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Wool of mammoths is frequently found till now in areas
of frozen ground in Yakutia. Therefore scientist enough succeeded in learning it’s
structure. The wool of a mammoth consists of two parts: a soft light brown undercoat of
hairs with length 5-15 centimetres and a long covering hairs. A covering hairs are more
thicker and rigid, than undercoat. They hanged down on each side and from back as meter
length tresses of a rigid fulvous-brown and black hairs. Under a belly they were lowered
almost up to ground and organized original "skirt". From afar it was possible to
accept a mammoth for a driven woolen mountain. |
Mammoth hair from Museum of Siberian Natural
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