Who is manny the mammoth

Instead of being bare-skinned, the wooly mammoth grew very thick fur all over its body that consisted of long guard hairs and a shorter, dense undercoat. Manny was a reddish-brown color, but mammoths ranged in color from black to blond and variations in between. The mammoth's ears were smaller than the African elephant's, helping it retain body heat and minimize the risk of frostbite.

Another difference between mammoths and elephants: a pair of exceedingly long tusks that curved in an exaggerated arc around its face. Like modern elephants, the mammoth's tusks were used in conjunction with its trunk to acquire food, fight with predators and other mammoths, and move things around when needed.

The wooly mammoth ate grass and sedges that grew low to the ground because there were few trees to be found in the grassy steppe landscape. Sid is a giant ground sloth Megatheriidae family , a group of species that were related to modern tree sloths, but they looked nothing like them--or any other animal, for that matter. Giant ground sloths lived on the ground instead of in trees and were enormous in size close to the size of mammoths.

They had huge claws up to about 25 inches in length , but they did not use them to catch other animals. Like the sloths that live today, giant sloths were not predators. Recent studies of fossilized sloth dung suggest that these giant creatures ate tree leaves, grasses, shrubs, and yucca plants.

These Ice Age sloths originated in South America as far south as Argentina, but they gradually moved north to southern regions of North America. Diego's long canine teeth give his identity away; he is a saber-toothed cat, more accurately known as a smilodon genus Machairodontinae.

Smilodons, which were the largest felines to have ever prowled the earth, lived in North and South America during the Pleistocene epoch. They were built more like bears than cats with heavy, stocky bodies built for powerful predation of bison, tapirs, deer, American camels, horses, and ground sloths like Sid.

Unlike Manny, Sid, and Diego, Scrat the "saber-toothed" squirrel who is always chasing an acorn was not based on an actual animal from the Pleistocene. He is a fun figment of the movie creators' imaginations. But, in , a strange mammalian fossil was found in South America that looked a lot like Scrat. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Crash and Eddie, also mad about it, said that they had to follow them during the night.

On Misty Chasm , Manny and Ellie had to lock trunks and forgive each other to save their friends. Later, Manny and Ellie disagreed on which way to go. Manny took the short-cut and Ellie took the longer, safer way. Manny, almost fainting, luckily got the animals again, but was then told by Crash and Eddie that Ellie was trapped. Manny quickly got to Ellie, and tried to open the blocked cave with a large log. Maelstrom and Cretaceous dragged him under the water. Manny made Cretaceous hit into the log, causing the rock to fall on them, and Ellie to be freed.

Crash, Eddie, Sid, and Diego waited for their friends. Finally, Ellie and Manny's trunks broke the surface of the water. A while after that, a large herd of mammoths stormed through, proving that they weren't the last mammoths. Ellie decided to go with the mammoth herd. Manny, still troubled about his past, let her go. Sid told Manny to let go of his past, so he can have a future. He hung upside down from a tree, telling Ellie that he loved her and wanted her to come with his herd.

She agreed. Each time they came, it would be a false alarm. Manny then brought Ellie to a playground he had made for their calf. Hanging from the tree was an Ice Mobile of Manny, Ellie, and their soon-to-be born calf. Ellie pointed out how he was trying to baby proof nature and Manny denied it. Diego, who had missed Manny's playground tour, said he come check it out later.

Ellie told Manny to go talk to him. Manny, trying to convince Ellie nothing was wrong with Diego, said that guys just punch each other on the shoulder. Ellie remarked that was stupid. Manny went to go talk to Diego, and punched him on the shoulder. Diego asked "Oww. What was that for? Manny, taking it the wrong way, thought Diego didn't want to be around his kid, and left.

Manny went back to Ellie to tell her Diego was leaving. Later, Ellie was able to catch one of the Sid's eggs and gave it back to him. Sid thanked her. Manny told him that he was not meant to be a parent and to take the eggs back. Manny said Sid would have a family too someday, but said his wife would have lower standards and no sense of smell. This offended Sid, and he went off with his eggs.

Later, Sid brought his than hatched eggs to Manny's playground. Other kids stormed in as well, and the playground was ruined. Manny then scolded Sid for not taking them back. Sid was then taken by Momma , a Tyrannosaurus , who wanted her babies back. They decided on peaches as the code. They went into a cavern and onto a Skeleton Bridge. This made Manny nervous, and repeat "Not good. But then an Ankylosaurus swung it's tail at them.

It almost smashed Crash and Eddie, but Diego quickly grabbed them. He told Manny that he was down here for the same reason they were, to find Sid.

Ellie picked a plant and showed it to Brachiosaurus. Manny told her it was too dangerous, but she told her it was either this dinosaur or that one. She slid down the neck of the Brachiosaurus and landed safely on the ground. Manny and Diego landed rather odd. They looked around, only to realize they were surrounded by dinosaurs. They heard a strange noise and saw a weasel swing on a vine, only for the vine to snap.

The dinosaurs, who had turned toward the noise, looked back at the herd. The weasel than popped in. The weasel then introduced himself as Buck. He than told them to go home. The herd told Buck that they were looking for a sloth. Buck that licked the dirt of a dinosaur footprint and spit it aside. He then told them where they were headed and took off. Buck ended up saving them, by cutting the plant's wire. Buck told them about his pineapple wife. They went to the Chasm of Death , were they had to get on the ribs of a dinosaur and be glided through it with a vine.

The chasm of death was full of smoke that made anyone who breathes it will laugh to death. Manny, Crash, Eddie, and Diego were on the ribs of the dinosaur. Buck was having trouble with the vines, and ended up going by them, and started laughing with them all. Ellie had to pull the stick holding the vines back to guide them down again.

They went on to the Plates of Woe. Guanlong began to knock the plates into each other, separating the herd. Ellie who started screaming various fruits, trying to remember the code. Manny and Diego were confused. Ellie finally remembered the code, and shouted Peaches. Buck, Crash, and Eddie decided to go save Sid. Diego ran up to Ellie as Manny tried to stop the guanlong from getting to Ellie. Manny, finally getting up to his wife, saw her cradling a female calf in her trunk.

Manny wrapped his trunk around the calf. He said she was perfect and should name her Little Ellie. Ellie said that they should name her Peaches and Manny agreed. Sid, Crash, Eddie, and Buck had come back. But before they could leave, Rudy , a Baryonyx , a dinosaur Buck had told them a story about. Buck had almost been swallowed by. Rudy, but swung out of his jaws, knocking out a tooth , which he uses as a dagger. Instead, Momma, rushed into Rudy knocking him off a cliff.

Buck decided to be apart of the heard and followed them home. When Buck heard Rudy, he was surprised he was alive and went back for Rudy. Crash and Eddie said they say her go to the falls with Louis. He ended up finding Peaches with her molehog friend, Louis. Peaches asked Manny when she'd be able to hangout with boys. Manny told when he was dead, plus three days. All of the sudden Sid's family , riding in a log car, barely hit Peaches.

Diego grabbed on a tree to pull the car back, as he was tied to it, to make sure it didn't hit Peaches. Sid came running to his family and hugged them. Manny told Peaches that he still hugs his parents. As Manny watched, he was unaware that his daughter went away with Louis again to the falls.

When Manny realized, he followed her. She fell down the icey falls, and hit into Ethan , the mammoth. Manny, beside Peaches, heard Ethan ask "You have a twin sister? Peaches told Manny that she wished he wasn't her father. A shake then made a crack in the ice. Manny moved slowly to Ellie, and they locked trunks. They were pulled away from each other from the crack. Manny yelled to them to go to the Land Bridge and that he'd find them there. Manny was with Diego and Sid, stuck at sea on a chunk of ice.

They survived storms together and harsh waves. Soon hearing a strange noise in a tree, Diego looked in only to see Sid's Granny , which his family left, was alive and well sleeping through the storms.

She then went in the water and took her first bath in decades, killing fish and even a shark under the water. Manny threw Sid in the water to get her, and Sid put her up on the ice. They saw a bird fly by, and assumed land was near. They heard laughter from the distant and Sid thought it was just a party crew. The skulls of saber-tooth tigers hit the iceberg they were on and they were dragged in by pirates. Gutt , a Gigantopithecus , greeted them as each crew member stepped up.

Later, Manny was hit in the head with an ice block, and passed out. They were tied up, and Gutt and his crew sang Master of the Seas. Diego and Manny, thought of a way out, and decided to risk it. They were able to destroy the ship and get to safety on a piece of ice. Shira , a saber-tooth tiger was calling for help. She was rescued by Manny but didn't really want to be with them. He got her and put her in a tree prison. They went to a jungle and noticed little small creatures called hyraxes.

They also saw that the pirates were forcing the captured hyraxes to build them a new ship. Manny decided to team up with the free hyraxes and thier leader, Fuzzy , with Sid as their translater. Everyone had a job. Sid and Granny would unwind the vines and keep hold of them, Diego would free the captured hyraxes, and the free hyraxes would make the pirates come toward them.

Once it was time, they all did their jobs, Sid ended up eating a lotus berry and that would paralysis anything that ate it. They still got the ship. Diego was pinned down by Shira, but tried to convince her to come. She agreed, but had to trip Gutt instead. During the night, Diego was teased by Sid and Manny about being in love with Shira. Manny and his friends were almost eaten by sirens , but luckily Manny snapped out of it. He had tied up Manny's loving wife, Ellie. Louis was able to save Peaches and Peaches was able to save her mom.

A little later, Manny was fighting Gutt on an iceberg. Manny won the fight and was able to return to his family in peace, and found a new home. Setting aside first impressions, based soley off of appearnce, Manny is far from menacing, which is how I initially saw him.

He is actually one of the most caring characters in any animated film. But interestingly enough, he has a hard exterior that matches many first impressions of a mammoth being the main protagonist and hero of a story.

Other visual characteristics that do not match those of the typical fairytale hero are that he is quite clumsy and awkward. His bulky stature and elephant-like movements seem cumbersome and too slow to be associated with someone who can swoop in and save the day.