Woolly mammoths were grass-eating mammals that resembled elephants but with heavy coats, large tusks, and small ears that made them suited for extremely cold weather of the ice age. In addition to hunting by humans, which other conditions may have caused woolly mammoths to become less reproductively successful and eventually become extinct at the end of the last ice age?
Answer

Decreased grassland habitat size caused by a warmer climate

Decreased mammoth predator population size caused by warmer climate

Increased genetic variation in mammoth popu

Question

Woolly mammoths were grass-eating mammals that resembled elephants but with heavy coats, large tusks, and small ears that made them suited for extremely cold weather of the ice age. In addition to hunting by humans, which other conditions may have caused woolly mammoths to become less reproductively successful and eventually become extinct at the end of the last ice age?
    Answer
    		
    Decreased grassland habitat size caused by a warmer climate
    		
    Decreased mammoth predator population size caused by warmer climate
    		
    Increased genetic variation in mammoth popu

anonymous · Answer

ations in warmer latitudes
		
Increased production of offspring adapted to the changing environment