Mammuthus meridionalis (SciiFii)

The southern mammoth (Mammuthus meridionalis) is a species of mammoth native to Europe and Central Asia, originally lived from the Gelasian stage of the Early Pleistocene, living from 2.5–0.8 mya, and was once extinct, but has since been brought back from extinction by SciiFii and reintroduced back to its former range to help boost biodiversity. The southern mammoth is among the largest of the mammoths, with a shoulder height of about 13.1 feet (4 meters) and a weight of 10 tonnes (11 short tons). The southern mammoth has very little hair on its wrinkly body, due to living in a relatively warm habitats, such as temperate forests and grasslands, although it has slight blubber underneath its skin in case of any possible cold winters. Like other elephants, it is a herbivore that primarily feeds on a woodland diet of leaves and shrubs. It is a social herd-dwelling animal, with adult females as well as young males and females living together, which are leaded by the matriarch (female leader), but bull male southern mammoths live in mostly solitary lives unless it is breeding seasons, when males have musth and males find suitable females to mate with. The conservation status of the southern mammoth is Least Concern due to successful conservation efforts and the southern mammoth's wide natural range.
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