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- Dwarf_elephant abstract "Dwarf elephants are prehistoric members of the order Proboscidea that, through the process of allopatric speciation on islands, evolved much smaller body sizes (around 1.5-2.3 metres) in comparison with their immediate ancestors. Dwarf elephants are an example of insular dwarfism, the phenomenon whereby large terrestrial vertebrates (usually mammals) that colonize islands evolve dwarf forms, a phenomenon attributed to adaptation to resource-poor environments and selection for early maturation and reproduction. Some modern populations of Asian elephants have also undergone size reduction on islands to a lesser degree, resulting in populations of pygmy elephants.Fossil remains of dwarf elephants have been found on the Mediterranean islands of Cyprus, Malta (at Ghar Dalam), Crete (in Nomos Chanion at Vamos, Stylos and in a now under water cave on the coast), Sicily, Sardinia, the Cyclades Islands and the Dodecanese Islands. Other islands where dwarf stegodon have been found are Sulawesi, Flores, Timor and other islands of the Lesser Sundas. The Channel Islands of California once supported a dwarf species descended from Columbian mammoths, while small races of woolly mammoths were once found on Saint Paul Island; the mammoths on Wrangel island are no longer considered dwarfs.".
- Dwarf_elephant thumbnail Elephas_skeleton.JPG?width=300.
- Dwarf_elephant wikiPageExternalLink 18201-mammals-size-change-evolution.html.
- Dwarf_elephant wikiPageID "1209585".
- Dwarf_elephant wikiPageRevisionID "606564444".
- Dwarf_elephant hasPhotoCollection Dwarf_elephant.
- Dwarf_elephant subject Category:Cyclades.
- Dwarf_elephant subject Category:Dodecanese.
- Dwarf_elephant subject Category:History_of_Sardinia.
- Dwarf_elephant subject Category:History_of_Sicily.
- Dwarf_elephant subject Category:Holocene_extinctions.
- Dwarf_elephant subject Category:Maltese_prehistory.
- Dwarf_elephant subject Category:Prehistoric_Crete.
- Dwarf_elephant subject Category:Prehistoric_Cyprus.
- Dwarf_elephant subject Category:Prehistoric_elephants.
- Dwarf_elephant type Abstraction100002137.
- Dwarf_elephant type Attribute100024264.
- Dwarf_elephant type Extinction114012173.
- Dwarf_elephant type HoloceneExtinctions.
- Dwarf_elephant type Inaction114010148.
- Dwarf_elephant type State100024720.
- Dwarf_elephant type Animal.
- Dwarf_elephant type Mammal.
- Dwarf_elephant comment "Dwarf elephants are prehistoric members of the order Proboscidea that, through the process of allopatric speciation on islands, evolved much smaller body sizes (around 1.5-2.3 metres) in comparison with their immediate ancestors.".
- Dwarf_elephant label "Dwarf elephant".
- Dwarf_elephant label "Elefante nano".
- Dwarf_elephant label "Zwergelefant".
- Dwarf_elephant label "Карликовые слоны".
- Dwarf_elephant sameAs Zwergelefant.
- Dwarf_elephant sameAs Elefante_nano.
- Dwarf_elephant sameAs m.04hgxt.
- Dwarf_elephant sameAs Q5656368.
- Dwarf_elephant sameAs Q5656368.
- Dwarf_elephant sameAs Dwarf_elephant.
- Dwarf_elephant wasDerivedFrom Dwarf_elephant?oldid=606564444.
- Dwarf_elephant depiction Elephas_skeleton.JPG.
- Dwarf_elephant isPrimaryTopicOf Dwarf_elephant.
