Heartlands Direhorse

Fast-running herd animals that the Na'vi form temporary bonds with and ride.
Most commonly found in the Petrified Forest biome of the Heart of the Plains.
==Anatomy==
Horse-like creature with six legs, tough skin with no fur, long necks and small head, bold stripes, flexible carbon fiber armor over shoulders and along the back of the neck and head.
Animal has neutral interface that allow Na'vi and direhorse to move together with apparent effortlessness.
An highly intelligent, calm creatuer that, like the Na'vi, can turn fierce in the face of battle.
The direhorse has two long, thin antennae that emerge form their side of the top of the skull.
These appendages have feathery tips that move constantly, (almost like a kind of sea grass), and seek out the antennae of tother direhorses as they move near.
Xenobiologists believe that the touch of antennaes is for pleasure and affection, but also a means of transferring information about food sources and potential danger;
herds often move in unson shortly after touching antennae.
==Na'vi Culture==
The Na'vi are excellent riders and, with its six legs, the direhorse is a swift, nimble mount that is well-adapted to the rugged Pandoran terrain.
Many direhorses are tamed to aid their riders in the hunt and in battle.
To bon with (or, in humans terms, to "break") a direhorse, a Na'vi must mount the animal and connect their neural queue to the animal's antennae (or neural whip).
Once queue and antenna touch, the feathery tendrils automatically interwine, almost as if possessed of free will.
Although the exact motive force remains unknow, it is believed that the antennae may secrete a pheromone that exovkes the unique intertwining.
Once intertwined, the Na'vi rider can communicate motor commands instantly through the neural interface.
The apparent lack of effort makes it seem as if the direhorse is an extension of the rider's own body.
This frees up the Na'vi to use a bow and arrow during a hunt or battle.
Unlike the moutain ikran, however, the neural link made between rider and direhorse does not lead to a life-long, exclusive bond between Na'vi and animal;
although Na'vi have their favorite mounts, it is possible and permssible to ride another clan member's direhorse.
==Capabilities==
The direhorse is a perfect mount to ride in an obstacle-strawn close quarters of a Pandoran Forest;
Direhorse can turn on a dime, have excellent reactions times, and can leap large distances.
When wild, the animals move together in a loose herd through the forests, feeding on tree bark and shrubs.
Herds numbering in the doezns have been spotted from aircraft.
But evidence (including scatological and plant impact) suggests that hers of more than one hundred animals are not uncommon.
The animals are easily startled, and, when all siw legs are working in unison, can reach ninety-five kilometers per hour.
The direhorse is larger by a third than the largest Terran draft horses such as the Clydesdale or the Percheron, and substantially larger than the biggest horse ever recorded on Earth.
==See also==
*Direhorse 
==Sources==
*Hunter's Guide in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.
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