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What characteristics of a person can elephants determine by his voice?

Studies of savannah elephants have shown that they can determine a person's language, age and gender by the voice of a person. When the voices of the Maasai men who hunt elephants with spears were played to the animals, they began to gather together and cover the children. Elephants did not show such a reaction when playing the voices of Maasai women and children, as well as farming men of the neighboring Kamba tribe.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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What is a mammoth?

The word "mammoth" in our country often denotes something colossal, of enormous size. But once upon a time, there was an animal called a mammoth. The mammoth looked like an elephant and lived in many places throughout the earth, but mammoths have not survived to our time.

Although this ancient species of elephant was called a "mammoth", it was about the size of a modern Indian elephant. He had a pointed skull and very unusual tusks that twisted in a spiral, and their tips were directed towards each other.

Distinguished this elephant from those that we are used to seeing, and made it unlike anyone else, the long hair covering the body of a mammoth. It was so long that it reached the ground. He had a large hump at the back of his head, and his ears were small. The whole body of this animal was covered with a garment of yellow-brown wool, and the long, black, rougher fur broke through it. Wool also grew on the ears. The first thing we would say to a mammoth if he suddenly met us: "Go get your hair cut!"

It is quite understandable that an animal in such a fur coat felt quite comfortable even in a cold climate. And the mammoth is the only elephant species that has ever lived that is at home in cold and even arctic climates. Therefore, he lived quite well in Siberia, and he lived there, apparently, until relatively recently.

In other places, such as England and France, mammoths lived only until the end of the ice age. And when England warmed up between the two ice ages, the mammoth went north following the receding ice.

In the same period, mammoths also lived in North America, and some of them reached 4 meters in height. Due to their enormous weight, mammoths often got stuck in the icy mud, which subsequently froze. Therefore, mammoths are still sometimes found in well-preserved form in places like Siberia.

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