The Mammoth - Titan of the Ice Age - Part 1 | Ice Age Stories | Free Documentary | History HD

[Music] [Music] it is winter on the edge of east asia tens of thousands of years ago in the depths of the ice age [Music] a band of mammoths is heading southwards [Music] that eater is the oldest female in the [Music] [Applause] [Music] group [Music] the band arrives at the edge of a frozen river crossing its icy surface is fraught with danger for these giant mammoths who weigh more than six tons [Music] if the frozen crust were to crack the deep river would instantly become a watery tomb [Music] from the forest comes a pack of saber-toothed tigers the fiercest creatures found in the ice age but the largest mammoths are not the reward they seek today instead they set their sights on the youngster the end of the group [Music] [Applause] [Music] the mother is worried about a child who keeps lagging behind the sabretooth cats are waiting for just the right moment when the young mammoth will be out of reach of her mother as long as she's near her mother the youngster is safe but then tragedy erupts from an unexpected source [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] stuck helplessly in the ice she is forced to see her beloved offspring killed right in front of her eye this is a story from the ice age long ago on a frozen river at the edge of east [Music] asia [Music] from a period from about 2 million years in the past to just 10 millennia ago the earth's temperature was lower than at any other period it was the mother of all ice ages and this film was about the giant mammoths which became extinct when it ended [Music] this is the eastern edge of what today we call asia during the ice age among the many creatures of that epoch some have survived but most have disappeared this is the family of mammoths that lost a mother and her daughter in that frozen river last winter [Music] a young mammoth playfully chases after a young giant deer munchie is the young male who is chasing the young deer under the watchful eye of its mother moon she is three years and has become quite a troublemaker the disappointed mung chi returns to his family mammoths maintain a matriarchal social [Music] group the head of this mammoth family is a 40-year-old female [Music] [Applause] [Music] the rest of the members are all her descendants the female mammoth welcoming munchie is his mother she is the oldest daughter of the matriarch and she is second in command the ready-colored young mammoth over there next to moonchi's mother is called gonem [Music] gonam who munchie seems to like more than his mother is the daughter of the female who drowned in the river last winter in the wild it's extremely difficult for a youngster to survive after losing its mother among mammoths who share a strong family bond such a thing is possible right now this band is composed of five members but they are waiting for a sixth [Music] hey it is a spring day during the ice age but night eventually returns to the plane from deep in the forest where not even the moonlight can penetrate a painful roar spreads across the land [Applause] the matriarch's youngest daughter is in labor she exhales with difficulty [Music] the night is growing darker while the pain of labor grows stronger [Applause] childbirth is the single most dangerous moment in the wild it provides a golden opportunity for would-be predators in fact this pack of saber-toothed tigers the fiercest animals in the ice age is causing more distress to the new mother than her intense labor pangs saber-toothed tigers have waited some time for this precise moment when the mother mammoth is most [Music] vulnerable [Music] as soon as this new life arrives in this world this pack of vicious felines approaches ready to pounce on the helpless prey the saber-tooth tigers try to distract the mother from her newborn [Music] taken aback by the mother's formidable defense the saber-tooths begin to retreat in the end their attack was all for naught at that moment the new mother approaches her young to check on her but her newborn covered in blood doesn't budge at all it is the next morning in the forest [Music] [Applause] somehow the newborn managed to survive the night he is able to stand in nurse just 12 hours after her birth she is drinking her mother's milk on this spring day in the latter years of the great ice age a female mammoth of the species humans would later call mammoth primogenias entered this world her name is mamu and what follows is her story it is early summer the ice age still rains but the sunlight is warm mamu now three years old is still struggling when she nurses from her mother her center of gravity moves backwards with her hind legs injured from bites by the saber-tooths she has difficulty supporting her own weight and she easily falls down the scars on her left ear have healed but the development of her hind legs is stunted critical nerves and muscles were damaged mamu's mother constantly moves around ignoring her daughter's search for milk knowing mamu hates to walk due to the wounds on her hind leg her mother forces her to practice walking every young creature in the wild is an easy target for predators for those youngsters with limbs that are slow or injured the chances of becoming prey are quite high the mother is well aware of such cruel laws of nature until mammoo reaches adulthood and can better defend herself from attacks many obstacles lie ahead on the road to maturity [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] even the ice age has four distinct seasons the summer heat is particularly perplexing for these creatures evolved to endure the cold what bothers them the most is the small flying insects the best solution is to take a mug bath a bulky six-ton mammoth can do little against these tiny insects that are smaller than the tip of one's little toe using their trunk to cover their bodies with mud is all these giant creatures can do [Music] despite the sizzling heat and the persistent bugs this mammoth trio seems to lose track of time as they relish their mud bath the forest-dwelling saber-toothed tigers also gave birth this spring in order to feed her the sabretooth mother must go hunting every day after she heads out in search of prey this trio of mammoths enters the forest [Music] many herbivorous creatures make their home in the vast plain carnivores who eye these gentle plant eaters keep themselves out of sight at the edge of the forest unwittingly the young mammoths approached the sabertooth tiger's hidden lair [Music] [Music] as game approaches the sabretooth mother is on heightened alert foreign [Applause] meanwhile back in the forest mammal has her first encounter with the saber-tooth youngsters [Music] [Applause] [Music] the appearance of their mother ensures that the meeting does not last long [Music] as long as they share this same forested plane it is an encounter that will be [Music] repeated the band of mammoths is always on the move searching for food at three to four meters tall these animals weigh from four to six tons fossil evidence indicates that one tusk alone may have weighed more than a hundred kilograms in order to sustain their massive bodies mammoths must eat two to three hundred kilograms of plants tree fruit and tree roots each day this forces the mammoths to migrate constantly in search of new sources of food mammoths originated in africa about 2 million years ago and then spread to the rest of the world some in siberia eventually came down to what is korea today young mammoths learn many things from their parents mamu follows her mother and notes her every action her mother is trying to teach mamu how to break tree branches but snapping branches is a task that's too challenging for ammo mong chi's mother looks upset this is because mung chi doesn't stay near her not even for a minute in a band composed mostly of females the behavior of a young and mischievous male stands out monchi is still young but wanders around that by his curious male instinct as usual his sense of mischief causes problems [Music] this brings on another incident a branch he carelessly tossed aside has landed in the territory of a fierce woolly rhinoceros [Applause] [Music] [Music] fortunately mung chi was not the target of the wooly rhinoceros other animals also learn survival techniques from their parents sabretooth cubs learn from their mother how to hunt for these meat-eating predators this struggling young beer is like a living textbook they're still young but they are already controlled by fierce animal instinct the long winter of the late ice age has begun [Music] the great animal migrations have also started plant-eating animals have already set off on their long journeys animals that eat the leaves and the tree roots linger a little longer and leave later mammoths are able to withstand the siberian cold but they can't endure hunger [Music] the temperature keeps dropping the mammoths prepare themselves for a long trek the time of their departure approaches the mother worries about mamu and her continued limp her band lost some of its own while crossing this frozen river last winter [Music] this year they plan to cross the river before it freezes they all worry about nine-month-old mamu they wonder if she can endure this long harsh journey according to meteorological research from the mid-20th century the average january temperature in the plateau region of this part of east asia was minus 18 degrees celsius temperatures on the mountain tops dropped to minus 25 degrees celsius one can only imagine how much colder it was during the ice age [Music] [Applause] the band's matriarch has made some tough choices he hopes to finish this journey without any major obstacles finally the mammoths depart on their odyssey young mamu must have made a long journey between northern and southern asia particularly for a crippled young mammoth this migration was no easy task their path includes no road signs they are guided only by the memories of those who have made this journey before [Music] on their way south there's a wide river they have to cross the matriarch urges her family to cross the river before it freezes [Music] [Music] they don't know when this journey will end but in order to survive they must take their young on this grueling track [Music] oh the matriarch regulates their pace but because of mamu's limp the band inevitably must slow down [Music] ah [Music] four days after their departure they arrive here at the river where they lost two beloved family members last winter [Music] they pause but they know it's the only way south the band stops at the river [Applause] the river is extremely cold but there's no time to waste crossing a river frozen requires ice strong enough to support a six-ton mammoth but the entire band could die of starvation waiting for such a time the family matriarch is the first to step into the water munchie is always full of courage beyond what is necessary fearlessly goes in right after her [Applause] following the matriarch whose concern is always for the safety of her band moongji's mother and gonam enter the river now it's mamu and her mother's turn to enter the icy water [Music] [Applause] her mother shows her how to traverse these swift waters but mamu hesitates when she sets foot in the cold river she tries to muster the courage to follow her mother into the water but she shrinks back in fear [Music] [Applause] mamu's mother has been ignoring her on purpose but she knows she has no choice but to go back for her daughter [Music] [Applause] [Music] reluctantly mamu's mother must give up her quest to cross the river it's too tough a task for mamo to swim to the opposite bank with her injured leg [Music] ultimately the band becomes separated by the river the mother decides to wait until the river freezes over completely then she and her daughter will make their way across it has snowed a great deal over the past several days one week has passed since they made the decision to wait for the river to freeze a hungry mamu is asking for milk but her mother too has been starving for several days there's simply no milk to offer her daughter mamu and her mother has spent the week standing at the river's edge they have drawn the attention of the saber-tooths and the area for several days mamu's mother has searched the river for places where the ice is thick the ice appears to be thicker but mamu's mother is cautious if she were to fall through the ice and into the water her daughter would almost certainly be devoured by the starving sabretooths this is exactly what she witnessed last wednesday meanwhile the band's matriarch has been leading the rest of the family south [Music] down in this valley they find another group of mammoths [Music] no other creatures have as strong a family bond as the mammoths they are distraught over the death of one of their own if the matriarch herself lives a full life her last moments will be shared with her family just like this allowing her to say goodbye [Music] two weeks have passed since memo and her mother became stranded here the situation is growing intense saber-through tigers begin to plot their attack they too have hungry youngsters to feed it's time to make a difficult choice get caught by those vicious felines or risk death in the icy river the mother takes a tentative first step into the frozen river hoping her daughter will have the courage to follow the sabertooths have been waiting for just such an opportunity mamu's mother notices the danger and rushes back to save mammal the saber tooth have been starving for days they're in no mood to back off this time such a confrontation was inevitable at just that moment the last herd of giant deer from the north arrives at the river looking to the deer is a new opportunity the zebra tooth decide to forgo what would have been a dangerous battle with the mammoth mother they're well aware that the giant deer are far easier prey to catch uh the giant deer's loss is unexpected fortune for mamu and her mother they are grateful [Music] while mammoths have evolved bigger and heavier bodies for protection giant deer have evolved to preserve their species through sheer numbers in this way their genes will be passed on to future generations even if some are caught by predators for now the rest of the deer are safe and mamu is safe too while the sabretooth tigers devour their meal mama and her mother quickly make their way across the frozen river [Music] after this near-death experience mamu doesn't hesitate to follow her mother's steps [Music] after they cross this river they'll be able to catch up with the rest of their [Music] band the first step is the toughest once mammoo tries she finds walking on the ice isn't as difficult as she imagined mamu actually comes to enjoy walking in the ice her pace picks up as she proceeds to the deep center of the river [Music] [Applause] [Music] one winter's day in the last ice age a young mammoth crosses a river that was to be one of the obstacles in her long life [Music] a month has passed since the rest of the family arrived here [Music] but mamu and her mother haven't been seen not since they got separated from the others at the riverbank [Music] the rest of the family is worried about them they may have been attacked by saber-tooths or they might have drowned while crossing the river everything up north must have frozen over by now as the green fields with lush pratt life have shrunk the mammoths have found themselves traveling farther and farther each year in search of food [Music] [Applause] one by one the animals that are unable to endure this long trek disappear [Music] finally my moon her mother is spotted up on top of the hill two weeks after they crossed the river the mother's hazy memory finally brought them to this place finally reunited with their beloved family mamo and her mother rushed to be with [Music] them the matriarch's wait for these two is now over the young mammoth called mamu has spent the first year of her life very close to death [Music] and after a perilous month long journey mamu has finally returned to the warm embrace of her family [Music] despite physical difficulties mamu reaches the age of 13 under the watchful eye of her mother vicious battle erupts among males vying for female attention the mammoth family struggles to endure unusual new weather patterns the cave lion a fierce creature of the ice age goes through a period of extreme [Music] there are endless hardships from amu and her family [Music] the giant mammoths among the largest of the earth's mammals disappeared from the planet leaving a message for the humans the next of the earth [Music] bye [Music] [Applause] [Music] god [Music] you

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Length: 44min 43sec (2683 seconds)

Published: Sat May 15 2021