What type of food did mammoths eat?

Answer 1

Fossil remains of mammoths indicate that mammoths primarily ate grasses, reeds and water sedges. Dung deposits have also shown evidence of pondweed, elderberry, snowberry, wild rose, raspberries, currants, spruce, sagebrush, water birch, oak, juniper, grasses, and prickly pear cactus.

Answer 2

Mammoths are early elephants, usually with long tusks, that ate vegetation.

Mammoths date back several million years and recently went extinct.

People ate mammoths.

Large prehistoric cats, working in packs, probably ate elephants the same as they do today.

Probably wolves and bears attacked and ate some mammoths.

Some suggest that mammoths were forced into extinction because of predation by humans hunting in groups. Other suggest climate change, and warming climate after the last ice age caused the die off.

Since recent history shows that mankind killed off the plains buffalo is less than 100 years, it is conceivable that human predation was a serious factor in mammoth extinction.

Recently a stone arrowhead was found lodged in a prehistoric mammoth bone.

Answer 3

Mammoths, like modern elephants, were grazers. This means they primarily ate grasses. They would have also eaten a smaller amount of certain shrubs, leaves, etc. Mammoths were strict herbivores, meaning they only ate plants.

Answer 4

Like modern elephants, mammoths were grazers. This means the majority of their food was grass, but they did eat a fair amount of leaves from trees and shrubs, like modern elephants. This contrasts from mastodons which were browsers, getting most of their food from tree leaves, especially spruce needles.

Answer 5

Adult mammoths were probably only hunted by humans and saber toothed cats. Mammoth calves, if left vulnerable, could have fallen prey to everything from lions and hyenas to wolves and bears (lions and hyenas used to live in the same places that mammoths did).

Answer 6

The suck their food through their ears then spit it back out, throught their mouths, dumbnuts

Answer 7

Mammoths had a similar diet to the African bush elephant. They primarily ate grass, which means that they were grazers. They also ate fruits and leaves on occasion.