SortStack #3626 — 2036-05-13

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. An adult house mouse 19 g

   Male mice sing ultrasonic courtship songs too high-pitched for humans to hear, with repeated phrases like birdsong.

2. A medium pomegranate 290 g

   A single pomegranate can hold over 600 juicy seeds, called arils, and the fruit stars in myths from Greece to Persia.

3. An adult Chihuahua 1.8 kg

   The world's smallest dog breed is named after a Mexican state and descends from the Techichi, a companion dog of the Toltecs.

4. A whole Thanksgiving turkey 7.5 kg

   Wild turkeys can fly at up to 90 km/h in short bursts; the broad-breasted domestic birds on holiday tables cannot fly at all.

5. An adult male grizzly bear 270 kg

   Before hibernation a grizzly can pack on more than a kilogram of fat per day, entering the den far heavier than in spring.

6. A Thoroughbred racehorse 570 kg

   At full gallop a racehorse's heart pumps roughly 240 liters of blood per minute — ten times its resting rate.

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