Can You Believe It? Adorable Pygmy Elephants!
To start – “Pygmy Elephant” is a term sometimes incorrectly used to describe several different types of adorable and smaller-than-average elephants. Several different extinct species of unusually small island dwelling elephants are sometimes incorrectly called “pygmy” when in fact they are their own species, and are termed “dwarf elephants”. Also called pygmy elephants are what are thought to be an emerging sub-species of the African Forest Elephant. More commonly, the well known Borneo Elephant is often called “pygmy”. Of course, no matter what you call these petite pachyderms, they are still make some of the cutest baby animals in the world!
If you love these tinier-than-expected animals, we highly recommend you check out our articles on other pygmy animals:
Or: check out our last article on the more traditional and widely known baby African and Asian Elephants!
