Your country could've had snow elephants walking around

>Your country could've had snow elephants walking around
>They died
Whos fault is it? I will beat up the one who did this

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Native Americans and Indo-Europeans

This place was full of them.
We have a Metro station with one of those as its symbol because they found it during construction

Probably Swedes.

Your ancestor

Mexico didn't have mammoth they had Mastodons

would be really shitty to have those around tbph
bet they would make a mess out of my yard

>be mud hut dweller in the far north
>asshole mammoth steps on your mudhut and kills your family
>he knows what he's doing
>dedicate your life to developing the methods to kill as many as possible

We had mammoths
Just translate with google
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most people don't know there were many different types of mammoth

people just think it was wooly mammoth and nothing else

There are still sum of them in Siberia

Drumpf is responsible as always

Mammoths are believed to have been more docile than elephants, one of the reasons they were hunt down to extinction, much like dodo birds. Due to their size they had no natural predator, and therefore never developed a complex fight-or-flight behavior (much like dodo birds). They were an easy prey to humans, which consequentially led to their demise.

what happened to blame Obama?
I miss Obama.

global warming did

but there were no human activity to blame it for so...

latest knowledge suggests that by the end mammoths were incredibly genetically sick creatures.

our hunting may or may not have contributed to that, it could have simply been an inability to adapt to changing environments quick enough led to them not being able to support large enough populations

Dwarven mammoth lived on Wrangel while Egyptians built their pyramids. Pretty cool.

I hope we manage to collect enough DNA so that future generations can reintroduce such vanished species.

and their meat provided nutrition for men and tusks materials for advanced weaponry. lets face it, animals go extinct all the time and the nature will always find ways to balance these losses of old prey/predator relationships.

Thanks, Drumpf! -just doesn't have the same impact as Obama did.

yeah, exactly. Good years are definitely behind us

I really do hope this happens. Mammoths just seem so neat

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There were lions in Europe back then, and saberteeth in America, as well as wolves and bears in either continent, didn't they hunt mammoths?

probably mammoth babies but not full grown mammoths

And doesn't the same apply to African elephants now? Why did one get aggressive and the other didn't? Furthermore, why did they never learn to identify humans as threats?

Maybe elephants had more time to adjust to homo presence. Whereas the arrival of humans in northern Eurasia was sudden.

Furthermore, elephants can hide in the jungles, whereas mammoths live on open steppes where they're easily spotted and killed.

We've got a nice mammoth in the Slovenian national museum, it's one of our most attractive exhibitions.

Actually the cause of mammoth extinction has been somewhat a mystery. It probably wasn't environmental change, as mammoths had seen plenty of those in the past. Humans hunting entire genus of megafauna into extinction seems unlikely too and there have been found one single mammoth corpse that was definitely killed by humans. Disease could be a possibility, but many other species vanished at the same time.

>Why did one get aggressive and the other didn't?
Matter of luck, that's how natural selection works. One developed the mutations needed to fend off humans, the other did not. 99% of all species that ever existed are extinct. The elephants' aggressive behaviour paired with its family behaviour helped them survive human expansion. Mammoths were docile and spread across the landscape, while elephants evolved to stay closely together to each other and be aggressive to other species, which made them impossible to be hunted until the age of firearms. Elephants developed that behaviour because they had predators daring enough to attack their young.

Another important detail to consider is that elephants were domesticated in northwest South Asia about 2000 years ago, and were widely used for war, religion, work and executions. Human domestication is always the best way to survive the greatest predator that ever existed, oddly enough.

>why did they never learn to identify humans as threats?
>There were lions in Europe back then, and saberteeth in America, as well as wolves and bears in either continent, didn't they hunt mammoths?
My guess is that smilodons, due to being lone hunters (unlike lions) were unable to hunt large animals. Entelodonts were able to solo hunt large prey because they were immense creatures and had exceptional jaw strength, but due to their massive size they also became extinct once their prey became extinct, as they were unable to hunt smaller animals, so another one bit the dust of natural selection, despite being a once formidable predator.

Even lions today avoid contact with elephants and rhinos because the risks outweigh the benefits. Being wounded by an elephant or rhino is always a death sentence to lions. And becoming large enough to hunt large prey has proven to be a suicidal evolutionary approach, so neither mammoths nor elephants had any actual predators, until humans rolled in. One was simply luckier than the other.

My ancestors :)

And the short answer to your question is: mammoths were docile and spread out because smilodons were lone hunters and therefore unable to hunt baby mammoths, as a single mammoth mother could easily fend off an attacker. Elephants on the other hand evolved to fend off pack hunters, like lions, and therefore had the behaviour required to fend off humans by staying together and being aggressive.

This video alone shows how tough elephants are, even young elephants heavily outnumbered by lions:
youtube.com/watch?v=10cX1tzMxFI

>wolves
Wolves are simply too small and weak for an animal the size and strength of a mammoth. Despite being great pack hunters able to take down fairly sizable prey, a pack of wolves would be no match for a mammoth mother. The thick layer of fur and skin alone would be enough to force the wolves to retreat and never bother going for a mammoth again.

>bears
Bears are lone, opportunistic hunters. They go for the easiest prey possible and avoid any contact that could potentially injure them and consume too much of their time. You can easily scare off a bear by waving your arms while shouting at it. They generally avoid conflict unless it's a mother with her cubs or a starving bear, so definitely not the type of animal that would hunt mammoths.

user.. there used to be lions in Europe

We ate them all

...

And they were also pack hunters, but they focused on hunting reindeer, horses and bisons instead of mammoths, for the same reason African lions prefer gazelles and zebras to elephants. They had an abundance of smaller, easier prey, so not worth risking a fatal injury trying to hunt down a mammoth unless you're starving and desperate. A large number of lions could potentially kill a mammoth or elephant by exhaustion, but again the risks outweigh the benefits.

cyprus had them! haha

Nobody is certain why they got extinct.
But we will have elephant-mammoth hybrids around soon enough.

In the ice age, sea level was 100m lower than today.
So Japan was connected with the continent in the era.
Elephant could came with walking to Japan.
We can find their bones here.