I could easily image these pulling carts, or working as their larger cousins do–*i.e. * lifting & toteing stuff, as in SE Asia. But smaller. Like those miniature skipshovels, called Wildcats, vs. full-scale bulldozers.
Right then. I just had a birthday. Who’s going to get me a wee elephant? If you start working on the cloning now, I’m sure you could get it to me by next week.
That Weekly World News article reminds me of a commercial* I’ve seen, which featured hippos roughly the size of gerbils. They were shown lazing about in a water dish, and I decided then and there that if such a beast was ever created, I’d be first in line at the pet store. They could eat brussel sprouts like cabbages, and finish off that box of Grape Nuts that’s been in my cupboard for months (I seem to recall real Hippos at the zoo eating cabbages, roughage and such, so for my Pocket Hippos, brussel sprouts and Grape Nuts should be good eats).
If you could get your elephants down to the same scale Bosda, I’d probably spring for some of those too. Maybe get some mini crocodiles, a teeny-tiny Steve Irwin, and I could have the home version of the Crocodile Hunter in an aquarium in my living room!
[sub]*Funnily enough, the commerical was a PSA about how easy it is for TV shows and ads to fool us about what’s real, and what’s not[/sub]
