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i dont know but i think they use them to frighten other animals/creatures

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How did the earliest California use mammoths?

They used their tusks as tools


How big were mammoths tusks?

about 10 feet long


Are there any mammoths with 4 tusks?

An ancient mammoth that I do not know about.


Are elephants not mammoths?

Elephants are less hairy than mammoths and do not posses such large tusks. Elephants are not extinct, while mammoths are.


What do mammoths have in common?

1. All mammoths had long, dramatically curved tusks. 2. All mammoths had longer forelimbs than hind limbs. 3. All mammoths were grazers.


Did the mammoths beocme extinct because the ice age was over?

Mammoths became extinct from people hunting them for their tusks and fur.


What did the mammoth use its tusks for?

Their tusks are teeth; the second set of incisors become the tusks. They are used for digging for food, for fighting during mating season, and for defense against predators.


Why are the tusks of mammoths not preserved?

There are mammoth tusks that have been preserved. In fact, there was a trade of mammoth ivory from carcasses even after they were long extinct.


What was the wooly mammoths diet?

Woolly Mammoths ate kfc, McDonald's, unicorns, people, dinosaur's, plastic, atomic bombs, broken glass, metal, airplanes, their legs and their tusks


What are facts about the mammoth?

Mammoths are not the ancestors of the modern elephant. Mammoths had hairy coats and large tusks. The Woolly Mammoth was about 11 feet tall and weighed 6 to 8 tons.


Are elephant tusks hollow?

Yes, some tusks are hollow; and no, some aren't. For example, the tusks of elephants, hippopotamuses, mammoths, walruses, and whales are mostly solid. But the narwhal tusk is hollow, as is that of the wild boar for much of its length.


Woolly mammoths adaptations to the cold?

they had long, thick fur to keep out the cold. Their tusks would help get prey.