“In many species, males tend to do somewhat stupid things that end up getting them killed in silly ways, and it appears that may have been true for mammoths also,” said Love Dalén, an evolutionary biologist from the Swedish Museum of Natural History. From the NYTimes.
The mammoth was a mighty beast; his feet did shake the ground.
His trumpet roar was hideous and heard for miles around.
But when he tried to take a mate by stamping on the ice,
He sunk into the muddy ground and now sleeps with the gneiss.
The dinosaur had massive brawn, though cousin to the birds;
He could thrash and crash and mash opponents into curds.
But after making sure his mate had laid her eggs discrete,
He trampled on them tenderly -- and now is obsolete.
And so dumb beasts of male persuasion silly things will do.
That is why we like to watch them living in the zoo.
Human males are also prone to posturing unwise --
Will they too disappear for good beneath much better skies?
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