Sitting on the train and pondering:

Largest wild UK mammal? Red deer? Or poss a wild horse breed?
Largest wild UK reptile? Adder?
Largest wild UK amphibian? Common toad?
Largest wild UK bird? Buick swan or Brent goose?
Largest wild UK freshwater fish? Pike or do we have a large native carp?

No googling yet. What have I got wrong, any other ideas or classes? Largest by mass for consistency.

Largest spider roper?

Mammal: Usually quoted as Red Deer, I don’t think any of the wild horse breeds are as large.
Bird? Sea Eagle? Or are they a bit skinny? 🙂

Is ‘largest’ by weight or size?

Largest by mass.
Or weight for thr earthbound amongst us 😉

Grass snakes grow bigger than adders,carp are not a native species so if you count them,the largest mammal will be an elephant somewhere.

Catfish?

Baby Robin.

African or European Brent Goose?

One of the swans will be the heaviest bird I would have thought but a sea eagle is the physically biggest – just huge when you see them fly.

Do whales count?

The whale I met was OK at addition, but multiplication was a no-no

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The whale I met was OK at addition, but multiplication was a no-no

Well, of course not. That’s not the intended porpoise of a whale.

CFH, isnt it bed time in Singapore?

The whale I met was OK at addition, but multiplication was a no-no

However their baleen logic is impeccable.

Aren’t grass snakes much bigger than adders?

Nah, time for a nice spot of tea, actually!

Or, more to the point, time for another meeting… (Yawning heavily as jetlag kicks in….)

What category is Nessie in?

Largest wild UK freshwater fish? Pike or do we have a large native carp?

Carp (mirror) – 65lb 14oz
Catfish 62lb 0oz
Pike – 46lb 13oz

Source British Record Fish Comittee

Giant bustard or maybe capercallie for the bird or maybe even golden egale

I thought there were bigger salmon than that ?

The Great Bustard is Britain’s ‘biggest bird’, edging out the Mute Swan. Sea eagles have the largest wingspan.
FEMALE Grass Snakes are Britain’s largest Reptiles, males much smaller but to be honest I’ve no idea as to whether they come up smaller than Adders of any sex…

Things could be on the change with regards birds etc. How are we doing for Storks and Cranes lately?

As for the horses, I don’t think that they are native. Dartmoor/Beacons ponies are feral.

What about largest native carnivore?

Wels catfish isn’t a native either.

What about largest native carnivore?

Scottish wildcat?

~Are badgers and foxes omnivores?

Seriously, seals, dolphins, killer whales, sei whale etc.

If they’re in British coastal waters that counts as native, right?

No Marine mammals – too many foreigners.

basking shark?

Do insects tip carnivores over into omnivores or does it need to be vegetative?

That’s not a freshwater fish now is it phil? 😉

If they’re born here aren’t they automatically entitled to the equivalent of citizenship though? 😉

stoner… you’ve obviously never been fishing in the basingstoke canal!

nothing but supermarket trollies live in the basingstoke canal.

stoner – insect as are animals so an insectivore is a carnivore

If they’re born here aren’t they automatically entitled to the equivalent of citizenship though?

not if I have my Way

Stoner BNP*

(*British Naturalist Party)

trollies, pike, perch and basking sharks. honest guv!

What about mushrooms TJ?

They’re not vegetables.

Scottish wildcat?
~Are badgers and foxes omnivores?

Ok so I meant predator. Wildcat > badger? In terms of mass, perhaps not. I dunno, never seen a wildcat.

EDIT: Wiki suggests wild cats go up to about the size of the biggest domestic cats. You know, the freakishly large ones that people sometimes have.

ladies and whiney middleclass cockbags i present to you for your consideration:

the beast of bodmin.

badger def more massive than a wildcat. pansy pussy.

Which reminds me, thinking of that thread that went “who first thought drinking cows milk…” etc… premise went something like at earlier stages of our evoultion we ate X so therefore to do so in later evolutionary stage didnt involve a “jump”…

But…

Which madman first fell face-first into a well lathered badger and said “You know, we should do this every morning…”? It sure as hell cant have been an evolutionary development….

Which madman first fell face-first into a well lathered badger and said “You know, we should do this every morning…”?

I’m sorry – what?