The first step on our trip to South Dakota was a mammoth dig site in Hot Springs. I must admit I was little skeptical to go to the site. The Black Hills are littered with tourists traps and I thought this place might not be any different. However, it turned out to be a nice little non-profit dedicated to continuing mammoth research. Basically the site used to be a pre-historic sinkhole that the not-so- bright mammoths would fall into and not be able to get out. I don't know what it means but of the sixty mammoths they have found so far all of them are male.
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Hmmm. Gay mammoths? Go figure.
Many of the male's struck out on their own away from the herd. The theory is that the animals in the herd where the females lived were protected from the females from going near the sinkhole.
The males who were usually alone were desperate for food and water. The hole was a hot spring so grass may have been growing around it even in winter.
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