Wikipedia and Mammoths
I can't quite remember how I got to this page, but I've found myself browsing Wikipedia articles on Mammoths.

The first thing that made me chuckle was the article on "Lyuba" - a one month old female mammoth calf, found preserved in Siberia by a deer farmer. Why Lyuba? He named this mummified mammoth...after his wife. Flattery will get you everywhere.

Also: "In the late nineteenth century, there were, according to Bengt Sjögren (1962), persistent rumors about surviving mammoths hiding in Alaska."

I like the idea that mammoths survived and just made a collective decision that they would hide from us. I now have the childish but nevertheless hilarious image of a mammoth trying to make itself small behind a fir tree with a group of hunters just metres away from it looking befuddled...

Just thought I'd share that with you all...
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 9 Jun 2009, 13:54, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Wikipedia is great for some decent, honest procrastination...
The fella who discovered the mammoth should've said to the assembled crowd: "My God! Its nearly as well hung as me!"
( SpankyHanky, Tue 9 Jun 2009, 14:10, Reply)

I think he should've called it an Elephurr
Because it's like a furry elephant see?
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Tue 9 Jun 2009, 14:47, Reply)

They all dye their hair white to blend with the snow
Thus how mammoths are able to hide in Alaska.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Tue 9 Jun 2009, 18:05, Reply)