| Miocene Elephant | |
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| Latin name: | Stegotetrabelodon syrticus |
| Temperament: | Aggressive |
| Habitat(s): | Savanna region, near the Baobabs Oasis |
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The Miocene Elephant (Stegotetrabelodon syrticus) is a hostile animal.
Behaviour
The 
Miocene Elephant is found only in the 
Savanna region, near the Baobabs Oasis.
Combat
The Miocene Elephant is perhaps the most difficult animal to interact with in the game. They do not give much warning before attacking, unlike the other Irascible Threats who warn a Hominid thoroughly before charging. The only weapons that can counterattack an elephant successfully are 
Dead Branches, 
Sticks, and 
Sharpened Sticks. This adds to the difficulty of hunting them because the area they are found in is not rich with Dead Branches. They have a very large amount of health, taking anywhere from 2 to 7 Sharpened Sticks to kill. The elephant is the most confident animal in the game, so a Hominid needs an extremely high
intimidation score to scare it away. It can take an entire clan of 6 adults and 6 elders all carrying Dead Branches to successfully intimidate an elephant, but an entire clan without weapons is not successful.
Carcass
The 
Miocene Elephant Carcass provides 
Mammal Meat and 
Hard Bone when it is 
butchered. The carcass can be butchered three times. To butcher a carcass more than once, all the items dropped from the previous butchering must be picked up.
Interactions With Other Animals
The Miocene Elephant completely dominates every other animal it interacts with. Strangely enough, it is the only Irascible Threat to have interactions with other irascible animals such as the Miocene White Rhinoceros.
- The elephant can kill the
Machairodus. - The elephant can kill the African Rock Python.
- The elephant can kill the Miocene White Rhinoceros.
- The elephant can kill the African Buffalo.
- More will be listed upon discovery.
Trivia
- Ancestors marks just the second appearance of Stegotetrabelodon in popular culture, with the first being its appearance in the PBS documentary, When Whales Walked: Journeys in Deep Time, also released in 2019.
- Stegotetrabelodon is a genus of extinct gomphothere-like primitive elephant that lived in Africa during the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene epochs.
