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Has the extinction of the woolly mammoth affected the food chain?
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∙ 12y ago
The food chain would have not been altered severely due to the charactaristics of the mammoth: Being its size it had very few natural predators (with the excpetion of human beings) meaning very little life depened on consuming the mammoth, it has been know that the Sabre tooth tiger used to bring them down in packs however the chances of this would have been rare and they most likely resorted on smaller prey.
The lifespan of the mammoth approximately 90 years ment that scavengers would not deppend on it either. It can be argued that as mammoths grazed grass and plant populations led to a slight increase but this does not afeect food chains to any extremity.
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