These prehistoric giants grow to more than three meters long and weigh up to 100kg.
The largest units measure 15 feet by 60 feet long and weigh up to 50 tons.
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And in a room full of hungry men who weigh up to 320 pounds, it is always serious business.
European eagles owls can weigh up to 9lbs, and there are records of eagle owls living up to 85 years old in captivity.
Pilot whales, which are actually dolphins by classification, can grow to over seven metres, weigh up to 3.5 tonnes and generally prefer deep waters.
Once sidled up to the building, a crew uses a scissor lift to unload giant enclosures made of Lexan and aluminum, dubbed Universal Load Devices (ULDs), which can weigh up to two tons each.
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He fishes in Canada, shoots grouse in Scotland, and hunts big game in Africa, with a bow particularly Cape buffalo, which weigh up to two thousand pounds, are famously ornery, and sometimes gore hunters with their giant horns.
The size of the game terrain would normally be limited by available system resources, since just the contours of a single map can weigh up to 128MB -- too burdensome for most systems to store, process and display in real-time.
And as such it is forming one of the key pieces of evidence as ministers weigh up whether to push ahead with what would be a controversial policy.
And what ambitious scale it is: each horse sculpture can weigh anything up to a ton (1, 000 kilograms), is 16-17 hands (around 5ft 11ins) tall and can easily take the weight of a "jockey" or two.
Planning Minister Deputy Rob Duhamel said planners had to weigh up conservation concerns with pressure to support the local economy.
Professor Derrick Pounder, an expert in forensic medicine at the University of Dundee, said people travelling to regions where rabies was a problem had to weigh up whether it was sensible to get vaccinated before setting off on their travels.
"I think it is important to have a little break and weigh up my options and decide what to do next, " he explained.
However, Mr Baggott said officers had to weigh up whether intervening would create a greater disturbance.
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Their film also invites its audience to weigh up the benefits of privatisation versus public ownership.
"I've got a few options to weigh up, " he told BBC Radio Manchester.
However, manufacturers will have to weigh up Android's popularity before making a move.
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Solving them requires thought, tact and an ability to weigh up the circumstances.
He urged those affected not to lose hope and said that no one would be left destitute, but that the government would have to weigh up each case.
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He said the minister had reached the conclusion that the heritage park was "operationally viable" on a false basis and had failed to weigh up all the evidence properly.
Louise Ellman, the Labour MP who chairs the committee, said the issue was "difficult", but she and her colleagues wanted to weigh up all the arguments about the best way forward.
Often we are forced to weigh up multiple factors, assess multiple probabilities, none of which we can ever be 100% sure about, and then somehow reach a decision that we can reconcile ourselves with, for better or worse.
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And with Sheridan not expected to be back in action until late February after undergoing surgery on the dislocated shoulder he suffered playing for Sale in October, Johnson will have to weigh up the merits of the other props at his disposal.
That is the question that a squadron of nervous Republicans are asking themselves as they weigh up whether or not to jump into the fray, an undertaking that will cost them hundreds of millions of dollars and prove intrusive, exhausting and quite possibly humiliating.
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Delve says he "would relish" staying at Kingsholm, but his contract runs out this summer and he would have to "weigh up whether that is an option or not".
It will weigh 2.95lbs and offer up to six hours of continuous use, TechSpot reports.
"I'm getting some messages to try to persuade me, but I am trying to weigh it all up at the moment, " she added.
It is Mr. Stoelk's first time reporting to a boss 20 years his junior, but he said that didn't weigh on his decision to sign up.
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