Mammoths

Mammoths were a species of land mammal that went extinct approximately 4,000 years ago. Elephant-like in appearance, mammoths were much larger than their ancestral cousins, bore very long tusks, and were covered in thick hair.
Although he is not officially classified as one, Mr. Snuffleupagus shares some characteristics with mammoths including his body structure, his multipurpose snuffle (trunk), and his long, shaggy fur (lacking tusks or any visible ears). He has been described as mammoth in size (as an adjective) by several sources, including a Children's Television Workshop press release for season 15.October 1983 Newsletter, via CTW Archives After Snuffy drains the water out of the swimming pool from Oscar's trash can in Sesame Street Episode 2971, an inconvenienced Oscar the Grouch calls him "mammoth-face," and later refers to him as a waterlogged mammoth.
When Big Bird dreamed his way into the distant past in The Adventures of Big Bird in Dinosaur Days, one of the many creatures he encounters with his dinosaur friend Duckie is a mammoth who he initially confuses for his lost friend Snuffy.
A scripted, but unproduced, Sesame Street TV special developed in the 1990s called Sesame Street Discovers America would have cast Snuffy and his mother as mammoths living in Alaska, suggesting that the Snuffleupagus species may indeed have been descended from mammoths.
Beginning in the mid-1990s, Jim Henson's Creature Shop created a series of commercials for Nissin Cup Noodles set during prehistoric times. Mammoths featured in several of the spots; at various times, a mammoth is stalked by a hungry mob of cavemen, squashes the caveman father when he's sent to hunt him, stirs a giant stew pot of noodles for a surrounding crowd of ritualistic primitives, and (in a variation of the latter) breathing fire in a bid to sell spicy curry.
The Creature Shop built a more elaborate, if cartoonish, mammoth for the 1994 film The Flintstones, re-appearing refurbished in the 2000 prequel The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (puppeteered by David Barclay and Kevin Carlson). In both movies, the creature can be seen in Wilma's kitchen serving in the role of a faucet, much as it did in the 1960s cartoon. 
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Category:Creatures
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