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>>119093 1. I'm not sure if you've noticed, but there are still cold areas on this planet. Also animals with a comparable fur that lived in the exact same environment, such as musk oxen. No problem here.
2. They would eat the same plants as they did before. Their stomach contents have often frozen with them, and in some cases there's even stuff left in the mouth. There has not been a mass extinction of cool steppe flora (even though those steppes have become a lot more scarce with no mammoths to maintain them). Some people maintain that a relict population of mammoths might still persist somewhere deep in the Siberian wilderness (not likely, though).
3. The problem with pandas was that people were trying to second-guess panda mating and got it all wrong. There's no problem anymore. What troubles me is that mammoths were intelligent animals that learned most of the things about their environment from adults, and there's no grown up mammoths to raise them anymore (or at least, as far as we know).
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