New hypothesis about the extinction of mastodons

Mastodon are members of Proboscidea's Mammut extinct genus and form the Mammutidae family. They are similar, but different from twisted feather mammoths. Unlike twisted fur mammoths, they do not belong to the Elephantidae family. Mastodon is an animal that mainly eats conifers and leaves with a way of eating leaves like elephants today, while mammoths are grazing animals.

Humans can play a role in the extinction of the mastodon after the last Ice Age (about 10,000 years ago) due to hunting and killing of the leading mastodon elephants, the UPI leads researchers save America said.

The killing of the largest male elephants for food caused the younger male elephants to fall into the "violent spiral" constantly, slaughtering each other to fight for dominance.

The picture depicts mastodon, a species close to the twisted feather mammoth - (Photo: Creation Moments)

This may have a big impact on the normal operation of mastodon, says University of Michigan paleontologist Daniel Fisher.

The mastodon's social structure has been severely degraded because adult males are killed and in my view this form is part of the extinction process, Daniel Fisher said.

According to the paleontologist, in a group of mastodons, adult male elephants play a role in regulating and controlling younger male elephants. However, when the largest ones were destroyed by ancient humans, stability was broken and all became hell with bloody "civil wars" .

According to Daniel Fisher, this form is similar to modern elephants, when poachers kill adult elephants to get tusks and leave younger elephants.