Hello ladies and gents this is the Viking telling you that today we are talking about
Woolly Mammoths
1. Woolly mammoths were big but not huge! They were about the size of a modern African elephant.
2. The coat of a woolly mammoth was made up of very long hairs with an undercoat of shorter hairs. This layering would help to keep them warm.
3. The ears of a woolly mammoth were shorter than a modern elephant’s ears. Like their thick coat of fur, their shortened ears kept them warm in the very cold weather.
4. Mammoths used their curved tusks to dig up the ground. They also used them to rub bark from the trees and to fight.
5. We can tell the age of a woolly mammoth from the rings of its tusk, like looking at the rings of a tree. There is a line for each year and the thickness or thinness of the rings tells us how well the mammoth was during that time. A thicker ring would suggest a good year with plenty of food.
And as always have a chilled day from the Viking
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