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Phodahphant

Diet: Herbivore
Danger Level: 8
Social Ability: 11

Information: An alien version of our planet’s elephant. Instead of a large, thick-bodied creature, it is small, long, and very thin in some areas. It also has a pair of primitive graspers growing out of the front just below the head that it uses to feed itself branches and twigs from bushes and trees.

The large bulb on its head emits a low frequency sonar that it uses to locate its kind as well as any other creature that it cannot see with its own eyes. It is also used to identify family groups based on the harmonic resonation of the sonar when it bounces off this creature’s tusks.

Each pair of tusks have microscopic grooves covering the surface that changes the pitch of the sonar’s ping when it bounces back to this creature. Each family has its own unique sonar ping similar to a call sign on a submarine.

~Zeek Slider