Russians claim mammoth extinction due to mankind by Zivka Deleva

A miraculous and disappointing discovery came to the sight few days ago after two scientists claimed that some animals extinction in Siberia was not due to the cruel natural conditions, but because of the human killings. To be honest, I am not at all surprised by the thought at all, but still, I wish sometimes that mankind wasn't so annihilating to everything that's around it. A father and a son scientists from Siberia believe that people were the bigger infiltrators of the nature due to fulfill their need for food, fuel or maybe fun. We talk about the mammoths, rhinos and bison that all together belong to the grazers. The scientists that claim this are Sergey Zimov, who ! is director of the internationally funded Northeast Science Station and his son. They affirm that when humans came to these areas, they didn't kill animals only for food, but for its fat as well. Afterwards, they used it as a fuel. It is really very enigmatically how come these species have gone for such a short time. According to me, it is probably the mix of the both factors - the human and the nature, as well. It is an inevitable fact that the warming temperatures have induced a changed way of living. Northeastern Siberia is one of the coldest regions in the world. "We don't look at animals just as animals. We look at them as a system, with vegetation and the whole ecosystem. You don't need to kill all the animals to kill an ecosystem" - said the younger Zimov. A lot of people don't agree with this theory. For instance, the paleontology department of London's Natural History Museum representative Adrian Lister claims that the rapid global warming was still the pri! mary responsible.

by Zivka Deleva for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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