Top 5 Tiniest Mammals on Earth

In 1974, a bumblebee bat was measured in Thailand, and the entire adult weighed just two grams. But is that the tiniest mammal? Number five, the Etruscan shrew, can race its own length in less than a second and usually tips the scale at 1.8 grams. Number four, the Pygmy jerboa, which looks like a mouse on stilts, can leap almost twenty times its body length and is found in the deserts of Pakistan. Number three, Savi’s white-toothed shrew, is so light that it sometimes skims across the water’s surface without sinking. The Kitti’s hog-nosed bat holds the record at number two for smallest by length, with adults under 3 centimeters, but there’s still one contender. Number one, the Bumblebee bat from Thailand, is both the shortest and the lightest mammal ever recorded, able to perch on a pencil eraser and vanish into a flower at dusk.