The process of cultivating bonsai trees results in a reduction of cells being developed which then results in miniaturization of leaves and branches. Would it theoretically be possible to apply a similar process to animals or humans to make truly miniature doll-sized creatures?
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No.
Animals and plants don’t grow the same way – trimming the limbs of a baby and trimming the limbs of a tree don’t have the same end results unfortunately.
What you can do if you really want miniature animals, is to breed them selectively for size like [miniature horses](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature_horse) – take the 2 smallest animals you can find and make them have a baby, rinse and repeat for a few hundred years until they’re all tiny!
Or, if you want to go hands off, you can take advantage of [“Insular Dwarfism”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_dwarfism) AKA “Island Dwarfism.” When animals get stranded on a smaller body of land than they’re used to, over time, provided they survive long enough to breed anyway, they’ll get smaller and smaller… [except when they don’t](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_gigantism).
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