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Mammoths, Mastodonts, and Elephants
Gary Haynes
其他書名
Biology, Behavior and the Fossil Record
出版Cambridge University Press, 1991
主題Nature / FossilsScience / Life Sciences / EvolutionScience / Paleontology
ISBN05214569169780521456913
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=PRrZ-TK91LMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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 in Zimbabwe, Africa. These models are clearly described with respect to the anatomical, behavioral, and ecological similarities between past and present proboscideans. The implications of these similarities on the life and death of mammoths and mastodonts is explored in detail. The importance of this book is primarily its unifying perspective on living and extinct proboscideans: the fossil record is closely examined and compared to the natural history of surviving elephants. Dr. Haynes's studies of the places where African elephants die (so-called elephant burial grounds) are unique.