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Old 03-28-2010, 07:22 AM
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Sounds like a fun adventure. One question though... why would there be woolly mammoths on a jungle island? Wouldn't jungle suggest a tropical or semi-tropical climate. I think the poor mammoths would die out in one generation, maybe two. Elephants on the other hand... Asian elephants love jungle.
There is an island off California where there were mammoths (or mastodons?). They migrated there while the island was still connected to the mainland during the Ice Age; as the Ice Age ended and the island became an island, the group there became pygmy mammoths, to the point that they were only about the size of buffaloes. So Weswood's island could have mammoths -- they'd just be smaller.

Of course, the population of mammoths on that island eventually died out due to depletion of resources and a small breeding population, so maybe not...
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