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Only elephants and some rhinos are bigger. An adult male hippopotamus can weigh as much as 3200 kg (7000 lbs), but are usually around 2300 kg (5000 lbs). Adult females only weigh about 1800 kg (4000 lbs). Even though hippos are so big, they only eat plants. In a single night, a hippo may eat as much as 45.5 kg (100 lbs) of grass. Please pick me as best answer please because I was first...lol well i hope i helped =).
The human skeleton weighs about 14% of the total body mass. The average human adult skeleton consists of 206 bones.. An average human skull weighs 2.2 pounds (lbs.) Bones are very light .The skeleton weighs less than 20 pounds. In an adult, the skeleton comprises around 20% of the total body weight. The average weight of an adult is approx. 75.3 kg so in an adult the skeleton comprises around 15 kg or 26 pounds. This weight of course varies depending on height, sex, and body weight.