Mammoth v. Mastodon

Another shorter video comparing two of the most well known “Ice Age" Animals, The American Mastodon and The Wooly Mammoth.

Wikipedia Articles for the animals if you want to learn more about them:
MAMMUTHUS COLOMBI (Columbian Mammoth)

Note: A lot of these articles are really low information, and honestly you would be better looking them up on other websites. Some of these creatures (like zygolophodon) deserve way more on them then what Wikipedia has.

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[CamberRockerCamber]

Another huge difference is that the mastodon can combine with the T-rex, triceratops, sabertooth tiger, and pterodactyl to form a Megazord.

[LZC]

A very nice difference between the mammoths and Mastodons is that Mastodon are innate skilled to play heavy metal

[jarniwoop]

I read an article about how the Hawthorn tree was adapted to the mastodon's browsing habits. It produces edible fruit attractive to the mastodon but sports large thorns to keep them from browsing on it's branches. Pretty smart.

[bkjeong]

Another big difference is that mastodons were actually ill-suited to glacial conditions and did better in warmer intervals (like the one we're in now). Needless to say, this has massive implications about why they went extinct.

[kennethsatria]

Mastodons are basically horizontal mammoths

[Akron]

Fun fact: mammoths were still around when the pyramids were being built.

[horvathbenedek]

"No, Step-Mammoth, what are you doing with your trunk!"

[frankburns]

Southern Mammoth: "Hi, I'm a southern mammoth."
Also Southern Mammoth: "Yeah Ima just go ahead and move north."

[vladprus]

Am I the only one who thinks treating mamooths as "related to elephants" and not just "elephants" is weird, given:
1. They are not that much different from the rest of elephants
2. They are INSIDE of modern elephant cladogram? (mamooths and Indian elephant ancestors splitting later than ancestors of both with ancestors of African elephants)
I mean, the only reason we consider them different is the fact they gone extinct on early stage of human civilization and they were always "those extinct animals" for "scientific community". If they survived longer we most likely would think of them as just another type of elephant next to African and Indian.

[dipz]

1:04 nobody asked but that mammoth is in my home town of Victoria and I always find it so cool to see it on the ice age videos I’m obsessed with

[richardzeitz]

Human narrator, human scriptwriter/researcher! Good for you. And good job! I'm subscribing. We need more creators like you on YouTube.

[maximaldinotrap]

"Mammoths were still pretty similar to elephants"

If it is in Elephantidae it is an elephant.

[lemmingscanfly]

I've seen that big mammoth statue (with ox fur) IRL so many times I couldn't say since I live an hour away from the museum, it's pretty cool, they actually keep the room cold and the mammoth surrounded by ice.

[virgilherring]

Silverado is one of my favorite movies of all time. I could watch it every day and never get tired of it.

[guardrailbiter]

When Daddy Mastodon re-married and brought home the Steppe Mammoth, they got straight to work trying to conceive the unholy abomination we call the Mammastodon.

[Vincent-ndpj]

Oh man the mammoth skeleton with the next behind it is from a science place in my home town, there is a tunnel with a window look up at it under it, seeing it brought back memories

[aquafer]

The level of relationship is understated by the species tree. A Mastodon, Mammoth and elephants-- although distinct species --are not that much more distinct than, for example, a Tiger and a Lion. If all three of Mastodons, Mammoth, and elephants were alive today we'd be probably calling them all "elephants" species... just like we call tigers and lions "cats".

[eldewgzborracho]

Mastodon is one of my favorite bands right now.

[nexusmc]

FIRST SECONDS ARE LITERALLY A WESTERN DUEL, LET'S

[pmd_birdman]

I really enjoy the precedence this video sets for future TBD vids, although I find the concept of the video less interesting, I enjoy the small power videos which are well researched and comical (the beginning! Laughed my bootie off)