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I love the Science Channel. I'm watching a reconstructed mammoth hunt. They brought in some scientistits who knew a lot about biomechanics and some special effects people to recreate a pneumatic mammoth and then they threw two Hollywood stuntmen and a stunt woman on the tusks of the mammoth to see how far a tusk swipe could throw a prehistoric Clovis mammoth.
If you grab onto the tusk before the swing starts, you get thrown about 30 feet into the air and will probably land wrong and break some bones. Which will slow you down enough so that the mammoth can then step on you - and your skull can be crushed spraying goo for 20 ft (they simulated this) all over your friends.
Even if you don't break any bones though....your wind is getting knocked out of you and so it's still happy stomping times for the mammoth.
If you are near the mammoth tusk but not holding onto the mammoth tusk when it slams into you - your chest cavity gets crushed. They tried this with a side of beef. It made a neat splintering sound =)
Lots of slow motion zoom shots of the stunt actors getting thrown 20-30 feet by the tusks onto a mat. Something I think they missed in editing though is that the stunt actors seem to have really got into their roles and are wearing animal skins and nothing underneath. Everytime they get thrown they flash their bum when they hit the mat.
And the only sure way to take down a wooly mammoth is to swarm it with your spears and thrust them in. They tried throwing them from a distance...but the spears were too light to go through even elephant hide consistently. I think at a distance they would have just pissed off the mammoth.
This is a Teratorn. Flocks of teratorns probably swarmed over dead mammoths and took out clovis people that weren't killed during the hunt.
If you grab onto the tusk before the swing starts, you get thrown about 30 feet into the air and will probably land wrong and break some bones. Which will slow you down enough so that the mammoth can then step on you - and your skull can be crushed spraying goo for 20 ft (they simulated this) all over your friends.
Even if you don't break any bones though....your wind is getting knocked out of you and so it's still happy stomping times for the mammoth.
If you are near the mammoth tusk but not holding onto the mammoth tusk when it slams into you - your chest cavity gets crushed. They tried this with a side of beef. It made a neat splintering sound =)
Lots of slow motion zoom shots of the stunt actors getting thrown 20-30 feet by the tusks onto a mat. Something I think they missed in editing though is that the stunt actors seem to have really got into their roles and are wearing animal skins and nothing underneath. Everytime they get thrown they flash their bum when they hit the mat.
And the only sure way to take down a wooly mammoth is to swarm it with your spears and thrust them in. They tried throwing them from a distance...but the spears were too light to go through even elephant hide consistently. I think at a distance they would have just pissed off the mammoth.
This is a Teratorn. Flocks of teratorns probably swarmed over dead mammoths and took out clovis people that weren't killed during the hunt.
