Elephant

Elephants, called elephant calves as babies, are large land animals often found in . They have elephant tusks, which they use to fight in melee.
== Summary ==
When an adult male elephant is butchered, it yields 2 elephant tusks, unless the tusk body part is damaged.
Despite the texture of female elephants showing tusks, and female elephants' ability to attack with tusks, they do not yield them when butchered. It is currently unclear whether the ability for female elephants to attack with tusks, but not yield them on butchering is intentional or a bug.
Elephants can be brought on caravans as pack animals, they can carry kg of weight, almost double that of the muffalo. They can additionally be ridden for up to 130% caravan speed, reached if there is at least 1 elephant per rider.
== Analysis ==
Elephants are difficult to tame and eat a high amount of food, but are very powerful animals. They are in the unique position as the only pack animal that can be trained to haul. They can also be ridden in a caravan for extra speed. As a bonus, elephants are great at combat.
Elephants come in herds; hunting 1 elephant may anger the entire herd. In addition, elephants have 50% manhunter on hunt but 0% manhunter on a failed tame. Even if you want to slaughter elephants, consider taming them first. As a plus side, elephant herds are great to use with a psychic animal pulser or the manhunter pulse psycast.
===As an attack animal===
Elephants are powerful animals, great for damage soak tactics. They have a high health, joint second with megasloths, but elephants are much easier to tame. In addition, elephants will never go manhunter on a failed taming attempt. 
However, this comes at the cost of a high hunger rate. This is not usually a problem, as elephants reside in tropical biomes, but can be an issue during a toxic fallout or caravan trip.
Animal 	Health Scale	DPS	Move Speed	Hunger rate	Training Decay
Thrumbo 	 	 	 	 	
Megasloth 	 	 	 	 	
Elephant 	 	 	 	 	
Rhinoceros	 	 	 	 	
Bear 	 	 	 	 	
===As a pack animal===
Elephants, despite carrying the most out of any pack animal in the game, are not great pack animals. This is due to their high hunger rate. 1 elephant carries less and eats more than 2 muffalo or 5 alpaca. Elephants can be ridden, and the only rideable animal native to the tropics, where their hunger usually isn't an issue. However, any other rideable animal would be better on a caravan (2 donkeys can carry 2 people, 1 elephant can carry 1 person).
In addition, elephants are the only pack animal that isn't a pen animal. For the sole purpose of packing goods, this is a downside, as elephants need to be re-trained. On the flip side, this allows elephants to be a pack animal that fights enemies and hauls goods.
== Training ==
== Health ==
== Trivia ==
Female elephants don't drop tusks when butchered, despite being able to make tusk attacks in melee and displaying the tusks on their texture. If it is intended for female elephants to not have tusks, this may imply that the elephants in-game are Asian Elephants as tusks aren't a sexually dimorphic trait in African Elephants.
== Gallery ==
Elephant east.png|Facing east
Elephant north.png|Facing north
Elephant south.png|Facing south
Dessicated elephant east.png|Decaying
ElephantPack east.png|Packing bags facing east
ElephantPack north.png|Packing bags facing north
ElephantPack south.png|Packing bags facing south
== Version history ==
* 0.12.906 - Added
Category:Animals
Category:Pack Animal
Category:Wild animal