Talk:Largest body part

message: Shouldn't this page include records made by animals from prehistory? If not, then wouldn't it be more fitting to rename it "Largest body parts in living species" or something along those lines?
Ex. Longest neck belongs to Tanystropheus or Tallest backbone belongs to Spinosaurus.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.10.68.240 (talk) 22:26, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Ancient records

message: The eyes of the Colossal Squid are almost certainly larger than those of the giant squid.  Mgiganteus1 10:48, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Quite probably, but not officially.  It is worthy of mention.  violet/riga (t) 10:51, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: No, but it is just speculation that the Colossal Squid has larger eyes.  violet/riga (t) 10:55, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Largest eyes

message: 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)
thread_title: Longest Tail

message: 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)
thread_title: Move to ?

message: 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)
thread_title:  The longest tongue for a female ??? 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  humans have largest primate penis? 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Good article nomination 

message: 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)
thread_title: In proportion to body size

message: Which animal is it? any ideas? --nocturnal  omnivorous canine 06:36, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ha, that's a coincidence.  I just added that info. --Xiaphias 11:32, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Largest Brain in Proportion to body size 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Guinness World record links are dead 

message: I removed this, but it got put back in, because it had a source. I'm kinda new to this, so not entirely sure of the ettiquite here, but I certainly don't think it belongs here. There's one random fact included at the end of the opening spiel, and it's totally out of place. If it belongs in the article at all, it should be in a section further down, categorised somehow. However, the link it provides is dead, and it provides one piece of information about the largest thing of one particular type (organ) for one type of animal (mammals). Is that really needed? If it is, where's the rest of them? What's the largest bone of a mammal? Largest blood vessel? What about for birds? Fish? Reptiles? Etc.
If I went to World's_largest_cities and added "Sau Paulo is the largest city in the southern hemisphere", including a source, into the opening paragraph, how long do you reckon it would last? Hopey dishwasher (talk) 19:27, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "The largest organ of a mammal is its skin" 

message: Shouldn't it be rather a volume than a weight mentioned? --89.14.98.224 (talk) 14:39, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: We just have to go with what the sources say. The source cited gives a weight, not a volume. DoctorKubla (talk) 17:01, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mouth of blue whale 

message: This is a list, not an article. Widefox; talk 12:32, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  List article 

message: I have moved the following comment here from the article page for discussion (I have regularized the citation):
This is one source, while the preponderance of sources seem to agree that the skin in the largest organ. The referenced source relies on defining the skeleton and the muscles of the body (as a whole) as organs. Anyway, let's see if we can reach a consensus on whether and how to use that source. - Donald Albury 17:28, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Largest human organ 

message: What is even the purpose of this article? It doesn't seem to have any cohesive direction. Amazincredible 14:32, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  this is a silly page 

message: I believe the scaly foot gastropod has a larger proportional heart size according to this study:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4470333/
which concludes 4% ratio. This current article source #21 cites dog heart ratios are 0.8%. 2601:2C1:37F:C075:9137:3B49:B459:4C59 (talk) 06:08, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heart-to-body-size 

message: I really dont get the obsession with animal penises in this page. Like, it looks to be the most talked about body part here and for what reason? This whole article needs to be reworked but, I just wanna know what animals have long legs or something, not testicals. CheeseyHead (talk) 21:12, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why are there so many mentions of penises?