Dwarf elephant

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What Wikipedia says

Dwarf elephants are prehistoric members of the order Proboscidea which, through the process of allopatric speciation on islands, evolved much smaller body sizes (around 1–2.3 metres (3 ft 3 in – 7 ft 7 in) shoulder height) in comparison with their immediate ancestors.

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Image: Peter Maas, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.