Wat bigst am Yu?|BunBunThaDunDun

With help of many silly height comparison tools, I got the size difference I wanted. Except for Micro, I can’t figure out how small I can make them and keep it within the size of a “working mammal”. I liked my initial idea of Micro being small enough to sit comfortably on Standard’s hoof.

Size references

:white_small_square:XXL standing at 55 centimeters from top of the head to the ground
:white_small_square: Standards standing at 23 - 28 cm
:white_small_square:Micro standing possibly at 4 cm

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I just realized how FRICKEN CHOMKY I made them :ahahaha:

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So the smallest mammal is the Etruscan shrew, which has a body length of 4 cm.

That said, horses and other larger quadrapeds are measured at the shoulder, so a micro standing at 4 cm tall with the same body height/length ratio as a normal horse (5ft:8ft) would be 6.4 cm long, nose to tail.

This makes them about the same size as a chonky dwarf hamster (dwarf hamsters are a bit longer, but they’re not as tall):

If you made them 4 cm long to match the shrew, then they’d be 2.5 cm tall, which about the same size as the shrew I think. At that size, keeping the fluffy body shape, they’d be primarily herbivores as pretty much anything could munch on them, from ants to cockroaches to mice.

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Love this take with dwarf hamster, thank you so much for the suggestion! Those gonna be some fat pighorse hammonds :heart::laughing:

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My daughter had hamsters (first was a Syrian called Cookie, the next two were a pair of Russian Dwarf sisters called Cherry and Strawberry), so I’m very familiar with their sizes.

Both types of hammie would quite happily chow down on a micro’s babbehs if they were anything like the ones my daughter kept, although I think an adult micro would be too big for their prey range.

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How cute would it be for a hamster to have his cheeks full of little micro foals?! Awww.

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