What kind of animal is Manny in "Ice Age: The Meltdown"?

Manny in Ice Age: The Meltdown is a mammoth, specifically a woolly mammoth. His full name is Manfred, and he is voiced by Ray Romano in the Ice Age film series.

In the 2006 sequel, Manny travels with Sid the sloth and Diego, a saber-toothed cat, as their prehistoric valley faces catastrophic flooding caused by a warming environment. Manny initially believes he may be the last mammoth alive, which gives his otherwise comic character a more serious emotional storyline.

During the journey, the group meets Ellie, a female mammoth who was raised believing she was a possum. Her arrival challenges Manny’s fear that his species is disappearing and eventually becomes central to the film’s story. Crash and Eddie, Ellie’s possum brothers, join the group as well.

A common mix-up is calling Manny an elephant. Mammoths and modern elephants are close relatives, but Manny is depicted as a woolly mammoth, an extinct Ice Age animal adapted to cold conditions with dense hair, a fat layer, and curved tusks.