It didn't make it into the movie version, but the novel Jurassic Park features a flashback of InGen founder and dinosaur mogul John Hammond with one of his earlier creations - an elephant that stays the size of a house cat. Hammond takes the elephant around as a fundraising prop, never failing to wow the public.
The elephant doesn't quite behave like an elephant when reduced in size - it's more like a bitey, irritable rodent. I suppose it would hard to be the same kind of creature when you're size is so dramatically adjusted - though this lion is certainly giving it a try! (I found this strip in an online group called Out of Context Comics, and as such don't have the source or artist).
Over recent years, many zoos have downsized their collections, phasing out some species (often large animals) because they felt that they didn't have the room or resources to adequately house them. This would certainly be a fun sci-fi twist... as long as you could be sure that you didn't have to worry about visitors pocketing lions and giraffes and trying to sneak them out the gate.
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