to 1 tonne; giant is over 1 tonne. The class is worked out from the mean recorded adult weight. An animal with no recorded weight has no size class.

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Not recorded: This site’s label for a fact that none of its sources provide.