Island dwarfism led to the smallest subspecies of the wolf The extinct Honshū wolf, which was only found on the Japanese islands of Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū, is considered the smallest subspecies of the wolf. Its body length was about 90 centimeters, and its shoulder height was 56 centimeters. The
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A drawing of the Honshu wolf created between 1833 and 1850 by Philipp Franz von Siebold. (© Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)