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mammoths

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Every paragraph the index cites under mammoths, once, in the order of the book. Beside each stand the entries that cite it.

61:5.7These first two ice in­va­sions were not ex­ten­sive in Eura­sia. Dur­ing these early epochs of the ice age North Amer­ica was over­run with mastodons, woolly mam­moths, horses, camels, deer, musk oxen, bi­son, ground sloths, gi­ant beavers, saber-toothed tigers, sloths as large as ele­phants, and many groups of the cat and dog fam­i­lies. But from this time for­ward they were rapidly re­duced in num­bers by the in­creas­ing cold of the glacial pe­riod. To­ward the close of the ice age the ma­jor­ity of these an­i­mal species were ex­tinct in North Amer­ica.

61:7.13The rig­or­ous glacial pe­riod de­stroyed many species and rad­i­cally changed nu­mer­ous oth­ers. Many were sorely sifted by the to-and-fro mi­gra­tion which was made nec­es­sary by the ad­vanc­ing and re­treat­ing ice. Those an­i­mals which fol­lowed the glaciers back and forth over the land were the bear, bi­son, rein­deer, musk ox, mam­moth, and mastodon.

61:7.14The mam­moth sought the open prairies, but the mastodon pre­ferred the shel­tered fringes of the for­est re­gions. The mam­moth, un­til a late date, ranged from Mex­ico to Canada; the Siberian va­ri­ety be­came wool cov­ered. The mastodon per­sisted in North Amer­ica un­til ex­ter­mi­nated by the red man much as the white man later killed off the bi­son.

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Cited alongside: mastodons, woolly mammoths, bison, musk oxen