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World’s Smallest Dog: 12.4 cm (4.9-inch) tall |
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At 1.4 pounds and 4.9 inches tall, Ducky, a yappy
short-coat Chihuahua from Charlton (Massachusetts, USA), holds the
Guinness World Record for the world's smallest living dog (by height).
Ducky succeeds Dank Kordak of Slovakia, a Chihuahua who measured 5.4
inches tall. The smallest dog ever, according to Guinness, was a dwarf
Yorkshire terrier who stood 2.8 inches tall. |
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World's Smallest Snake: 10.1 cm (4-inch) long |
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Leptotyphlops carlae is the world's smallest species
of snake, with adults averaging just under four inches in length. Found
on the Caribbean island of Barbados, the species --which is as thin as a
spaghetti noodle and small enough to rest comfortably on a U.S.
quarter-- was discovered by Blair Hedges. |
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World’s Smallest Fish: 7.9 mm (0.3-inch) long |
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On January 2006, the world's smallest fish was
discovered on the Indonesian island of Sumatra: a member of the carp
family of fish, the Paedocypris progenetica. It is the world's smallest
vertebrate or backboned animal; only 7.9 mm (0.3 inches) long.
The title, however, is contested by 6.2 mm (0.2 in) long male anglerfish
Photocorynus spiniceps (not technically a fish but a sexual parasite)
and the 7 mm (0.27 in) long male stout infantfish Schindleria
brevipinguis. |
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World’s Smallest Horse: 43.18 cm (17-inch) tall |
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The little horse was born to Paul and Kay Goessling,
who specialize in breeding miniature horses, but even for the breed
Thumbelina is particularly small: she is thought to be a dwarf-version
of the breed. At just 60 lb and 17-inch tall, the five-year-old
Thumbelina is the world’s smallest horse. |
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World’s Smallest Cat: 15.5 cm (6.1-inch) high and 49 cm (19.2-inch) long |
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Meet Mr. Peebles. He lives in central Illinois, is
two years old, weighs about three pounds and is the world's smallest
cat! The cat's small stature was verified by the Guinness Book of World
Records on 2004. |
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World's Smallest Hamster: 2.5 cm (0.9-inch) tall |
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Only slightly bigger than a 50p piece, PeeWee is the
smallest hamster in the world. Weighing less than an ounce, the golden
hamster stopped growing when he was three weeks old - his five brothers
and sisters went on to measure between 4in and 5in. |
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World's Smallest Chameleon: 1.2 cm (0.5-inch) long |
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The Brookesia Minima is the world's smallest species
of chameleon. This one is just half an inch. Found on the rainforest
floor of Nosy Be Island off the north-west coast of Madagascar, females
tend to be larger than males. |
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World's Smallest Lizard:
16 mm (0.6-inch) long |
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So small it can curl up on a dime or stretch out on a quarter, a typical
adult of the species, whose scientific name is Sphaerodactylus ariasae
is only about 16 millimeters long, or about three quarters of an inch,
from the tip of the snout to the base of the tail. It shares the title
of "smallest" with another lizard species named Sphaerodactylus
parthenopion, discovered in 1965 in the British Virgin Islands. |
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World’s
Smallest Cattle: 81 cm (31-inch) height
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The world’s smallest cattle is a rare breed of an Indian zebu called the
Vechur cow. The average height of this breed of cattle is 31 to 35
inches (81 to 91 cm). The photo above shows a 16 year old Vechur cattle
as compared to a 6 year old HF cross-breed cow. |
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World's Smallest
Seahorse: 16 mm (0.6-inch) long |
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The creature, known as Hippocampus denise, is typically just 16
millimeters long - smaller than most fingernails. Some were found to be
just 13 mm long. H. denies lives in the tropical waters of the western
Pacific Ocean, between 13 and 90 meters beneath the surface. |