Where does a mammoths live?

Answer 1

Some researchers have doubts that mammoths lived in the cold climate zones. Recently, Russian scientists have received strong evidence of woolly mammoths' frost-resistance - they possessed sebaceous glands. The trip to visit mammoths was paid by the International Scientific and Technical Center, and the researchers' search for sebaceous glands was supported by the Federal Target Scientific and Technical Program entitled "Investigations and Developments for Science and Engineering Priority Guidelines in 2002-2006".

Specialists of the VECTOR State Research Center for Virology and Biotechnology and the Zoological Institute (Russian Academy of Sciences) have discovered sebaceous glands in the skin of woolly mammoths, the scientific community unsuccessfully looking for sebaceous glands for more than a hundred years. As sebaceous glands are an instrument of adaptation to cold climate, the discovery by Russian scientists serves a convincing argument in the dispute whether the mammoths did live in the frost.

Answer 2

From studying the intestines in frozen mammoth remains, we are able to identify exactly what the diet of woolly mammoths was.
We know from studying their remains, that woolly mammoths ate herbaceous plants (herbs), flowering plants, shrubs, mosses and matter from trees.
The woolly mammoth had evolved a "two-fingertip" trunk which enabled them to "pick up" and eat the short grasses and shrubbery that were a part of their diets in the last ice age. In comparison, modern elephants wrap their trunks around tall tufts of grass and yank them up.

We also know from studying the intestines of some frozen mammoths which have been recovered that they, particularly the younger ones, ate faecal matter. The most famous mammoth studied for this are the recovered frozen remains of a calf who has been named Lyuba, who is the world's most preserved mammoth specimen and currently "resides" in a museum in Salekhard, Russia. The faecal matter, we believe, was digested, particularly by younger mammoths, to help promote intestinal microbes, which aided the digestion of heavy vegetation.


Further Reading

• You can learn more about woolly mammoths by visiting the Wikipedia page.
• I also recommend a book to you, called "Mammoths: Ice Age Giants", by Adrian Lister. Click here to see it.

Here is a good one-hour long official National Geographic documentary on mammoths, which may interest you:

Answer 3

Mammoths lived on grassy plains from the Arctic to the tropics. Their remains have been found in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America. Different species lived in different areas, for example, the woolly mammoth lived in the tundra and the Columbian mammoth lived in temperate to tropical grasslands.

Answer 4

Yes. Not only woolly mammoths, but other species, such as the Columbian mammoth (native to North America) lived during the last Ice Age.

Answer 5

Mammoths are extinct, although they (wooly mammoths) existed during the ice age period.

Answer 6

The Woolly mammoth used its incisors (tusks) to dig in the snow and pick up plants and tree parts to eat.

Answer 7

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