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The smallest size in nature. The smallest animals in the world (11 photos)

The animal world is so diverse that we are hardly familiar with a hundredth of the inhabitants of our planet. The most famous are large mammals. But there are many miniature representatives of the fauna.

The smallest frog

The length of this tiny frog called Paedophryne is 7.7 millimeters, although there are “giants” among them, reaching 11.3 millimeters. Males are always smaller than females. Due to their brown color, they manage to remain unnoticed both on the ground and in the trees.

The smallest chameleon

The tiny chameleon lizard the small brookesia (Brookesia minima) lives in the tropics of Madagascar. Its length is 1.2 centimeters.

The smallest jellyfish

The Irukandji jellyfish looks like a tiny (25 by 12 millimeters) almost transparent white bell. At the same time, the size of the tentacles can reach lengths from one millimeter to a meter. The main feature of the Irukandji is that its poison, which, by the way, has not been studied by scientists, can paralyze or kill a person.

smallest mammal

The weight of a dwarf multi-tooth with a body length of 3-4.5 centimeters is less than 2 grams.

The smallest deer

The growth of the northern pudu reaches 3-40 centimeters. The horns are also very small. The northern pudu lives in southern Chile and the island of Chilos, although it is very difficult to see it there - the animals lead a rather secretive lifestyle.

Little animals of Russia

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The smallest bird is the yellow-headed kinglet. The length of his body is about 10 centimeters, the bird weighs up to 10 grams. Its fellow - red-headed kinglet - weighs even less, only 5 grams, and the body length barely reaches nine centimeters.

Quails are considered the smallest representatives of chicken. They weigh about 100 grams.

The smallest fox is called the corsac. With a body length of about 50 centimeters, the fox reaches a height of 30 centimeters.

The smallest creature on earth

Kitty's pig-nosed bat is considered the smallest creature on Earth. This inhabitant of Thailand weighs less than 2 grams with a body length of 2.9 cm to 3.3 cm. During the day, animals hide in the caves of limestone hills, and in the evenings they hunt insects in small groups. According to biologists, their number reaches a little more than 500 individuals.

The pygmy shrew Savi is the smallest animal on Earth among land mammals. Its weight is approximately 1.5 - 2.5 grams. This creature has one feature - it eats food about three to four times its weight per day.

Measuring the length of your “weapon of love” is a popular and very ancient male fun. According to the legends, even divine beings willingly participated in it. Let us recall the same Priapus, the ancient Greek god of fields and gardens, who measured the length of a member with the donkey of Dionysus, and won (although there is a version that he lost, got angry and killed the winner). And in the Renaissance, codpieces came into fashion - richly decorated pouches for the male organ. This main decoration of the costume was proudly put on public display, to the envy of rivals.

Many men believe that how good they can be in bed depends solely on the size of their penis. And there is indeed a grain of truth in this, because several things related to sex depend on the size of the penis, including the likelihood of a woman reaching an orgasm.

The average length of an erect phallus is in the range 12.9-15cm. But the penis in an adult with a length of less than 7 cm is referred to in medicine as a "micropenis".

Having studied the statistics from Wikipedia and other sources, we found out in which countries men live with the smallest penises and who have not just a “micro”, but almost a “nanopenis” in the world.

Countries where men with the smallest penises live

Here is a picture that shows the size of manhood, depending on the country of residence. This data, cited by the Australian National Agency for Health and Welfare, is the result of both Internet surveys (in which many have probably added a couple of extra centimeters to themselves) and measurements from the tip of an erect penis to the pubic bone.

The title of men with the smallest penis in the world (on average - 10 cm) goes to the Koreans. However, there are other studies conducted in South Korea. In the first study (published in 1970), 702 men aged 21 to 31 took part, and the average length of the erect penis in the subjects was 12.70 cm. In another study (from 1998), scientists with rulers at the ready studied 150 Koreans, and the average penis length this time was 13.42 cm. But the third study (published in 1999) with 279 Korean men showed that the average penis length in the homeland of LG and Hyundai is 12.66 cm So guess: either the rulers dry out over time, or something else.
But men with the largest average penis size can be found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (18 cm in the “combat position”).
There is a "folk sign" that the larger the size of the legs, the larger the man's penis. And here it is not. The researchers found no statistically significant correlation between penis size and the size of other body parts. One study by Siminoski and Bain (1988) found a weak correlation between penis size and nose size and height; however, it was too small to be used as a practical estimate.
But the connection between the anomaly of the genitals and limbs of a person may exist. The development of the penis in the embryo is partly controlled by the same genes that control limb development. Mutations in some genes that control limb growth also cause abnormal genital development.

Men may well underestimate the size of their penis compared to others. Surveys of sexologists show that many men who thought their penis was too small actually had medium-sized penises. And marketers long ago learned to play on the fears of the strong half of humanity, offering creams, ointments, potency products and other “one hundred percent reliable” means for penis enlargement. This is despite the fact that there is no consensus in the scientific community about a non-surgical method that can permanently increase either the thickness or length of the phallus.

The owner of the smallest penis in the world

Miami resident Mike Carson entered the Guinness Book of Records as the owner of the smallest male penis. According to Carson and his doctors, the size of his fully functioning penis is only 0.15 centimeters. For comparison: the length (not in an erect state) is 48 centimeters.

Carson said that in his youth he was teased by peers, and most of his classmates believed that he was actually a girl.

“For a long time, I felt so bad (due to bullying) that I thought I was really a girl. The guys laughed at me and told me that I have such a big clitoris ", Carson said.

However, now the American is even proud of his reputation as the owner of the smallest penis, and has no desire to have an operation to increase the phallus. Mike assures that since he gained fame, the ladies do not give a pass, wanting to give his "baby" a test drive. This is where the adage that size doesn't matter definitely goes wrong.

Carson's closest competitor is the Pole Lee Pzhyzbylovych. His erect penis is only 4 cm long. If you look at a photograph of this man's genitals, it's hard to believe that it belongs to an adult and not a child.

The smallest members in animals

Reykjavik resident Sigurdur Hjartarson knows exactly which animal has the smallest penis. He did not have to study photos and video materials for this. After all, all the exhibits at Khyartarson, one might say, are at hand. In his museum of mammalian penises.

This strange collection, which the Icelander has been collecting for about 15 years, contains the genitals of all animals living in the country, and many species from different parts of the Earth. In total, the preserved penises of 95 species of mammals are stored in the phallological museum.

The largest exhibit is the penis of a blue whale, 170 centimeters long and weighing 70 kg. And he is not yet entirely, otherwise he would be 12 meters long and weigh about a ton.

But the owner of the smallest member among animals is a hamster. The length of his penis is only 2 mm, while the body is from 5 to 34 cm long.To view such a tiny organ, you need to use a magnifying glass.

There is also a human penis in the museum, belonging to a fascist who died at the age of 95.

This world is strange: some loves strive to create something monumental and gigantic in order to become famous all over the world and go down in history, while others create minimalist copies of ordinary things and amaze the world with them no less. This review contains the smallest items that exist in the world and at the same time are no less functional than their full-sized counterparts.

1. SwissMiniGun gun

The SwissMiniGun is no bigger than a regular wrench, but it is capable of firing tiny bullets that shoot out of the barrel at speeds in excess of 430 km/h. That's more than enough to kill a man at close range.

2. Car Peel 50

Weighing just 69 kg, the Peel 50 is the smallest vehicle ever to be approved for road use. This three-wheeled "pepelats" could reach a speed of 16 km / h.

3. Kalou School

UNESCO recognized the Iranian Kalou school as the smallest in the world. It has only 3 students and a former soldier, Abdul-Muhammed Sherani, who is now a teacher.

4. Teapot weighing 1.4 grams

It was created by ceramics master Wu Ruishen. Although this teapot weighs only 1.4 grams and fits on the tip of your finger, you can brew tea in it.

5. Sark Prison

Sark Prison was built in the Channel Islands in 1856. There was room for only 2 prisoners, who, moreover, were in very cramped conditions.

6. Tumbleweed

This house was called "Perakati-field" (Tumbleweed). It was built by Jay Schafer of San Francisco. Although the house is smaller than some people's closets (only 9 square meters), it has a workspace, a bedroom, and a bath with shower and toilet.

7. Mills End Park

Mills End Park in Portland is the smallest park in the world. Its diameter is only ... 60 centimeters. At the same time, the park has a swimming pool for butterflies, a miniature Ferris wheel and tiny statues.

8. Edward Niño Hernandez

The growth of Edward Niño Hernandez from Colombia is only 68 centimeters. The Guinness Book of Records recognized him as the smallest person in the world.

9. Police station in a telephone booth

In fact, it is no more than a telephone booth. But it was actually a functioning police station in Carabella, Florida.

10. Sculptures by Willard Wigan

British sculptor Willard Wigan, who suffered from dyslexia and poor school performance, found solace in creating miniature works of art. His sculptures are barely visible to the naked eye.

11. Bacterium Mycoplasma Genitalium

12. Porcine circovirus

Although there is still debate about what can be considered "alive" and what is not, most biologists do not classify a virus as a living organism due to the fact that it cannot reproduce or has no metabolism. A virus, however, can be much smaller than any living organism, including bacteria. The smallest is a single-stranded DNA virus called porcine circovirus. Its size is only 17 nanometers.

13. Amoeba

The size of the smallest object visible to the naked eye is approximately 1 millimeter. This means that under certain conditions, a person can see an amoeba, a ciliate shoe, and even a human egg.

14. Quarks, leptons and antimatter...

During the last century, scientists have made great strides in understanding the vastness of space and the microscopic "building blocks" of which it is composed. When it came to figuring out what is the smallest observable particle in the universe, people faced certain difficulties. At some point they thought it was an atom. Then the scientists discovered the proton, the neutron, and the electron.

But it didn't end there. Today, everyone knows that when you push these particles into each other in places like the Large Hadron Collider, they can be broken into even smaller particles, such as quarks, leptons, and even antimatter. The problem is that it is impossible to determine what is the smallest, since the size at the quantum level becomes irrelevant, as well as all the usual rules of physics do not apply (some particles have no mass, and others even have negative mass).

15. Vibrating strings of subatomic particles

Given what was said above about the fact that the concept of size does not matter at the quantum level, we can recall string theory. This is a slightly controversial theory, suggesting that all subatomic particles are made up of vibrating strings that interact to create things like mass and energy. Thus, since these strings do not technically have a physical size, it can be argued that they are in some sense the "smallest" objects in the universe.

The world and science never stand still. More recently, in physics textbooks, they confidently wrote that the electron is the smallest particle. Then mesons became the smallest particles, then bosons. And now science has discovered a new the smallest particle in the universe is a Planck black hole. True, it is open so far only in theory. This particle belongs to the category of black holes because its gravitational radius is greater than or equal to the wavelength. Of all the existing black holes, the Planckian is the smallest.

The too short lifetime of these particles cannot make their practical detection possible. At least for now. And they are formed, as is commonly believed, as a result of nuclear reactions. But it is not only the lifetime of Planck black holes that prevents them from being detected. Now, unfortunately, this is not possible from a technical point of view. In order to synthesize Planck black holes, an energy accelerator of more than a thousand electron volts is needed.

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Despite such a hypothetical existence of this smallest particle in the Universe, its practical discovery in the future is quite possible. After all, not so long ago, the legendary Higgs boson also could not be detected. It was to detect it that an installation was created that only the laziest inhabitant on Earth had not heard of - the Large Hadron Collider. The confidence of scientists in the success of these studies helped to achieve a sensational result. The Higgs boson is currently the smallest particle of those whose existence has been practically proven. Its discovery is very important for science, it allowed all particles to acquire mass. And if particles didn't have mass, the universe couldn't exist. Not a single substance could be formed in it.

Despite the practical proven existence of this particle, the Higgs boson, practical applications for it have not yet been invented. So far, this is just theoretical knowledge. But everything is possible in the future. Not all discoveries in the field of physics immediately had practical application. Nobody knows what will happen in a hundred years. After all, as mentioned earlier, the world and science never stand still.