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Super Small AnimalsMeet the Super Small Animals

Biologist Patrick Aryee explores the secrets behind what makes small animals successful.

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The pygmy hippo's small size makes it well adapted for life in the jungle

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  • Being small helps this leaf chameleon to find food, keep out of danger and find its own space
  • Honey badgers' loose skin enables them to twist around when bitten, and bite back!
  • The pink fairy armadillo is one of Argentina's most elusive animals
  • Fire ants join together to form floating rafts that endure rainforest floods
  • Some dung beetles are able to push balls up to ten times their weight
  • Weasels are thin enough to be able to chase mice and voles into the narrowest spaces
  • The pygmy hippo's small size makes it well adapted for life in the jungle
  • This grey mouse lemur is barely the size of an apple
  • This Brahminy blind snake weighs less than a gram
  • These tiny spiders have developed ways of harnessing the wind to travel great distances.

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  • Super Small Animals

    Patrick Aryee investigates what makes super small animals so successful.

    BBC One

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