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Physical Characteristics
The woolly mammoth, also called the tundra mammoth, is an extinct species of mammoth. Woolly mammoths lived in two groups (maybe subspecies). Woolly mammoths had a number of adaptations to the cold, most famously the thick layer of shaggy hair, up to 1 meter in length with a fine underwool, for which the woolly mammoth is named. Woolly mammoths had extremely long tusks - up to 5 m (16 ft) long - which were markedly curved, to a much greater extent than those of elephants.

Habitat
This Woolly Mammoth is known from bones and frozen carcasses from the 'mammoth steppe' - the plains of northern North America and northern Eurasia with the best preserved carcasses in Siberia. One group stayed in the middle of the high Arctic, while the other group had a much wider range.

Behaviour

Breeding

Diet
Mammoths were herbivorous, grazing and browsing grasses, sedges and twigs.

Strange and Interesting Facts
It was generally assumed that the last woolly mammoths vanished from Europe and Southern Siberia about 10,000 BC, but new findings show that some were still present there about 8,000 BC. Only slightly later, the woolly mammoths also disappeared from continental Northern Siberia. The Mammoth in the Ice Age Movies is called Manfred.