Itty bitty elephants!

In news of things really little and really cute, a heretofore thought extinct species of miniature elephant has been found docily munching their way through Borneo. Ok. They’ve always known these tiny pachyderms lived on Borneo, but now they’ve found out that it’s the same species as a species thought extinct that used to roam Java, sending waves of excitement through the apparently easily overjoyed scientific community. Anyway, it looks like some Asian kings in yesteryear decided to exchange gifts of tusked Mammalians and, thus, inadvertently saved the species from an untimely end. Ironically, the tiny tuskers are facing a new threat from the… biofuels industry. Yes sir, in the ironies of ironies, the new environmental bonanza is causing the destruction of the docile Dumbos’ habitat by farmers razing their forests for palm oil plantations. Humanity never ceases to amaze me…