It is only slightly larger than the Kitti's hog-nosed bat, one of the smallest mammals in the world.

The Kitti's hog-nosed bat of Thailand is probably the smallest mammal.

Kitti's hog-nosed bat roosts in the caves of limestone hills, far from the entrance.

Kitti's hog-nosed bat has a brief activity period, leaving its roost for only 30 minutes in the evening and 20 minutes at dawn.

Despite having two caudal vertebrae, Kitti's Hog-nosed Bat has no visible tail.

Kitti's hog-nosed bat occupies the limestone caves along rivers, within dry evergreen or deciduous forests.

Family Craseonycteridae: Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Thailand)

Family Craseonycteridae (Kitti's Hog-nosed Bat)

Sai Yok is home to Kitti's hog-nosed bat, a rare bat species considered to be the world's smallest mammal (weighing around 2 grams).

Kitti's hog-nosed bat is the only extant species in the family Craseonycteridae, which is grouped in the superfamily Rhinolophoidea as a result of molecular testing.

As of the species' most recent review in 2008, Kitti's hog-nosed bat is listed by the IUCN as vulnerable, with a downward population trend.

The Bumblebee bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai), also known as Kitti's Hog-nosed bat, is an endangered species of bat.

Among the rare and vulnerable species in these highlands, Kitti's Hog-nosed Bat and the holoparasitic flowering plant Sapria himalayana deserve mention.

The Kitti's Hog-nosed Bat, Craseonycteris thonglongyai, the world's smallest species of bat and the smallest mammal in the world, was found by him in 1973.

Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai), also known as the bumblebee bat, is a vulnerable species of bat and the only extant member of the family Craseonycteridae.

In 2007, Kitti's hog-nosed bat was identified by the Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) project as one of its Top 10 "focal species".

In Thailand, Kitti's Hog-nosed Bat is restricted to a small region of Kanchanaburi Province, within the drainage basin of the Khwae Noi River.

Notable wildlife in the park includes Kitti's hog-nosed bats (the world's smallest mammal), regal crabs, barking deer, blue pittas, wreathed hornbills, gibbons, Malayan porcupines, slow loris and serow.

Other species include the Sambar Deer, Barking Deer, Serow, Red Goral, Leopard, Kitti's Hog-nosed Bat, the Tenasserim White-bellied Rat and the Tenasserim lutung, as well as and a number of bird species.

This is the reason for its common name "bumblebee bat".

The Bumblebee bat has a smaller skull.

Shrews are possibly the world's smallest living mammal (although some give this title to the bumblebee bat).

Mammals range in size from the Bumblebee Bat to the Blue Whale.

The Etruscan shrew is the smallest mammal by mass, though the bumblebee bat has a smaller skull size.

The Bumblebee bat roosts in the caves of limestone hills, along rivers, within dry evergreen or deciduous forests.

Two other species identified in this century, the bumblebee bat and the Chinese river dolphin, already rank among the dozen most endangered species in the world.

Bumblebee bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai)

The Bumblebee bat, from Thailand, is the world's smallest bat, and is also one of the world's smallest mammals.

Craseonycteridae (Bumblebee bat or Kitti's hog-nosed bat)

The Bumblebee bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai), also known as Kitti's Hog-nosed bat, is an endangered species of bat.

Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai), also known as the bumblebee bat, is a vulnerable species of bat and the only extant member of the family Craseonycteridae.

The smallest flying vertebrates are the bee hummingbird and the bumblebee bat, both of which may weigh less than 2 g. They are thought to represent the lower size limit for endotherm flight.

The most recent incident prior to the discovery of the family Laonastidae of the Laotian rock rat by Western science was the discovery of the bumblebee bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai; family Craseonycteridae) in 1974.

The bumblebee bat of Southeast Asia, the smallest mammal on earth, weighs "a third less than a penny," whereas, at the other extreme of size, a blue whale has a heart weighing several tons (on a gore-strewn factory ship, she tells us, it took "six brawny men to drag the heart out with flensing hooks").

Bumblebee bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai)

The Kitti's Hog-nosed Bat, Craseonycteris thonglongyai, the world's smallest species of bat and the smallest mammal in the world, was found by him in 1973.