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Monday, December 22, 2008

11:31 PM

10 of the World's Smallest Animals

1).Worlds Smallest Dog: 12.4 cm (4.9-inch) tall At 1.4 pounds and 4.9 inches tall, Ducky, a yappy short-coat Chihuahua from Charlton (Massachusetts, USA), holds the Guinness World Record for the world's smallest living dog (by height). Ducky succeeds Danka Kordak of Slovakia, a Chihuahua who measured 5.4 inches tall. The smallest dog ever, according to Guinness, was a dwarf Yorkshire terrier who stood 2.8 inches tall.



 2).World's Smallest Snake: 10.1 cm (4-inch) long Leptotyphlops carlae is the world's smallest species of snake, with adults averaging just under four inches in length. Found on the Caribbean island of Barbados, the species --which is as thin as a spaghetti noodle and small enough to rest comfortably on a U.S. quarter-- was discovered by Blair Hedges.

3).Worlds Smallest Fish: 7.9 mm (0.3-inch) long On January 2006, the world's smallest fish was discovered on the Indonesian island of Sumatra: a member of the carp family of fish, the Paedocypris progenetica. It is the world's smallest vertebrate or backboned animal; only 7.9 mm (0.3 inches) long.

The title, however, is contested by 6.2 mm (0.2 in) long male anglerfish Photocorynus spiniceps (not technically a fish but a sexual parasite) and the 7 mm (0.27 in) long male stout infantfish Schindleria brevipinguis.

4). Worlds Smallest Horse: 43.18 cm (17-inch) tall The little horse was born to Paul and Kay Goessling, who specialize in breeding miniature horses, but even for the breed Thumbelina is particularly small: she is thought to be a dwarf-version of the breed. At just 60 lb and 17-inch tall, the five-year-old Thumbelina is the worlds smallest horse.


5).Worlds Smallest Cat: 15.5 cm (6.1-inch) high and 49 cm (19.2-inch) long Meet Mr. Peebles. He lives in central Illinois, is two years old, weighs about three pounds and is the world's smallest cat! The cat's small stature was verified by the Guinness Book of World Records on 2004.



6).World's Smallest Hamster: 2.5 cm (0.9-inch) tall Only slightly bigger than a 50p piece, PeeWee is the smallest hamster in the world. Weighing less than an ounce, the golden hamster stopped growing when he was three weeks old - his five brothers and sisters went on to measure between 4in and 5in.


7).World's Smallest Chameleon: 1.2 cm (0.5-inch) long The Brookesia Minima is the world's smallest species of chameleon. This one is just half an inch. Found on the rainforest floor of Nosy Be Island off the north-west coast of Madagascar, females tend to be larger than males.


8).World's Smallest Lizard: 16 mm (0.6-inch) long So small it can curl up on a dime or stretch out on a quarter, a typical adult of the species, whose scientific name is Sphaerodactylus ariasae is only about 16 millimeters long, or about three quarters of an inch, from the tip of the snout to the base of the tail. It shares the title of "smallest" with another lizard species named Sphaerodactylus parthenopion, discovered in 1965 in the British Virgin Islands.


9).Worlds Smallest Cattle: 81 cm (31-inch) height The worlds smallest cattle is a rare breed of an Indian zebu called the Vechur cow. The average height of this breed of cattle is 31 to 35 inches (81 to 91 cm). The photo above shows a 16 year old Vechur cattle as compared to a 6 year old HF cross-breed cow.



10).World's Smallest Seahorse: 16 mm (0.6-inch) long The creature, known as Hippocampus denise, is typically just 16 millimetres long - smaller than most fingernails. Some were found to be just 13 mm long. H.. denise lives in the tropical waters of the western Pacific Ocean, between 13 and 90 metres beneath the surface.

Friday, December 19, 2008

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

11:11 PM

Miss World 2008 !!! Showcase + 109 Contestants !!!

Miss World 2008
Date: December 13, 2008
Venue: Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa

Miss World 2008 Showcase


Miss India, Parvathy Omanakuttan


Miss Norway, Lene Egeli


Russia's Kseniya Sukhinova


Miss Vietnam, Tran Thi Thuy


Miss Spain, Patricia Rodriquez



Miss France, Laura Tanguy


Miss Egypt, Sanee Ismail


Miss Brazil, Tamara Almeida Silva


Miss Malaysia, Wincci Soo


Miss Jamaica, Brittany Lyons


Miss Germany, Anne-Kathrin Walter


Miss England, Laura Mary


Miss Mexico, Espinoza Marroquin Anagabriela

 Miss Zimbabwe, Cynthia Muvirimi


Miss Portugal Andreia Rodrigues Condesso


Miss Italy, Claudia Russo


Miss Lebanon, Rosarita Tawil


Miss United States, Merica Lane Lindell


Miss Scotland, Stephanie Willemse

Miss Venezuela, Hannely Zulami Qiuntero Ledezma



Miss Chile, Nataly Nadeska

109 contestants participated in this pageant.
Albania Egla Harxhi 17 174 Tirana
Angola Brigith dos Santos - 177 Luanda
Argentina Agustina Quinteros 17 175 La Pampa
Aruba Christina Trejo 20 173 Tanki Flip
Australia Katie Richardson 20 178 Albion Park
Austria Kathrin Krafuss 23 177 Graz
Bahamas Tinnyse Johnson 21 176 Nassau
Barbados Natalie Olivia Griffith 19 160 Bridgetown
Belarus Olga Hižinkova 21 184 Vitebsk
Belgium Alizée Poulicek 21 175 Brussels
Belize Charmaine Chinapen 21 163 Belize City
Bolivia Jackelin Arias 18 177 Trinidad
Bosnia & Herzegovina Tanja Vuji�ić 18 178 Mostar
Botswana Itseng Kgomotso 18 - Gaborone
Brazil Tamara Almeida Silva 23 174 Ipatinga
Bulgaria Julia Yurevich 19 177 Kozloduy
Canada Leah Ryerse 20 178 Hamilton
Cayman Islands Nicosia Lawson 25 - George Town
Chile Nataly Chilet 23 174 Santiago
China P.R. Yan Ling Mei 24 180 Dalian
Chinese Taipei Lin Jie Ming - - Taipei
Colombia Katherine Medina 17 180 Medellín
Congo D.R. Christelle Ndila 18 - Kinshasa
Costa Rica Maria Amalia Matamoros 19 175 San Juan de Naranjo
Croatia Josipa Kusić 20 182 Zagreb
Curaçao Norayla Francisco 23 181 Willemstad
Cyprus Iosifina Sechi 19 168 Limassol
Czech Republic Zuzana Jandová 20 180 Karviná
Denmark Lisa Lents 21 177 Copenhagen
Dominican Republic Nathali Montes de Oca 21 175 Santo Domingo
Ecuador Marjorie Cevallos 22 183 Guayaquil
El Salvador Gabriela Gavidia 18 173 La Libertad
England Laura Coleman 22 175 Leicester
Ethiopia Hibret Fekadu
 

 

 
Finland Linda Wikstedt 19 174 Helsinki
France Laura Tanguy 20 175 Angers
Georgia Khatuna Skhirtladze 18 177 Tbilisi
Germany Anne Katrin Walter 21 172 Dahme-Spreewald
Ghana Frances Takyi-Mensah 22 180 Elmina
Gibraltar Krystel Robba 22 178 Gibraltar
Greece Angeliki Kalaitzi 24 172 Thessaloniki
Guadeloupe Frédérika Charpentier 23
175
Basse-Terre
Guatemala Ana Maribel Arana 23 174 Guatemala City
Guyana Christa Simmons 23 173 Georgetown
Honduras Gabriela Zavala Irias 22 - San Pedro Sula
Hong Kong China Edelweiss Cheung 22 181 Shantou
Hungary Szilvia Freire 24 174 Budapest
Iceland Alexandra �varsdóttir 18 180 Reykjavík
India Parvathy Omanakuttan 21 175 Kottayam
Indonesia Sandra Angelia 22 167 Surabaya
Ireland Sinead Noonan 21 175 County Meath
Israel Tamar Ziskind 23 176 Haifa
Italy Claudia Russo 25 178 Messina
Jamaica Brittany Lyons 19 166 Kingston
Japan Mizuki Kubodera 21 173 Kanagawa
Kazakhstan Alfina Nassyrova 20 175 Almaty
Kenya Ruth Nyambura Kinuthia 21 - Nairobi
Korea Bo-in Choi 22 169 Seoul
Kosovo Yllka Berisha 20 176 Pristina
Latvia Ina Avlasēvi�a 20 - Dobele
Lebanon Rosarita Tawil 20 178 Beirut
Liberia Bindu Parker 21 165 Monrovia
Lithuania GabrielÄ— MartirosianaitÄ— 17 - Kaunas
Macau Ana Kuan Barroso 20 174 Macau
Malaysia Soo Wincci 23 170 Selangor
Malta Martha Fenech 17 170 St. Julian's
Martinique Elodie Delor 18 182 Fort-de-France
Mauritius Olivia Carey 19 169 Vacoas
Mexico Anagabriela Espinoza 20 178 Monterrey
Moldova Iana Varnacova 17 180 Chişinău
Mongolia Anun Chinbat 23 173 Ulan Bator
Montenegro Mariana Mihajlović 18 180 Plavnica
Namibia Marelize Robberts 21 180 Windhoek
Netherlands Carmen Kool 22 178 Arnhem
New Zealand Kahurangi Taylor 17 180 Auckland
Nigeria Adaeze Igwe 18 173 Awka
Northern Ireland Judith Wilson 23 180 Enniskillen
Norway Lene Egeli 21 177 Stavanger
Panama Kathya Saldaña 20 172 Panama City
Paraguay Gabriela Rejala 18 172 Ñemby
Peru Annmarie Dehainaut 18 175 Lima
Philippines Janina Miller San Miguel 17 180 Quezon City
Poland Klaudia Ungerman 20 180 Wysieradz
Portugal Andréia Rodrigues - 177 Lisbon
Puerto Rico Ivonne Orsini 20 175 Bayamón
Russia Ksenia Sukhinova 21 178 Tyumen
Scotland Stephanie Willemse 19 180 Glasgow
Serbia Nevena Lipovac 19 - Belgrade
Seychelles Elena Angione 22 - Mahé
Sierra Leone Tyrilla Gouldson 24 182 Freetown
Singapore Faraliza Tan 22 175 Singapore
Slovakia Edita Krešakova 19 181 Seňa
South Africa Tansey Coetzee 23 174 Johannesburg
Spain Patricia Yurena Rodríguez 18 179 Granadilla de Abona
Sri Lanka Rochelle Adriana Corea 24 180 Colombo
St. Lucia Joy-Ann Biscette 22 - Castries
Suriname Mireille Nederbiel 24 - Paramaribo
Swaziland Tiffany Simelane 20 172 Mhlambanyatsi
Tanzania Nasreem Karim Ndiye 22 - Mwanza
Thailand Ummarapas Julkasia 22 174 Bangkok
Trinidad & Tobago Gabrielle Walcott 23 170 Petit Valley
Turkey Leyla Lydia TuÄŸutlu 19 175 Istanbul
Uganda Dora Mwima 18 - Tororo
Ukraine Irina Zhuravskaya 18 176 Kiev
Venezuela Hannelly Quintero 22 176 Caracas
Wales Chloe Beth Morgan 22 171 Cwmbran
Zambia Winfridah Mofu 19 - Lusaka
Zimbabwe Cynthia Maideyi Muvirimi 25 169 Harare