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By F.N. D'ALESSIO

Associated Press Writer

 

A few months after the last of the elephants left Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo in May, amid complaints from activists that Illinois doesn't have a climate fit for such animals, remains of their ancient relatives were showing up around the state.

 

"It almost seemed that mastodons and mammoths were falling out of the trees for a few weeks," said paleontologist Jeffrey Saunders, the curator of geology at the Illinois State Museum in Springfield. He's frequently the expert called in to verify and identify the teeth, bones and tusks of the giant Ice Age mammals when they are found in the state.

 

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A few months after the last of the elephants left Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo in May, amid complaints from activists that Illinois doesn't have a climate fit for such animals, remains of their ancient relatives were showing up around the state.

Yes, because the fact that a few thousand years ago Illinois's climate was suitable for mastadons and mammoths has even a smidgen of relevance to whether or not a completely different species can exist in a completely different climate an eon or two later.

 

Here's an idea...let's take those elephants and move them to Antarctica! Then, we can see if they'd survive, and then we could tell whether or not those elephants could have survived in Illinois 20,000 years ago! Considering that most of the state was under ice then...

are they still in the brookfield zoo?