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Does a Mammoth Crap in the Woods?

By Gregon

The latest cryptozoological sensation on teh intartubes. Is this video of a live woolly mammoth?

Mammoth, or just a bear carrying a fish in its mouth? Mr. Snuffleupagus perhaps? As with all anomalous videos, the questions that need to be asked are things like: what happened before and after the video? Did they follow it, or at least alert authorities who would be able to track it?

In short: fun video, but a lot more information and context needed from serious investigators before anyone should treat it seriously. In the meantime, here’s a tabloid report.

(thanks for the heads-up Kapryan Kennedy)

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23 Comments

  1. A Mammoth Tale
    If it’s a woolly mammoth, the trees would be from planet Endor and gigantic. The scale is way off, definitely a bear. I remember a lake monster video from a few years back, which conveniently ended before the cryptobeast was about to leave the water — and reveal a moose. This video ends the same way, because as soon as the cryptobeast is on dry land, it’ll be easy to identify. Selective editing. 😉

    Elsewhere on the intarweb, some people are saying this is Alaska, and Siberia is frozen tundra. Not really. The Chutotka region borders the Bering Strait, hence the similarity to the Alaskan landscape — this photo gallery shows the video’s location is most probably legit. I’m surprised Sarah Palin hasn’t seen woolly mammoths!

    2. Dwarf Mammoth
      Dwarf mammoths existed on a Siberian island until about 1700 BC. A real pachyderm would keep it’s trunk above the water to breath when crossing a river. There are no tusks or ears visible so I concur that is likely a bear with a fish.

        1. I concur
          Yep, still a bear with a fish.

          I stretched the colours to bring out the colour difference between the “trunk” and the body…the bear is brown and the fish is blue / silver.

          😀

  2. Bear with big fish. Print
    Bear with big fish. Print screen, then past and edit brightness and contrast. Play with levels and you’ll see clearly it’s a bear, can even make out its eye if levels are hit just right.

  4. Head seems kinda small for a
    Head seems kinda small for a mammoth, but also kinda big for a bear, in proportion to the rest of the body, but the “trunk” is clearly a fish. Really big fish, but a fish nevertheless. Don’t think even pygmy mammoths ever ate fish, just grasses for them, so no doubt it’s a big headed bear.

      1. Sarah Palin
        I am a Tea Party reject. This website should not become politicized. I can find humor in a Sarah Palin joke, but enough is too much.
        Rick MG, I challenge you to look at this painting and answer two questions correctly.
        1. What is wrong with this painting?
        2. What is the name of “The Forgotten Man”?

        http://principledthoughts.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/the_forgotten_man.jpg

        The answers are not obvious and not on Google or Bing.
        I ask Greg to make this site politically free and just concentrate on Myth, Magic, and Mystery. Or fringe science, whichever.
        Since we are being political I invite everyone to check out the Modern Whig Party at http://www.modernwhig.org
        If you like what you see, join, and say Rockingham sent you 😛

        1. Polidics
          [quote=SiberianSwordsman]I ask Greg to make this site politically free and just concentrate on Myth, Magic, and Mystery. Or fringe science, whichever. [/quote]

          I reserve the right for anyone to make any joke at any politician’s expense. I don’t like any of them, of any particular stripe, and they deserve everything they get. Modern politics is a joke, I’m certainly not going to deny commenters the right to treat it as such.

          1. Modern politics is a joke
            Humor is fun especially at a politician’s expense. The penny drops so to speak. I understand.

  7. politics, hidden history and mammoths
    Our Swordsman (ooh, err) wants Grail to avoid politics? So much of what TDG is all about is intertwined with politics, not least hidden histories.

    More importantly, there’s something about the ease and fluidity of movement of the (definitely not) mammoth that doesn’t seem right to me. It just doesn’t look like something moving through *that* water.

    Oh, and the lack of clean focus must be deliberate.

    Video technology is really not my forte, but could this have been faked?

      1. The trees look fake
        And the water is swirling anti-clockwise, which it doesn’t do in the northern hemisphere.

        Well, this beast is smarter than the average bear. “Hey Boo Boo! Watch me use this fish and fool that stupid human over there into thinking I’m a mammoth. Teeheehee!””

    2. maybe not a hoax but…
      …It may have been of a bear that was purposely lead out of focus to make people “think” it was a mammoth. Don’t get me wrong Russia is a big enough place to hide a new or even an old species. But the global temperatures are different now even in Siberia, I don’t think a mammoth could survive.

      That being said I still believe in Thylacines 😉

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