Timeline for How/why did extant megafauna (e.g. elephants, hippopotamuses) survive?
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| Oct 20, 2024 at 22:29 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Might that be because even if anyone wanted to eat, the hunting would not have been worth the trouble? What risk being stomped or gored by an elephant when you could so much more easily - and tastily - hunt virtually anything else? | |
| Oct 6, 2024 at 17:11 | comment | added | Roger V. | Some of these species are either close to extinction or have their populations significantly reduced. That they become extinct is a matter of time. | |
| Oct 6, 2024 at 14:14 | answer | added | Maj Knut 3rd Baron Cockwomble | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 5, 2024 at 19:15 | comment | added | ccprog | Late Pleistocene extinctions has a much more comprehensive discussion of the factors (as soon as you scroll past the enervating species lists). According to that, the most pressing case that needs explanation is the bison in North America: "By the end of the Pleistocene, when humans first entered North America, these large animals had been geographically separated from intensive human hunting for more than 200,000 years...bison would almost certainly have been very nearly as naive as native North American large mammals." | |
| Oct 5, 2024 at 17:40 | answer | added | T.E.D.♦ | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 5, 2024 at 17:36 | comment | added | MAGolding | Why do you say that surviving elephant species are slow moving? Maybe you should look at videos of elephants chasing people. I think the people in those videos didn't think that the elephants were slow moving. | |
| Oct 5, 2024 at 17:20 | answer | added | quarague | timeline score: -1 | |
| Oct 5, 2024 at 8:15 | answer | added | totalMongot | timeline score: -1 | |
| Oct 5, 2024 at 3:43 | history | asked | user103496 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |