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.
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.
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. 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.
World’s Smallest Cat: 15.5 cm (6.1-inch) high and 49 cm
(19.2-inch) long
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.
World's Smallest Hamster: 2.5 cm (0.9-inch) tall
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.
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.
World's Smallest Lizard: 16 mm (0.6-inch) long
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.
World’s Smallest Cattle: 81 cm (31-inch) height
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.
World's Smallest Seahorse: 16 mm (0.6-inch) long
The creature, known as Hippocampus denise, is typically just
16 millimetres 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 metres beneath the
surface.
Source : http://www.wonders-world.com
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