BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Saratoga Springs Public Library//NONSGML Saratoga READS!//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:https://saratogareads.org/events/extinction-a-question-of-adaptation-where-did-all-the-elephants-go/ URL:https://saratogareads.org/events/extinction-a-question-of-adaptation-where-did-all-the-elephants-go/ DTSTAMP:20171117T091901 CREATED:20171117T091901 DTSTART:20180111T120000 TITLE:Extinction: A Question of Adaptation (Where did all the Elephants Go?) SUMMARY:Extinction: A Question of Adaptation (Where did all the Elephants Go?) DESCRIPTION:Extinction: A Question of Adaptation (Where did all the Elephants Go?)\nTom Lake, NYS DEC Hudson River Estuary Program’s Consulting Naturalist, explains how past episodes of climate change led to the demise and extinction of large land mammals and other wildlife.\nThe most recent extinction event, the Laurentide Ice Sheet, covered Saratoga Springs with 10,000 feet of ice, the last of eight known Ice Ages. Lake will discuss how and why we lost Hudson Valley animals via extinction such as the stag-moose, mastodon, mammoth, giant beaver, ground sloth, and flat-headed peccary, and then others like woodland caribou and American elk via extirpation. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Extinction: A Question of Adaptation (Where did all the Elephants Go?)
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Tom Lake, NYS DEC Hudson River Estuary Program’s Consulting Naturalist, explains how past episodes of climate change led to the demise and extinction of large land mammals and other wildlife.

The most recent extinction event, the Laurentide Ice Sheet, covered Saratoga Springs with 10,000 feet of ice, the last of eight known Ice Ages. Lake will discuss how and why we lost Hudson Valley animals via extinction such as the stag-moose, mastodon, mammoth, giant beaver, ground sloth, and flat-headed peccary, and then others like woodland caribou and American elk via extirpation.

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