--- title: Ice Age: real woolly mammoths — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Ice Age: real woolly mammoths», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In the film Ice Age, Manny the mammoth plods through the snow in shaggy fur, with small ears, a short tail and great curling tusks, and he l --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Ice Age: real woolly mammoths # Ice Age: real woolly mammoths Lesson 130 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 20 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/0/) — In the film Ice Age, Manny the mammoth plods through the snow in shaggy fur, with small ears, a short tail and great curling tusks, and he looks like a hairy elephant. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/1/) — Manny is a fair picture: real woolly mammoths were close relatives of elephants, closest of all to the Asian elephant, about as tall as an African elephant, with two coats of hair and a fatty hump. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/2/) — Small ears and a short tail kept the cold out, because big ears lose heat; that is useful in hot Africa but dangerous on a frozen plain. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/3/) — We know all this because frozen ground in Siberia works like a freezer: baby mammoths have been found almost whole, one still with milk in her stomach, and Ice Age people painted mammoths on cave walls. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/4/) — The film gets the ending wrong: most mammoths died out about 10,000 years ago as the climate warmed and people hunted them, though a last small group lived on Wrangel Island until about 4,000 years ago. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/5/) — Woolly mammoths lived during the last Ice Age; their fur was up to about 90 centimetres long in places, with a woolly undercoat, long guard hairs and a thick layer of fat. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/6/) — Woolly mammoths had small ears and short tails, much smaller than an African elephant's, which kept heat in and were less likely to freeze. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/7/) — Mammoth tusks could be up to about 4 metres long and curved strongly upward and inward; they were used to sweep snow off grass, to fight and maybe to show off. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/8/) — Mammoth tusks have rings inside like tree rings, which scientists read to learn how the animal lived year by year. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/9/) — Frozen ground called permafrost works like a freezer; a baby mammoth called Lyuba, who died about 42,000 years ago, was found almost whole by a reindeer herder in 2007, with milk still in her stomach. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/10/) — Mammoths and early people lived at the same time; people hunted them, painted them in caves, and in parts of Ukraine built huts with mammoth bones as the frame. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/11/) — Most woolly mammoths died out about 10,000 years ago, but a small group lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until about 4,000 years ago, when the Egyptian pyramids were already standing. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/12/) — Mammoths were close relatives of today's elephants, closest of all to the Asian elephant, as scientists found by comparing DNA. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/13/) — Mammoths mostly ate grass and low plants of a cold, dry grassland called the mammoth steppe, perhaps over 150 kilograms a day, because grass gives little energy and a huge body in the cold needs a lot, ground by brick-sized ridged teeth. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/14/) — Woolly mammoths were about 3 metres tall at the shoulder, about as tall as an African elephant; the steppe mammoth and the Columbian mammoth could be over 4 metres. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/15/) — Mammoths had a fatty hump on their backs that stored energy for the hard winters. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/16/) — Ice Age people painted and carved mammoths in caves in France and Spain, and Rouffignac cave in France is called «the cave of a hundred mammoths»; the painters drew the hump and sloping back that frozen mammoths found much later really had, so they drew from life. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/17/) — Mammoth bones and teeth are dug up in many countries, including Britain, Germany, Ukraine and the United States, because mammoths roamed widely across the northern half of the world. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/18/) — Dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago, more than 60 million years before any mammoth lived. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/19/) — Some scientists hope to make cold-proof elephants with some mammoth features, but it has not been done, and many people question whether it should be. - ← previous: [The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps/) - next →: [Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)