Dick mole at an excavation. Photo: Wilrie van Logchem
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interview with Dick Mol, an internationally recognized Dutch mammoth expert from Hoofddorp near Amsterdam
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Question: The mammoth was described in 1799 by the German scholar Johann Friedrich Blumenbach scientific first know you are putting on this animal's trunk?
Answer: Yes, we think we know everything, but there is always something to learn. That the mammoths are extinct, everyone knows. But what has caused the extinction. Furthermore, we are still not clear. Interdisciplinary studies can contribute. As the environment has looked the mammoth, why is their habitat disappeared? There is still much to learn. Have a social life out the mammoths as today's elephants? Furthermore, we know very little. Also, since we can learn from the fossil very much. Why must the subject mammal paleontology are supported. If we understand the past of the animals, we may be successful in a position to protect the animals in Africa.
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book by Dick Mol German:
Dick Mol / Christian de Marliave / Bernard Buigues: Mammut Search in Siberia.
Roseni Verlag, ISBN 3981046927
http://www.amazon.de/Mammutsuche-Sibirien-Dick-Mol/dp/3981046927
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