pygmy

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Pygmy hippos are much smaller than their river cousins and critically endangered, with fewer than 2,500 believed to remain in the wild.

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2025

Pygmy hippos can be housed and supported at a much lower cost.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2024

Pygmy hippos, otherwise known as dwarf hippos, are native to West Africa and experts believe there are only about 2,500 left in the wild worldwide.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2024

The Ryukyuan Pygmy Squid, Idiosepius kijimuna, is named after the short, red-haired forest fairies that are said to live in the banyan trees of Okinawa.

From Science Daily • Oct. 24, 2023

Trading and marriage relationships were undoubtedly established between those Khoisan and the Bantu farmers, each occupying different adjacent habitats, just as Pygmy hunter-gatherers and Bantu farmers still do today in equatorial Africa.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond