Talk:Woolly mammoth

One could make a case that the hairy elephant is not the better known wooly mammoth but the Columbian mammoth (M. columbi) that was bigger and lived in a temperate climate south of the tundra inhabited by the wooly mammoth. Interestingly, while the Columbian mammoth is often pictured as hairless or near hairless like an elephant to account for this (and I think the image in the article is in fact of a Columbian mammoth for this reason), this is purely speculative since I don't think there are preserved skins like those of wooly mammoths, yet a 2007 study of Columbian mammoth dung (no kidding) from Utah found hair on it.Eljuma (talk) 02:41, March 15, 2013 (UTC)