Woolly Mammoth

Wooly mammoths became extinct around 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. Nobody is sure why. It may be because of climate change or possibly over hunting by humans. There is also a possibility that some of them interbred with elephants amd their genes are intermingled with modern elephants.

Like elephants today, the Woolly Mammoth were social animals, and the females lived in related groups or herds.

Until the male mammoth reached the age of three to four years of age, he also lived with this group of closely related females. At that age, he started exploring his world and left the group behind. For two to three years after he left the female herd, he may have lived with a nomadic band of other male like age mammoths. This was called a bachelor herd.

Males were not usually related to each other in the bachelor herd, and came and went as they chose. As the males reached the age of 20, they no longer associated with herds of either sex unless it was time to breed.

As the world got warmer the woolly mammoth habitat decreased their source of food and as the human population grew the more hunters their was around to hunt the mammoths so that could drove the last of the mammoths to extinction

The food chain would have not been altered severely due to the charactaristics of the mammoth: Being its size it had very few natural predators (with the excpetion of human beings) meaning very little life depened on consuming the mammoth, it has been know that the Sabre tooth tiger used to bring them down in packs however the chances of this would have been rare and they most likely resorted on smaller prey.

The lifespan of the mammoth approximately 90 years ment that scavengers would not deppend on it either. It can be argued that as mammoths grazed grass and plant populations led to a slight increase but this does not afeect food chains to any extremity.

Mammoths had too many adaptations to list. However, I can tell you about some of the adaptations they had to survive in cold climates.

1. Mammoths had a large mass, in most cases larger than modern elephants. The more mass an animal has, the less heat and energy it loses to keeping warm.

2. Small ears helped to conserve heat.

3. Thick fur and a layer of fat served as effective insulation to keep mammoths warm.

Female woolly mammoths lived in herds of related females and their calves. Adult males probably lived alone. They probably spent 20+ hours grazing per day, and spent other time sleeping. At the same time, females and calves found enough time to socialize. They would have constantly moved around to find more food and to avoid overgrazing any one area.

Mammoths looked similar to elephants except for a few differences.

First, they had very long, curved tusks. Second, they had long, brown hair for insulation. Third, they had tiny ears compared to modern elephants. Fourth, they had longer forelimbs than hind limbs, whereas modern elephants have relatively equal length limbs and a mostly level back, mammoths did not.

Mammoths were similar to elephants except for a few features. Those features are:

1. Mammoths had longer forelimbs than hind legs. Thus, their back sloped forward, whereas elephants have a level back.

2. They had longer, dramatically curved tusks when compared to modern elephants.

3. They were covered in long fur.

4. Mammoths had tiny ears compared to elephants.

Predators of woolly mammoth calves and potentially adults included Smilodon, Homotherium, lions, and cave hyenas. Humans were their most formidable predator, possibly even having hunted them to extinction.

No, mammoths didn't live in Antarctica. It's too cold there, and there is no food chain for any animal.

Not usually frozen ground, but ice itself. Ice preserves carcasses better because the air capsules in the ice balance the oxygen levels. Ice and frozen ground in ancient siberia stays frozen ground. And it works as a near perfect preserve.

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It only have one baby at a time but might only have one in there whole life time.

Not any more. Its extinct.

Up to 16 feet long

It lived in Russia 100,000 mya to10,000 years ago

The Woolly Mammoth is a Herbivore, meaning it only eats plant matter.

in Russia and Europe then migrated to north America across beringia

The wooly mammoth lived in the Cenozoic era, the Tertiary period, Pleistocene epoch, and the Calabrian age.

YES! millionssss and millionsss years ago

Wooly mammoths were roughly the same sizes as modern elephants, males averaging 9 to 11 feet tall, and females reaching up to 8 or 9ft.

The mammoth were monstrous at birth, weighing in at 200lb, and growing up to be a massive 6-7 ton creature. The physical structures and adaptations of the woolly mammoth was it's greatest asset in the cold environment during the ice age. Covered in longer hairs on the outer

layer, and short guard hairs closer to the body, heat loss wasn't a problem, it also had shorter ears than the modern African element that it resembles, in order to prevent frostbite. Lastly, the mammoth had large tusks, which were replaced six times throughout their lifetime, and used these tusks for working with objects, fighting prey and other mammoths, and foraging.

The wooly mammoth could be said to be the cause of most of the problems in modern society, and my everyday life, as the mammoths thrived mainly in Eurasia, henceforth, the mammoths were hunted in by Euro-Asian communities. These communities thrived due to the mammoth, and continued to due so, these communities thrived for generations, and these generations gave birth to some of the most treacherous men in world history (e.g Hitler), men who caused wars my relatives fought in, or faced the repercussions from. Because my family basically fought against the mammoths that caused the downfall of modern society, i am where i stand today. I am free because the woolly mammoths are extinct

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Thursday, March 6th, 2014

Vol XCIII, No. 311

Habitat and Niche

Mammuthus Primigenius

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The primary habitat in which the Woolly Mammoth resided in was the Arctic Tundra, across the northern parts of Eurasia and Northern America

During the winter it is very cold and dark, with the average temperature around −28 °C (−18 °F), sometimes dipping as low as −50 °C (−58 °F).

Generally daytime temperatures during the summer rise to about 12 °C (54 °F) but can often drop to 3 °C (37 °F) or even below freezing.

The specific niche of the mammoth was very similar to that of a modern elephant.....just colder.....hence the wool......it ate the sparse vegetation found throughout the tundra, grass and sedge. As a herbivore, it's role in nature was a primary producer, a large source of meat for predators.

WOOLLY MAMMOTHS:EXTINCT

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The woolly mammoth started to die out late in Pleistocene epoch.

At first, it was said the cause of death is either the vast climate change, humans, or a mix of both.

The idea that climate lead to their death has been ruled however due to the fact that the species was alive around 1700 B.C, at that the point had already changed climate significantly since the last ice age, therefore scientist believe that mammoths were either overhunted or died by disease

They were over-hunted due to the fact that they were such a large supply of meat and their fur was extremely useful.

Supposedly, the woolly mammoth still rooms the sparse and rarely inhabited taigas of Alaska and Russia. In the 19th century, Russian tribesmen reported seeing, "large furry creatures, the size of elephants."

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Woolly mammoths probably only attacked animals who they considered threats, like modern elephants do today. For example, the leader of an elephant herd, the matriarch, will charge at animals, including humans, if it feels they are a threat to the rest of the herd, although most of the time it is just a bluff. Male elephants, however, do fight with each other over females, although it rarely results in injury.

It is a mammal, for it gave live birth. It was the ancestor of the modern day elephant.

There are many present day animals that are relatives of the woolly mammoth. The Elephant is the most recognizable, but, there are in fact others such as the Rat, leopard and Turkey are all relatives as well.