Bumblebee Bat — printable fact sheet
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Bumblebee Bat
Craseonycteris thonglongyai
Kitti's hog-nosed bat, or bumblebee bat, weighs about 2 g and has a body 29 to 33 mm long — it is the smallest mammal in the world by body length, and it vies with the Etruscan shrew, which is fractionally lighter, for the title overall. It is so distinct that it is the sole mem…
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- A single Bumblebee Bat can fit comfortably on the tip of a human finger due to its incredibly small size.
- Individual roosting bats sit well apart from each other on the cave ceiling rather than clustering, unusual for a bat. Its total known world range is a small karst region straddling one river drainage, which makes it acutely vulnerable to cave disturbance, limestone quarrying and tourism. A bumblebee bat can perch on a human fingertip and has been found roosting in caves alongside far larger bat species without interacting with them.
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