"The German/Russian paleontologist E. W. Pfizenmayer, then at the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, explains, what happened in the year 1901, when they came, to dig out this valuable find at the Berezovka River, an eastern tributary of the Kolyma River in northeastern Siberia:
"Already quite a while before the mammoth carcass came into sight, an odor, not lovely at all, hit my nose, similar to the fumes, coming from a poorly kept horse stable, strongly mixed with carrion smell. Then, after a turn of the path, the skull, rising up high, appeared. And now we were standing at the grave of this diluvial gigantic animal! Rump and limbs were still sticking partially in the earth masses, wherein the carcass had slid down from above out of one of the wide crevasses of the ice-bank. The walls of this ice-bank were rising up at several places nearly vertically above the area, (where the soil) had fallen down." (1926:126).
The Cossack Innokenti Jawlowski, a trader in Kolymsk, told Pfizenmayer: "During the middle of August 1900, several Lamuts (NE Siberian natives) had stayed here for a while, in order to hunt. One of them, Semen Tarabykin by name, told the Cossack later in Kolymsk the following: He had followed with his dog the track of a moose (Europ. elk). His dog then led him to the inviting food, to the mammoth carcass, sticking out partially from the earth-masses. The head, with its soft parts, was then still preserved. It also had a ‘nose’, as long as a one-year old reindeer calf and at the head a tusk could be seen...."
The most valuable piece of skin of the Berezovka mammoth (as Pfizenmayer put it), with its tail, erected penis and testicles.
If the erection occurred due to shortness of breath, this would prove then, that the animal has choked to death, paleontologist E. W. Pfizenmayer (1926) concludes.
At the base of the mammoth’s tail there is an anal-flap. Also the living elephant has such an anal flap.