It's the Biggest and Smallest Mammals in the World

Lang – July 13, 2017

What is the smallest and most petite mammal in the world? (Image: nationalgeograpic.com )

Science - For most mammals, it seems to all agree if the giraffe is unmatchable . But for most large and smallest mammals, perhaps not many know.

For most large mammals living on Earth today, he is the blue whale ( blue whale ). For the uninitiated, though living in the sea, blue whales are not belonging to fish, but mammals.

Why? Because they breathe with the lungs and breed with childbirth instead of laying.

Adult blue whales can grow to the size of 100 feet, or 30.5 meters ! Compare, FIFA's standard football field is about 90 - 120 meters long. So it only takes three to four blue whales to match the length of the soccer field.

Great Comparison of Blue Whales with African & Human Elephants (Images: Encyclopedia Britanica)

The weight is also not kidding, can reach 90 to 150 tons. That's nine times heavier than the biggest school bus. Wow!

But make no mistake, although the size of it, you certainly do not suspect what the food. Believe it or not, blue whales only eat plankton , or very small marine animals, smaller than anchovies. Hayo imagine how many plankton the blue whale needs to make it full!

Well, now we turn to the smallest mammals. For this nomination turned down to a bat from Thailand named Bumble-Bee Bat ( Bumble-Bee bat ). At first glance his name is similar to one of the robot characters in the movie Transformers well! Another term is Hog-Nosed Bat .

This mammal is really very tiny. The smallest size can be only one inch long, or about 2.5 cm. It's just about the size of most insects that exist today. It weighs only about 1 ounce.

Here is the Bumble-Bee Bat, the smallest mammal on earth (Picture: wonderopolis.org )

Bumble-Bee bats are found only in Thailand and very little on the outskirts of Myanmar. These bats live only in small colonies, only about a hundred in one cave. They usually hunt at night in the jungles of Thailand and live by eating forest insects.

But unfortunately, Bumble-Bee bat is currently threatened with extinction. How not, the females are only able to bear just one child in one year. Another threat is that their environment is increasingly pressured by forest clearing for shelter or agricultural land