From mammoth to elephant
The woolly mammoth is perhaps one of the most iconic animals of the ice age, mainly due to the fact that he is the ancestor of an animal that is popular today, the elephant. It was debated for a while as to which species of elephant the mammoth is closely related to, the Asian elephant or the African elephant. The former species was chosen by science because mammoths were smaller than African elephants and about the same size as Asian elephants. Their trunk patterns are also similar It happens to be co-incidence that the comparison involved in comparing the mammoth to the elephant does not revolve around that comparison alone but also to the world of the respective animals of that time. I have noticed that the world of the woolly mammoth bears some similarity to the world of the Asian elephant in Kaziranga national park in Assam, Northeast India and this analogy examines the similarities as well as differences between the world of the Asian elephant and the world of the now-e...