[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."
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.
So... Dr. Timberwolf, could you elucidate on the physiological differences between fur and hair?
Yup, yup, yo.
This just in from ID.
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.
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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