Extinct Mammoths, Endangered Elephants

What caused the extinction of the mammoth at the end of the last ice age – climate change, human hunting, or a combination of the two? Coinciding with the Mammoths of the Ice Age exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland, Prof Adrian Lister of the Natural History Museum in London asks whether understanding the mammoth’s demise can help us to conserve their close relatives, the living elephants.

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk//mw954?id=EVENT472141