World’s Smallest Dog: 12.4 cm (4.9-inch) tall
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 Danka 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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Ducky held by his master |
World's Smallest Snake: 10.1 cm (4-inch) long
Leptotyphlops carlae is the world's smallest species of snake, with adults averaging just less than 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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Leptotyphlops carlae and a quarter dollar coin |
World’s Smallest Fish: 7.9 mm (0.3-inch) long
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.
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Paedocypris progenetica, The Smallest Fish |
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.
World’s Smallest Horse: 43.18 cm (17-inch) tall
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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Thumbellina, The Dwarf Horse |
World's Smallest Hamster: 2.5 cm (0.9-inch) tall
Only slightly bigger than a 50p piece, Pee Wee 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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Pee Wee and a coin |
World's Smallest Chameleon: 1.2 cm (0.5-inch) long
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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| Brookesia minima on a human finger |
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).
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| Smallest Vechur Cattle, next to a 6 years old HF cross-breed cow |
World's Smallest Seahorse: 16 mm (0.6-inch) long
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. denise lives in the tropical waters of the western Pacific Ocean, between 13 and 90 meters beneath the surface.
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| Hippocampus denise, 1.6 cm/16 mm: measured with a ruler |
World’s Smallest Monkey: 5-6 Inch long (Excluding tail)
This monkey is the smallest monkey in the world and very funny. Very small because so much is similar to human fingers, and this may seem very strange because usually the size of a monkey quite striking. The length of the funny monkey is only about 5 to 6 inch in long excluding tail.
This smallest monkey in this world is only live in the forest area of Ecuador and Brazil. The monkeys are small and cute usually live in groups of 2 to 6 tails only.
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| Pygmy marmoset, as long as your finger |
These animals must be very funny, if we can make our pets. But imagine how much you should pay for this? This average price is about $1500 USD. So Maybe You can consider buying this animal if you have that amount of money just for pets. (*/JCS)
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