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Top animals with the largest size difference between male and female “Girl, 150 cm, looking for a guy. If you are shorter than 200 cm, please do not write.” Unrealistic standards, some might say. Good taste, says another. All these are empty sounds compared to the animals of today's top, because the difference in size is measured by several X's! Elephant seal And the elephant seal opens our chart. Here it is difficult to confuse a male with a female. One has an elegant and streamlined figure weighing 1000 kg. Another has three tons of muscle and fat mass. As you've probably already figured out, elephant seals are three times the size of female elephant seals—the largest difference between male and female mammals. Because of such a colossal difference in size, sometimes troubles occur: the male simply crushes the female in the midst of mating. But why such elaborate differences? The thing is that if the elephant seal does not turn itself into a mountain of meat, its chances of reproducing are reduced to a minimum. The mating season of pinnipeds is more like a bloody mess. The males, who have been at sea for almost the entire year, come to land and fight fiercely for every piece of land. The larger the territory of the elephant seal, the more elephant seals will come to it, and the larger the harem of the big-nosed Don Juan! Therefore, size and strength are directly proportional to success on the love front. Nephilic orb weavers Life is exactly the opposite for nephilic orb-weavers, large spiders from Southeast Asia. The females are already running the show here. To contradict them is a death sentence, because the traditions of matriarchy are supported by total superiority in size. Among spiders, the norm is for the lady to be larger than her gentleman. But among these eight-legged animals the difference in size is measured hundreds of times. While the females stretch their slender legs 12 centimeters, spiders just a few millimeters in their abdomen swarm next to them. There is nothing to say about the weight category: tiny males 125 TIMES! lighter than their partners. Only luck and the efficiency of the process save them from being eaten during a date. Deep sea anglerfish Representatives of the deep-sea anglerfish family are also not averse to sinking their teeth into their partner. True, here the arrow turns again - males are famous for their biting ability. But do they have a choice? In the endless darkness of the deep-sea night, kilometers from the surface, the chance of meeting a couple is even lower than finding a match on a dating site. At the same time, the M and F deep-sea angler fish look like a mother and child. The length of females, depending on the species, varies from 5 cm to 1 meter. And the size of males is from 16 mm to 4 cm. For a long time, scientists did not even recognize fish men as men. They thought it was some kind of strange parasite. And they were not far from the truth. The male merges with h