Giant elephants?
Are there any other kind?...............
Or at least there used to be.
On the island of Cyprus there used to be a elephant that was about six feet tall. While not miniature it was not exactly giant.
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"Dwarf elephants first inhabited the Mediterranean islands during the Pleistocene, including all the major islands with the apparent exception of Corsica and the Balearics. Mediterranean dwarf elephants have generally been considered as members of the genus Palaeoloxodon, derived from the continental straight-tusked elephant, Palaeoloxodon antiquus (Falconer & Cautley, 1847), Syn.: Elephas antiquus. An exception is the dwarf Middle-Late Pleistocene Sardinian mammoth, Mammuthus lamarmorai (Major, 1883), the first endemic elephant of the Mediterranean islands recognized as belonging to the mammoth line."
- Wikipedia
Regards,
The ones this bunch hunted were “almost twice the size” of modern African elephants. That, to me, makes them giants in relation to other elephants.