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I believe it was mainly climate change and loss of habitat during glacial retreat that caused Mammoth and other mega-fauna to die out. Human hunting was likely a minor contributor and nothing like the industrial slaughter of bison.


There is still plenty of tundra in Canada and Siberia where mammoths could still live today. Megafauna survived several cycles of climate change. They went extinct during the cycle when humans arrived.


Not true. Megafauna died out across the world in hundreds of different habitats when humans arrived and hunted them to extinction.




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