This Is The Largest And The Smallest Mammal On Earth



I think you are realized that giraffe is the tallest mammal on earth. But what about the largest and the smallest mammal on earth? i don't think that you know it.
 

 The Largest

So for the largest living mammal on earth, is the blue whale. For your information, even if its living on the ocean and looks like a fish, but the blue whale is mammal.



Why? because they are breathing with its lungs and of course have mammary gland used for nursing calves. An adult blue whale can grow to 100 ft long (30,5 meters)! compared with the largest mammal on land, this is the difference.

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The maximum weight ever recorded is 173 tonnes and probably reaching over 181 tonnes. its about nine times of the large school bus.
even blue whale have super large body, the blue whales feed almost exclusively on zooplankton which is the species that eaten by blue whales varies from ocean to ocean. an adult
blue whale can eating up to 3,600 kilograms of zooplankton on a single day.


 The smallest


So that is the largest living mammal on earth. Now let's talk about the smallest living mammal on earth.
for this nomination, the winner is.. the bumble-bee bat from Thailand. do you know it? well some people call it hog-nosed bat.
 
This creature is so small. the smallest ever recorded is about 1 inch long, 1 ounce in weight.

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This creature is can only found in Thailand and Myanmar. its live in little colony (about 100 bats) in one cave. They usually eating bugs in the forest.
 

But unfortunately this bumble-bee bat is endangered, because the female only giving birth one bat a year. and the place where they live is reduced.



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