 I worked north of the Arctic Circle in the Brooks Range, and there were poppies and buttercups and everything growing in the hills. And right next to the glaciers and the frozen ground, permafrost is right there about two feet down. So you can just picture an elephant wandering around and flipping into some sludge and getting frozen rather quickly, even with the buttercups in his stomach. It doesn't mean he lived in a temperate climate.