Tuber magnatum pound ($2200–$4800 per kg); as of December 2009 they were being sold at $14,203.50 per kilogram. In November 1999, what was then the largest truffle in the world was found near Buje, Croatia. The truffle weighed and was entered in the "Guinness Book of Records". The record price paid for a single white truffle was set in December 2007, when Macau casino owner Stanley Ho paid $330,000 (£165,000) for a specimen weighing . One of the largest truffles found in decades, it was unearthed near Pisa, Italy, and sold at an auction held simultaneously in Macau, Hong Kong, and Florence.
Largest organisms elephant ("Loxodonta africana"), of the order Proboscidea, is the largest living land animal. A native of various open habitats in sub-Saharan Africa, this elephant is commonly born weighing about . The largest elephant ever recorded was shot in Angola in 1974. It was a male measuring from trunk to tail and lying on its side in a projected line from the highest point of the shoulder to the base of the forefoot, indicating a standing shoulder height of . This male had a computed weight of 12.25 tonnes. The heaviest living animals are all cetaceans, and thus also the largest