Mammoths
Imagine walking down the street and finding a mammoths bone. As a fact, 2 people from DuPage county were hiking in the forest and found the mammoths bone. Mammoths were the woolly elephant like animals with long curved tusks. Mammoths were the biggest woolly animals on earth. Most of the mammoths used to leave in cold environment and they became extinct about 12,000 years ago. The mammoths became extinct because of Climate Change, Human Hunting and Hyper Disease.
Over the years global temperature has been increasing democratically, therefore climate change is one of the causes of mammoth’s extinction. Mammoths are large woolly animals that lived in cold climate. According to the Illinois state museum the temperature of the earth
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Hunting mammoths was more profitable for humans than hunting other animals. The mammoths were woolly with large tusks. The Mammoths tusks were used to make hunting tools and others sharp tools. The woolly skins were used to make cloths, and the meat form the Mammoths were used as food. According to Science Daily Human came to North America from Asia about
22,000 years ago around the same time when the global temperature started to increase. During this time Many Mammoths migrated to different area and humans killed the rest of them. According to the live Science Human killed about 1/3 Mammoths in North America. In calculation, Mammoths became extinct as a result of climate change, Human Hunting and Hyper Disease. Climate change was the most plausible cause of the Mammoths extinction, it cause mammoths to move to different environment where they were not adapted. Human Hunting was the second most probable cause of Mammoths extinction, since human killed 1/3 remaining mammoths. Hyper Disease was the last responsible cause of the mammoths extinction, since hyper disease killed remaining Mammoths on
The Bering Strait did not provide much vegetation, which lead to less animals to be hunted. The early people had to make do with smaller mammals for food resources. It is theorized that larger mammals, such as wooly mammoths, would not be able to survive on the little vegetation that grew on the Bering Strait. Towards the end of the ice age the Bering Strait started to get smaller causing the few animals that
He accredited the extinction of these extraordinary animals to the “…combination of climatic change and the spread of highly skilled hunters,” (Taylor 8). The natives did not know how their excessive hunting would have such an effect - they just did what they had to do to survive.
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Home to a large Pleistocene fossil site, Saltville, Virginia has revolutionized modern archeology. The locality is especially significant because of unique interactions that took place between animals and humans 15,000 years ago. There has been recent evidence uncovered that Paleo-humans and the mammals in the surrounding Appalachian region interacted and the humans relied on the animals for survival. The deep history preserved in the land of Saltville reveals a past ecosystem that drew megafauna to its locality. The region, rich with life, is the second oldest known Pre-Clovis site in the Americas, marking its significance in history and archeology.
Chapter Review (pg. 6-29) A: Human migration across the globe was the complete spread of the human species over much of the earth’s surface. The species began in eastern Africa; most types of humans come from this region, in the present day countries of Tazmania, Kenya, and Uganda. Main discoveries, especially fire and the use of animal skins for clothing-both of which allowed people to live in colder climates-facilitated the spread of Paleolithic groups. The first people moved out of Africa about 750,000 years ago.
From resting and birthing to nursing newborn seals, the seals try their best to survive. Why are these animals extinct, then? The monk seals main predators are humans and mainly sharks. People overhunting and catch these seals for food and for their oil and sharks eat them, these are the reasons for the seals extinction. NOAA’S Fisheries Service said that monk seals have gone extinct for the reasons.
Finally, many may argue that human contributions such as hunting, poaching, etc. caused the decline of elk. Hunting did cause a decline in elk however the mass declination of elk came from the wolves being reintroduced. It incited fear into the elk as they would avoid certain areas to avoid the wolves territories. These areas had a better chance of vegetation to grow and animals and insects that wolves don’t eat, to migrate to those areas. The soil in the area were not disturbed as much as when the elks were there.
Indians quickly adopted the animal as a means of transportation and to hunt more efficiently. This was transformative to Indian culture and made hunting much easier. In fact, many Indians abandoned farming to start hunting Buffalo. Prior to this, North America
These lines of primates that were being forced out of their homes and made to relocate eventually became virtually extinct because of the overall increase in temperature.
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They used traps and stone knives as animals present during the ice age were giants and very dangerous. For example, beavers were three times its size now. The saber-toothed cats were very dangerous as their teeth were very huge and sharp. All animals present in this period were covered with huge amounts of furs and humans hunted them for their fur as
Due to the fact that only Native Americans were in the Oregon Territory, and they used animal products efficiently and did not hunt unless it was necessary, the animal population was very high. The main animal hunted by trappers were beavers. Their fur had become a commodity due to the near extinction of the creature from over hunting. “The possibility of profiting from the western beaver trade had led,”(McNeese OL) many to the territory in search of wealth and fame.
Amongst Europeans, fur clothing was popular, and the new abundance of fur bearing animals in North America fed their desires. The fur trade did however destroy the beliefs of Native American culture. The European fur trade upset the balance of the American ecosystem, enticing Native Americans to over hunt their land and go against the traditions that kept their land abundant for centuries. European traders came to America and traded with Natives for the pelts of animals. This resulted in beaver fur traders’ supply getting so low that they “could flatly declare that they had none,” The beaver, along with other fur bearing animals, had been hunted so extensively that the species became scarce.
Besides, they used them as a means of transport and traded with other Native Americans. These animals were used for sports like horse racing and other activities such as hunting for the dogs. Therefore, this action led to the increase of the animal population and the Native land due to
In recent years, there has been an ongoing debate as to what caused the extinction of the Neanderthals around forty thousand years ago. Some researchers speculate that Neanderthals did not develop sufficient tools that would allow them to gather and hunt food efficiently while others speculate that early modern humans introduced deadly pathogens into Neanderthal populations which led to their extinction. However, researchers led by zooarchaeologist Jamie Hodgkins have found that frequent and lengthy glacial periods may have led to the extinction of the Neanderthals. They hypothesized that glacial periods may have reduced the quantity of prey that the Neanderthals hunted therefore they were unable to intake the required amount of food to survive.