[Are you saying the mammoth was tropical?]
Absolutely...it is basically the same as an elephant. "Wooly" mammoth is exceedingly misleading..."Hairy" mammoth would be far more accurate. Not FUR....HAIR. Mammoths couldn't have survived in those latitudes for very long, once winter set in.
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"Wooly" mammoth is exceedingly misleading..."Hairy" mammoth would be far more accurate."
Oh yes. FAR more accurate. Twit.
"Not FUR....HAIR."
You're not very bright, are you?
"Mammoths couldn't have survived in those latitudes for very long, once winter set in."
Oh, obviously not. Anyone with brains can see that a creature covered with course, shaggy, dare I say wooly hair would most assuredly prefer a tropical climate.
I can assure you, the mammoth was NOT tropical. It would have been impossible for me to carry one, and with all that wooly hair/fur, they wouldn't go to the tropics on their own. Besides, there was an ICE AGE going on.
Any questions should be referred to Maronan, since he's helping me write this post. Maronan will NOT answer any questions about my air speed velocity.
So... Dr. Timberwolf, could you elucidate on the physiological differences between fur and hair?
Once you're done with that, I'd like your scientific explanation on why mammoths could not have survived in northern latitudes in winter.
(this should be good...)
Yup, yup, yo.
Yup, yup, yo.
Damn my IQ's
Mighty low.
This just in from ID.
Woolly Mammoths used to fly south for winter! Their hair/fur/cilia was actually ornate feathering that they could rotate at 300rpm, much like the much vaunted bacterial flagellum.
Most of them died in the great flood - they did really well staying aloft for a few months until the summer moult when they shed their feathers and drowned. The two mammoths on the ark, lost their hair from stress, due to being traumatised by mice and became elephants.
This is hilarious. This one deserves an Honorary Fundie Naturalist Prize or something like that. I swear, the more ignorant these people are, the more confidently they assert the wildest nonsense.
~David D.G.
Tropical? Of course. That is why so many bones and tusks have been found in Siberia, Alaska, Upper North America and off the coast of Denmark and Norway and other tropical getaways. And I guess the discoverers of the frozen mammoth carcassas with all that dense fur, were mistaken in applying the term "wooly" as a modifier. They should have asked Timberwolf first. Or should that be Woodwolf?
Smeagol/King Spirula -- well, considering how many maps portray Alaska as an island off the coast of Mexico, it's really puzzling to me as to why there's snow there at -all-. I mean, if it's near Mexico, it's gotta be tropical!
Yeah, so many tropical animals are covered in hair, while no northern animals were ever covered in hair. Just look at us Russians, Swedes, Finns, Norwegians, Inuits and Canadians. None of us have fur, right. And we still manage to survive in "those latitudes for very long, once winter set in". We are far superior to that puny, "hairy" elephant.
Confused?
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