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Description

Name of Creature: Ibea Mammoth (named for their size)
Location: Tundra, Tatra, Kumba, and sometimes Mayurs see them
Diet: Grass, roots, leaves, fruit, and pond weeds
Extra Information: Large and intimidating, loud and stubborn. Ibea Mammoths are part of the proboscidea family, somewhere between a cross of a woolly mammoth and a modern day elephant, and possibly a camel. Found in almost every environment. A migratory species. Males are nomadic.
Breeding:
Bull Ibea Mammoths are very large and very mean. They're loners in the off season, but seek out herds of females during breeding season. Cow Ibea Mammoths are very social and live in large family groups all year round. During breeding season they accept two to three bulls into their herd for around one month. And then the bulls get the boot and resume their lonely lives. A cow will be pregnant around two years before giving birth to a calf that will stay with her for about five years. There have been rare occurances of twins, but usually both calves are tiny and one is taken in by a calf-less cow.
Behavior:
Typically, Ibea Mammoths are docile and non-aggressive towards other animals as they are monstrous in size and have no natural predators in their adulthood. As said before, females and young males travel in family herds while full grown males stay alone. These big mammals migrate from area to area, traveling across the tundra down into forests and mountains to the shrublands in the deserts and sometimes even the outer fringes of lush jungles. They have the intelligence of an earth elephant, and have been known to mourn when finding bones of their own kind.
Salikos should only be wary of these beasts if they come upon a bull, a herd during breeding season, or if there are cows with calves. Brave or stupid Salikos could hunt a young one in a pack but would have to do so in the dark due to the mammoths having weak night vision. Backing them up against a cliff and scaring one off could feed a pack of Salikos for weeks.
Appearance:
Shrubland and forest Ibea Mammoths are usually smaller than tundra mammoths. They have huge ears in order to circulate heat in the deserts and summer months. Usually these kinds of mammoths are sandy browns, tans, whites, grays, and occasionally red roans. Their shoulder hump is used as a water reserve, much like a camel's hump. Their large feet also help them not sink in the soft sand. Their hair is very thin and sleek, like a horse. Just enough to protect them from sun burn.
Tundra and high mountain mammoths are even larger than their warm climate cousins. These have smaller ears to preserve heat and their hairy crest is typically long and tangled during the winter months. Their hair is also much longer and thicker to keep their body heat in. Their large feet help them walk on the snow.
Both types of mammoths have a typical set of tusks that are formed out of ivory. The secondary tusks are actually horns that sprout from behind their ears and are full of vessels, meaning they can flush these horns in warning or greeting. Both genders have huge tusks, but bull mammoths have larger horns. Cows come to stand around 13-14 feet tall at the shoulders while bulls come anywhere between 14-17 feet tall at the shoulders. The mammoths pictured above are both cows.
Their trunks are very dexterous and are used for plucking leaves, grass, and touching each other in different expressions of emotion. While their colors vary from region to region, their patterns come in basic forms. There is dark back (shrubland mammoth pictured), freckled (tundra mammoth pictured), solid colors, and occasionally a piebald shows up every once in a while.

And this is my last entry for the contest.

I really wanted to enter some kind of elephant-ish creature. I promise, this is it. I'm done. Unless inspiration strikes me before the deadline.

Ibea Mammoth (c)
Salikos (c) and

Description

Name of Creature: Ibea Mammoth (named for their size)
Location: Tundra, Tatra, Kumba, and sometimes Mayurs see them
Diet: Grass, roots, leaves, fruit, and pond weeds
Extra Information: Large and intimidating, loud and stubborn. Ibea Mammoths are part of the proboscidea family, somewhere between a cross of a woolly mammoth and a modern day elephant, and possibly a camel. Found in almost every environment. A migratory species. Males are nomadic.
Breeding:
Bull Ibea Mammoths are very large and very mean. They're loners in the off season, but seek out herds of females during breeding season. Cow Ibea Mammoths are very social and live in large family groups all year round. During breeding season they accept two to three bulls into their herd for around one month. And then the bulls get the boot and resume their lonely lives. A cow will be pregnant around two years before giving birth to a calf that will stay with her for about five years. There have been rare occurances of twins, but usually both calves are tiny and one is taken in by a calf-less cow.
Behavior:
Typically, Ibea Mammoths are docile and non-aggressive towards other animals as they are monstrous in size and have no natural predators in their adulthood. As said before, females and young males travel in family herds while full grown males stay alone. These big mammals migrate from area to area, traveling across the tundra down into forests and mountains to the shrublands in the deserts and sometimes even the outer fringes of lush jungles. They have the intelligence of an earth elephant, and have been known to mourn when finding bones of their own kind.
Salikos should only be wary of these beasts if they come upon a bull, a herd during breeding season, or if there are cows with calves. Brave or stupid Salikos could hunt a young one in a pack but would have to do so in the dark due to the mammoths having weak night vision. Backing them up against a cliff and scaring one off could feed a pack of Salikos for weeks.
Appearance:
Shrubland and forest Ibea Mammoths are usually smaller than tundra mammoths. They have huge ears in order to circulate heat in the deserts and summer months. Usually these kinds of mammoths are sandy browns, tans, whites, grays, and occasionally red roans. Their shoulder hump is used as a water reserve, much like a camel's hump. Their large feet also help them not sink in the soft sand. Their hair is very thin and sleek, like a horse. Just enough to protect them from sun burn.
Tundra and high mountain mammoths are even larger than their warm climate cousins. These have smaller ears to preserve heat and their hairy crest is typically long and tangled during the winter months. Their hair is also much longer and thicker to keep their body heat in. Their large feet help them walk on the snow.
Both types of mammoths have a typical set of tusks that are formed out of ivory. The secondary tusks are actually horns that sprout from behind their ears and are full of vessels, meaning they can flush these horns in warning or greeting. Both genders have huge tusks, but bull mammoths have larger horns. Cows come to stand around 13-14 feet tall at the shoulders while bulls come anywhere between 14-17 feet tall at the shoulders. The mammoths pictured above are both cows.
Their trunks are very dexterous and are used for plucking leaves, grass, and touching each other in different expressions of emotion. While their colors vary from region to region, their patterns come in basic forms. There is dark back (shrubland mammoth pictured), freckled (tundra mammoth pictured), solid colors, and occasionally a piebald shows up every once in a while.

And this is my last entry for the contest.

I really wanted to enter some kind of elephant-ish creature. I promise, this is it. I'm done. Unless inspiration strikes me before the deadline.

Ibea Mammoth (c)
Salikos (c) and