Given the question: Hippopotamus melitensis is an extinct hippopotamus that lived in Malta. It arrived after the Messinian salinity crisis[citation needed] and lived during the Pleistocene on Malta. The absence of predators led to the dwarfing of the hippos. The majority of findings of this species are known from the Għar Dalam a cave on Malta famous for its Pleistocene fossil deposits. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Animal