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Who were the wooly mammoths enemies?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Humans. That's really it.

Some people think saber tooth tigers were enemies of wooly mammoths. They probably did attack baby mammoths, but not a full grown one. A pack of saber tooth tigers probably couldn't even bring one down. Keep in mind: mammoths were even bigger than the modern day elephant. While modern cats bite the throat, this tactic doesn't work on elephants, so if modern cats attacked a mammoth, it certainly wouldn't work.

It is thought that saber tooth tigers didn't bite the throat, but rather brought the prey to the ground and got the jugular from there. Clearly saber tooth tigers could not bring a wooly mammoth to the ground to do that.

So the answer: humans. If saber tooth tigers attack a mammoth, the mammoth could probably fight them off.

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