Show hairy elephants historians tell us that in prehistoric times mighty mastodons and mammoths mam moths were covered from head to tall with a very coarse hair bair which in many casts cases grew long so the elephants forefathers had long hair but as the world changed with regard to weather conditions from the bitter bitte r frosty glaciers that were encountered to the modern climate of extreme heat beat and cold the elephant gradually hoffed doffed 1 his overcoat the hair sometimes t mes seen keen on the top of his head bead alone remains as a reminder |