Climate - related nutritional stress is associated with delayed weaning in modern elephants, while hunting pressure is known to accelerate maturation in animals and would likely result in earlier weaning, according to Cherney and Fisher. (sciencedaily.com)
Woolly mammoths, the distant cousins of modern elephants, may have had the same social structures, the researchers suggest. (sciencenews.org)
Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi) may have moved like modern elephants with infants in matriarchal groups. (sci-news.com)