Most animals can travel in the belly of passenger planes, but Lufthansa also has a fleet of 18 freight aircraft which can accommodate all shapes and size of animal -- be it hippopotamuses en route to the Philippines from Israel or rhinos and even crocodiles.

CNN: All creatures great and small at Frankfurt's Animal Lounge

It is also nothing short of scandalous to suggest that an animal of that size was 'lethal'.

BBC: Animal Underworld

Right whales have one of the smallest brain-to-body-size ratios of any cetacean, the longest penis in the animal kingdom (averaging more than seven feet or 2.3m) and testes with a combined weight of one tonne.

ECONOMIST: The lives of whales

Made of organza with a satin lining, it was designed by the furrier Dennis Basso and will be, of course, adjusted to petite animal size.

WSJ: Organza and Bowties for Puppy Wedding

He will often start off showing hysterical clients a photo book of "before" images--dogs with tumors the size of basketballs, cats with paralyzed hind legs--and "after" images of the healthy, perky animal.

FORBES: Miracle Worker

They capture the essence of animal antibiotics in molecules that are onequarter the size and can be made with standard chemistry techniques.

FORBES: Technology

They capture the essence of animal antibiotics in molecules that are one quarter the size and can be made with standard chemistry techniques.

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