Wool-Hide Elephant
Basic Information
Anatomy
The Wool-Hide Elephant is a descendant of the African Elephant, thought to have evolved from escaped zoo specimens in the human era. Unlike their African ancestors, the Wool-Hide has become adapted for cold environments, growing thick black and brown fur over most of their bodies and adapted to eat a much wider variety of plant material. Generally, the wool-hide is smaller than Asian elephants, but still too large for most land predators to attack readily.
Ecology and Habitats
The Wool-Hide Elephant spends the majority of its time in woodlands, forests, and taigas feasting on upper vegetation, bark, seeds, and cones.
Dietary Needs and Habits
Wool-Hides feast on a wide array of plant material, primarily the leaves, needles, and bark of trees with a small portion of their diet being made up of seeds, fruit, grasses, and aquatic plant life.
Behaviour
The Wool-hide often lives in family groups led by a single elderly female, often the mother of other members of the herd. These groups are often between 5 and 10 members, most generally made up entirely of females and their offspring. Males generally are solitary, following groups of females but rarely interacting outside of breeding.
Wool-hides are shy by nature, preferring to avoid highly populated areas, loud roads, and generally do not stay in exposed open areas for very long. Due to that most land predators avoid them, they often do not react to threats from bears, wolves, or cougars unless accompanying offspring. Most often when in the open, they keep their focus on the air on the look out for dragons, griffons, and airplanes and are known to spook and flee at anything large flying overhead.
Additional Information
Symbiotic and Parasitic organisms
Unicorns are known to occasionally follow Wool-Hides where their territories overlap, often using the elephants as guardians for their herds, as most predators are reluctant to approach them. Wool-hides in turn often use unicorns as a form of early warning system for their herds of when predators are nearby.
Genetic Ancestor(s)
Origin/Ancestry
Natural
Conservation Status
Endangered
Body Tint, Colouring and Marking
Black, brown, and dark grey
Geographic Distribution
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