MAMMALS • REPTILES • AMPHIBIANS • FISH • INSECTS • BIRDS

MAMMALS
Largest and Heaviest	Blue Whale Average length 30.5 m Largest ever recorded 33.58 m Pregnant female may weigh 203 tones
Smallest Land Mammal	Kitti’s hog-nosed Bat (Found in Thailand)2 Wing span 16 cm weight 1.75 to 2 g
Smallest Marine Mammal	Probably Heaviside’s dolphin(Found in South Atlantic) Length 1.22 m Weight 41 kg
Rarest Mammal Rarest Mammal	Aspecies of tenrec from Madagascar is only known from a single specimen.
Fastest Mammal	Cheetah (found in Africa, Middle East, W. Asia) can run at 100 kph over short distances. Pronhorn antelope (Found in USA) Can run at 60 kph over long distances.
Slowest Mammal	Three-toedsloth (found in South America) covers about 5 m a minute in trees, and only 2 m aminute on the ground.
Highest Mammal	Yak (found in Tibet and China)

BIRDS

Largest Bird (Flightless)

North African Ostrich
Height (male) 2.74 m
Weight 156.5 kg
eggs up to 20 cm long

Largest Wing Span

Wandering albatross (found in Southern Oceans)
Average length (male) 3.15 m
Largest ever recorded 3.6 m

Smallest Bird

Helena’s humming bird (found in Cuba)
Average length (male) 5.8 cm
(head and body 1.5 cm)
Weight 2 g
Egg 1.14 cm long

Rarest Bird

Mauritius Kestrel (found in Mauritius)
About 5 are thought to remain.

Fastest Bird

Spine-tailed swift (found in Russia and Himalayas)
flies at 171 kph

Longest Flight

Arctic tern
May cover 40,000 km a year migrating from Arctic to Antarctic and back.

Fastest Under Water

Gentoo Penguin swims at 36 kph

Largest Nest

Bald eagles
one was 2.9 m wide and 6 m deep.