What are the similarities and differences the extinction of mammoths and the possible extinction of Asian elephants?

Answer 1

This is a difficult question to answer because nobody knows for sure why mammoths became extinct.

However, one hypothesis is that human activity (particularly over-hunting), was responsible for the extinction of mammoths, and Asian elephants are also threatened with extinction largely due to hunting. Another possible cause of the mammoth's extinction was habitat loss because of climate change. Habitat loss also effects Asian elephants, but for them, it is due to deforestation caused by humans.

Note that there is one thing that all extinctions have in common. Extinction occurs when a species is unable to adapt to some change in the conditions of their environment. This may be climate change, habitat loss, the disappearance of their food supply, or even the appearance of a new species that over-hunts them, etc.

Answer 2

Similarities:

• Before mammoths became extinct, their population had declined significantly.

1. They had small herds for 6000 years.

• Asian elephant population has also declined significantly

• Don't know why mammoths became extinct—human hunting?

• Asian elephant habitat is changing and being hunted for ivory.

Differences:

• People can act to save the Asian elephant

• People are playing a greater role in the decline of the Asian elephants.

• Population of Asian elephant is declining much faster than the mammoth

(over hundreds of years instead of thousands)