Mamontenok Ljuba has choked with a dirt

As scientists of Zoological institute have found out, мамонтенок Ljuba was lost having choked with a dirt.

At present мамонтенок is on preservation. «Mamontenok is impregnated by a special solution which protects a find from various external influences. Then мамонтенок it will be dried up. All internal is kept, we only small fragments took for studying», – has told A.Tihonov, the deputy director of Zoological institute.

Soon мамонтенок will take the place in district muzejno-expocentre of Shemanovsky.

In total preservation occupies 75-80 days though мамонтенок is in institute already more than 1 year. «All year scientists studied an internal structure мамонтенка, looked, how an internal that is in respiratory ways and a digestive path» are located, – the deputy director of Zoological institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences has explained.