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Re:Grisly find suggests humans inhabited Arctic 45,000 years... by litzer on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @04:54PM (#10941670)
"Elephant hunters in Africa, for example, often target the base of the trunk to cut arteries, causing the animal to bleed to death. The mammoth also had injuries to its jaw that suggest the tongue was cut out."

As a way to bleed it out.

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Re:Grisly find suggests humans inhabited Arctic 45,000 years... by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @06:06PM (#10942115)
I think that's the wrong interpretation by quite a ways. No hunter cut a tongue out to injure an animal so it would die (the purpose of the trunk thrusts). Nobody gets close enough to cut a tongue out without the animal being dead already.
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Re:Grisly find suggests humans inhabited Arctic 45,000 years... by litzer on Saturday January 23, 2016 @12:51PM (#10959179)
An animal can fall and not die for many hours; the elephant might be incapacitated but not be dead.
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