The undisputed record holder in the category “largest ears in the world” is the African elephant, you might say. Yes, of course, it’s a huge animal, just a giant and a snake that’s as much as half a meter long. But, in fact, in relation to its overall size, they are not so large.
The African elephant is about four meters tall and about six meters long, or even more. And if you compare the size of the body with the span of the ears, then they turn out to be no more than a quarter, which is not so much among representatives of the wild.
The first place in ear size can be safely awarded to several animals, inhabitants of deserts and steppes.
fennec- a desert fox that lives in the Sahara Desert. Among predators, its ears are the largest in relation to the size of its head.
long-eared bat - the owner of very large ears in relation to the body. They serve as antennas for her to catch the reflection of signals with the help of which she navigates.
Long-eared jerboa - undoubtedly the champion among the “eared guys”. His ears are half the length of his body. If a person had such ears, they would hang almost to their knees.
Among pets Basset dogs and rabbits have the largest ears. But the winner and record holder in the category “biggest ears” was a bloodhound dog named Tiger.
The largest ears in humans
Representatives of the Masai tribe have the largest ears in the world. They deliberately, from childhood, increase the size of their ears by stretching them out. This is their fashion and a tribute to tradition.
Representatives of the Kalimontana tribe behave in approximately the same way.
At the moment, the owner of the largest ears in the world, according to the press, is Ukrainian Sergei Malchenko. The length of his ears is 15 and the width is 6 centimeters.
If you think about who has the biggest ears, then the following come to mind: elephant, Then hare, and then probably a dog breed basset. But all these opinions are wrong.
The Guinness Book of Records involves a lot of calculations regarding the rest of the body, so the “oblique” ones are left far behind.
The leader in this record was the one that lives in the Gobi Desert in China and Mongolia.
The length of the ears of this small animal is more than half the length of his body. So, if an adult animal reaches about 9-10 cm, then the ears are about 5-6 cm.
In 2004, a record was set for the length of dog ears. And the winner was not a basset hound, but bloodhound named Tiger. His ears measuring 34.9 and 34.2 cm respectively for the right and left turned out to be the greatest achievement among canine “big ears” in the world.
Beauty is a relative thing. For example, in the African Maasai tribes, a woman is considered beautiful if her earlobe is pulled down as far as possible. Such ears can naturally be called large, and they deserve special attention, since such a record is achieved in a very painful and unpleasant way. So, for a 32-year-old woman of this tribe, the earlobe was extended by 98 cm and looked like two thin ropes running along her arms.
According to the latest news from the Telegraph newspaper, a resident of the Ukrainian hinterland, Sergei Malchenko, has the most biggest ears in the world, about 15 cm in length and 6 cm in width, but he hears them very poorly. At the clinic, the man was fitted with a hearing aid. So it turns out that hearing doesn’t really depend on the size of the visible part of the ear.
But it breaks all records. A huge radio telescopic observatory, located in Puerto Rico, measuring 305 m, was created to listen to the cosmos.
From a scientific point of view, it is possible to characterize people with large ears. In addition to the enormous size of the ears, what is very unusual is the extreme length of the hair growing from them.
What do big ears mean?
The science of physiognomy claims that a person’s large ears indicate a number of his qualities. They may indicate that their owner is prone to global thinking and philosophy, while he is kind and sociable. Such people live an interesting life, which is eventful. In a family, a person with big ears is compliant and non-conflict.Ears are a kind of door to the world around us. They play no less a role in understanding the world than the eyes. Thanks to them, a person captures information from all sides, and not just from where he looks. According to physiognomy, the left ear is associated with childhood experiences and personal life, and the right ear is associated with business life and the outside world.
The presence of large ears indicates excellent prospects for a person, the presence of great potential for spiritual and spiritual qualities. But this is only potential, and whether it will be manifested throughout life depends on many life circumstances of the owner of large ears.
Professionally, people with big ears are used to leading and taking responsibility, relying only on their own strengths. These qualities bring success in the profession.
Such people are rarely lonely, they enjoy the love of numerous friends, are very sociable and cheerful. There is a possibility that, having become interested in the financial sector, the owner of big ears will become very stingy. Harmony in love relationships is important to them. It has been noticed that good lovers often have large ears.
Animal has the largest ears in the world
It may seem to many that the elephant has the largest ears among the representatives of the animal world. However, this is not quite true. Compared to the size of the body, the ears of an elephant are very miniature.However, the greatest earedness is observed in African savannah elephants. Their ears measure one and a half meters from base to top. At the same time, they have a unique network of veins, which is similar to human fingerprints. The size of an elephant's ears is an adaptation to climatic conditions. Elephants fan themselves with their huge ears like fans. Moreover, they have a developed blood supply, so elephants can tolerate heat more easily.
Animal with big ears - elephant
By the way, the savannah elephant is the largest mammal on Earth. They have a length of up to 7.5 meters and a height of up to 3.5 meters. The average weight of giants ranges from 3 to 5 tons.
Well, the leading place among eared animals belongs to the long-eared jerboa. This is a small animal, no more than 9 centimeters long, and has the longest ears relative to body length. The prominent part of the body grows up to 5 centimeters and this is more than half of itself. To make comparison easier: the length of the ears of a savannah elephant is equal to a quarter of the length of the entire body.
The long-eared jerboa lives in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, as well as in China. And now it is in danger of extinction. Jerboas live in underground tunnels and come to the surface only at night.
The most eared peoples of the world
Some people are not at all happy with the ears Mother Nature gave them. And they strive by all known means to increase them to large sizes. To a civilized person this seems wild, but some tribes have the largest ears in the world and changing natural sizes is the norm for them. These are the most eared tribes in the world.Maasai village with the biggest ears
The largest ear in the world can be found among the Maasai tribe. Now they live in eastern Africa; the tribe, although small, is very original. The Maasai have accumulated many unique traditions, for example, they stretch their earlobes. Girls at an early age, at 7-8 years old, have their ears pierced and their lobes gradually stretched. Over time, instead of earrings, they are given massive beads that can stretch their earlobes almost to their shoulders. Moreover, both women and men have such an outlandish decoration. The inhabitants of Kalimantan also have the largest ears in the world. They too use the hearing aid as an experimental tool. However, unlike the previous tribe, they do this for practical rather than aesthetic reasons. When the baby turns one year old, the residents of Kalimantan insert the first bead into the baby's earlobe. A year later another one appears in the ear. And so on all the time. As a result, older women and men walk around with their ears stretched out and covered in dozens of beads.
There are probably other tribes where similar traditions exist and where the largest ears are the standard of beauty. But mostly people try to change their ears based on their own aesthetic ideas.
People with big ears
Ears are not the most beautiful and important part of our body. They don't attract as much attention as the eyes, lips or nose. Not meeting generally accepted standards, the size and shape of the ears can ruin the life of their owner. However, if the ears are extremely large, a person in childhood is nicknamed Ushastik, Cheburashka or Elephant. But there are countries where such ears are considered a piquant detail. It is known that in Japan, girls with large protruding ears always have more fans. 
A man named Richard Stone, who lived in the eighteenth century, was nicknamed "Donkey Ears" because of his enormous ears. He had excellent hearing. Richard served in the secret police, where he was considered a valuable employee. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Gustav von Schwarz was born into a noble family, who not only had huge ears, but also a long, impressive nose. He was nicknamed "Bird Man".
The largest artificial ears in the world
Note to all those with protruding ears: against the background of such personalities, a slight prominence of ears seems like a trifle that does not deserve any attention. However, some people who have been blessed with normal ears try to change them with piercings or plastic surgery.This is a girl artist from St. Petersburg named Christina Ray. And the main art object of her life is her own body.
She first entered the Guinness Book of Records for biggest lips in the world which he does not possess by nature. Christina underwent many plastic surgeries to achieve the desired result. The extraordinary girl decided not to stop there. She transformed her ears into “elf ears”, again turning to plastic surgeons. Now her ears are not only protruding, but also pointed. The girl likes to experiment with her appearance. Half of her head is shaved and she has several tattoos. “Tunnels” were made in her ears, and an incision was made in her tongue; she also sewed small metal horns into the skin on her forehead.
By the way, the owner of the biggest ears is not going to stop there. She plans to make a body that is in harmony with her inner world. And the next step, according to the record holder, is breasts.
People with long ear hair
It is known that hair grows, including in the ears. Anyone who has this extremely lush vegetation is forced to fight with it throughout his life. However, there are those who have made this feature their property. 
In the Indian city of Bhopal there lives a man named B. D. Tyagi, who in 2001 wrote to the editors of the book that registers various kinds of records - the Guinness Book of Records. He attached several photographs to the letter, which showed his extremely long hair growing in his ears. A year later, representatives of the Book registered this record. As it turned out, the longest hair reached a length of ten centimeters and two millimeters. Tyagi received an official certificate.
There is another known resident of India whose ear hairs are longer than usual. His last name is Radhakanta Bajapai. The length of his hair is thirteen centimeters two millimeters.
The man with the biggest ears in the world
In one of the Ukrainian villages in the Lviv region there lives a man whose ears are recognized as the largest in the world. We are talking about Sergei Malchenko. In his village of Barilov, only four hundred and twenty-seven people live, and Sergei is a famous person there. However, he is popular not only in his native village; the man arouses the interest of residents of neighboring villages, cities and even regions. The local press does not leave him alone either. 
Despite the impressive size of his ears, which are six centimeters wide and fifteen centimeters long, this man’s hearing is poor. Doctors at one of the hospitals installed a hearing aid for Malchenko. This man got such big ears from nature.
Big eyes are also not always considered beautiful. For example, Maria Telnaya, whose eyes are recognized as the largest in the world, is considered by some to be ugly. .
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In the wild, vast world of animals there are a huge number of record holders in various categories, the number of which is growing every year. The fastest, biggest, smallest, fattest, funniest... Owners of the very best ears, eyes, tails, teeth and other parts of the body. Today you will find out who has the longest nose, biggest ears, biggest eyes and longest teeth environment of all animals on the planet.
Who has the longest nose?
In the competition for the title of animal with the longest nose, the first place, of course, takes. Although the elephant's trunk is not exactly a nose, but a continuation of the upper lip and nose, which are fused together. The long trunk of the giant animal has two nostrils through which the elephant breathes. And the muscular trunk, which reaches almost to the ground, has other purposes: you can blow a trumpet into it, pour water on it, like a shower hose, or use it as a hand for collecting food and carrying objects. An elephant can hold eight liters of water in its trunk. And the sound that an elephant makes with its trunk can be heard for several kilometers.
Who has the biggest ears?
The African elephant has the largest ears on the planet (1.2-1.5 m wide). On hot days, he uses them like a fan, thereby protecting himself from the hot rays of the sun.
But the little jerboa competes with the giant elephant. After all, if you measure the size of the ears in relation to the size of the body, then the prize for the largest ears will be given to the rodent long-eared jerboa, a resident of Mongolia and China. The jerboa's ears reach five centimeters, despite the fact that the length of the animal's entire body is only 9 cm. In addition to long ears, the jerboa also has a long, up to 30 cm, tail with a brush at the end, which helps the rodent balance when jumping, since the animal jumps on distances that are 20 times the length of his body.
Who has the biggest eyes?
There are many animals on our planet whose appearance is very funny. One of these funny and unusual animals is. It is this little monkey that holds the record for the world's largest eyes. The animal is no larger than the palm of your hand, weighs less than 150 grams, and has eyes with a diameter of 16 cm. Tarsiers are nocturnal, and during the day they sleep soundly. And as soon as dusk comes, the monkeys quickly jump from the branches, catching the insects that they love to eat. And their huge eyes help them in hunting.
Who haslongest teeth?
A handsome man, or, as he is also called, a sea unicorn, who lives in the waters of the Arctic Ocean, boasts a long tooth. Its tusk tooth reaches 3 meters, and this miracle of nature weighs about ten kilograms.
And the narwhal will not be able to bite with such a tooth, because the inhabitant of the icy seas uses its tusk not for fighting, but for searching for food on the seabed. Ideally straight and at the same time twisted into a thin spiral, the three-meter narwhal tooth is very strong and flexible. But if it happens that a tooth breaks, it will never grow back.
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