The Incredible Shrinking Man

Because environments vary with both predictable patterns and with unpredictable but recurring events, ecologists have long been interested in the ecological adaptations that organisms use to survive periods in which the environment may be exceptionally harsh. One of the most interesting adaptations observed in the animal kingdom is full body shrinkage.
Krill has adopted shrinkage as [...]

In the introduction of this 1991 research paper by the National Research Council it states: “Like computers, livestock for use in developing countries should be getting smaller and becoming more “personal”. Conventional “mainframes”, such as cattle, are to large for the world’s poorest people; they require too much space and expense. “Miniframes”, such as the [...]