The Mammoth Exhibit
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It's size, about 13 feet at the shoulder, falls within the upper range of the Imperial Mammoth, a species larger than most Columbian mammoths. The vertebra from an old Columbian mammoth bull is significantly smaller than the Black Rock mammoth. In life, this Imperial Mammoth would have weighed about six and a half tons. Mammoths were grazers and browsers, meaning they ate grass, cattails, shrubs, willows and other trees. These animals were each able to find 400 pounds of food a day in the region now known as Nevada. |
Posted Dec. 1998
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