Mammoths, Mastodonts, and Elephants: Biology, Behavior and the Fossil Record

by Gary Haynes

Book Overview

The diminishing population of African and Asian elephants can be compared to the extinction of other elephant-like species, such as mammoths and mastodonts, which occurred more than ten thousand years ago. The purpose of this book is to use the ecology and behavior of modern elephants to create models for reconstructing the life and death of extinct mammoths and mastodonts. The source of the models is a long-term and continuing study of elephants...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521456916
• ISBN13: 9780521456913
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"