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Smallest Dog      The smallest dog on record was a York Shire Terrier owned by Arthur Marples of Blackburn, England. This dog, which died in 1945 at the age of nearly two years old, it stood 2 and 1/2 inches at the shoulder and measured 3 and 3/4 inches from its nose to the root of its tail. It weighed 4 ounces.

Smallest Primate      The smallest true primate is the pygmy mouse lemur. It has a head body length of 2.4 inches, a tail length of 5.4 inches, and an average weight of 1.1 ounces.

Smallest Feline      The smallest feline is the rusty spotted cat. It has a head body length of 13.8-18.9 inches and an average weight of 2 pounds, and 7 ounces as a female, but a male generally weighs 3 pounds 5 ounces.

Smallest Mammal The smallest mammal is a species of a bumble bee, or hog nosed, bat (Craesonycteris thonglongyai), that is found in limestone caves located on the Kwae Noi River of Thailand. It has a head-body length of 1 and 7/50 in., and a wingspan of about 5 and 1/10 in. It weighs about 3/50 ounces.

Smallest Meat Eater The smallest meat eater is a dwarf weasel. It has a head-body length of 4.3-10.2 inches long. It's measures 0.5-3.4 inches long. It has a total weight of 1-7 ounces.

Smallest Deer The smallest deer is the southern pudu, and it is 13-15 inches tall at the shoulder. It weighs 14-18 pounds. It can be found in Chile and Argentina.

Smallest Turtle The smallest turtle is the common musk or stinkpot turtle which has an average shell length of three inches when it's full grown. It weighs only eight ounces. The smallest marine turtle though, is the Atlantic ridley, which has a weight of 175 pounds and a shell length of 19.7 --- 27.6 inches.

Shortest Snake The very rare thread snake is from only Martinique, Barbados and St. Lucia. The largest known specimen measures 4 1/4 inches. It is so thin that it could fit inside a regular pencil where the lead goes (if you remove the lead first).

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