Other species found are dwarf elephant and dormouse, Leithia cartei.
These endemic dwarf elephants were taxonomically different on each island or group of very close islands, like the Cyclades archipelago.
Extinction of the insular dwarf elephants has not been correlated with the arrival in the islands of man.
On the island of Rhodes, bones of an endemic dwarf elephant have been discovered.
Two groups of remains of dwarf elephants have been found on the island of Tilos.
However, this name refers to the dwarf elephants from the island of Malta.
But this is nothing compared to the ring antics of a bespectacled dwarf elephant on a tricycle.
It would have been taller, though not heavier, than the region's dwarf elephants.
This same process is believed to cause the dwarfism found in some dwarf elephants, the pygmy mammoth, and Homo floresiensis.
These people may have brought about the extinction of the Pleistocene-era pygmy hippopotamus and dwarf elephant.
