Smallest Animals
                      SMALLEST ANIMALS
• Estimating just 0.3 in (7.9 mm) long, (Paedocypris) 
is the littlest fish. Found in the peat marsh 
timberlands of Indonesia's Sumatra Island, they can 
endure outrageous dry spell due, to some degree, 
to their little size
 
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• Slim Blind Snakes 
• Slim Blind Snakes or Thread Snakes (Leptotyphlopidae) are 
believed to be the world's littlest snakes at about 4.3 in (11 cm) 
long. Found in North and South America, Africa, and Asia, there 
are 87 unique types of Slender Blind snakes. They are visually 
impaired; nonvenomous snakes adjusted to tunneling that feed 
on ants and termites. Most species suck out the substance of 
creepy crawly bodies and dispose of the skin.
 
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• Kitti's Hog-Nosed Bat 
• The Kitti's Hog-nosed Bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai) or 
Bumblebee Bat from Thailand and Burma is the littlest bat, 
estimating just 1.1–1.6 in (30–40 mm) long and weighing just 
0.05–0.07 oz (1.5–2 g). It is about a similar size as a honey bee 
and has an unmistakable pig-like nose. It lives in limestone 
gives in along waterways, with a normal of 100 people living in 
a solitary cavern.
 
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•  Honey bee Hummingbird 
• The Bee Hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae) is the littlest winged 
animal and the littlest warm-blooded vertebrate. It quantifies 
2.2 in (5.7 cm) long and weighs 0.06 oz (1.8 g). Its body size 
isn't the main noteworthy thing about these winged animals 
however, as at just 0.8 in (2 cm) wide and 1.1 in (3 cm) 
profound, their homes are similarly little!
 
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• Speckled Padloper Tortoise
• The world’s smallest turtle is the Speckled Padloper Tortoise 
(Homopus signatus) from South Africa. Males measure 2.4–3.1 
in (6–8 cm), while females, which are slightly bigger, measure 
up to almost 4 in (10 cm). The tiny turtles feed on small plants 
they forage from the rocky outcrops they call home, also using 
the tiny crevices as hiding places from predators.
 
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