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[HmH]

African Elephants can already weigh several tonnes.

GIANT Elephants? They'd be... I don't even know. If they scale even remotely like other giant critters do, you could construct buildings on their backs.

Take an elephant and increase its height, length and width by 2. You'll get a giant elephant, 8 times more massive than the normal elephant. It'd be about 6 m tall and wide, 12 m long.

[mineforce]

You can make one yourself. It more fun doing it yourself since you can make it exactly how you want.

[TD1]

African Elephants can already weigh several tonnes.

GIANT Elephants? They'd be... I don't even know. If they scale even remotely like other giant critters do, you could construct buildings on their backs.

You're spelling it wrong, they're called Oliphaunts.

[smjjames]

Raw-wise, elephants have a size (volume) of 5 million (which translates to about 5000 kilograms or 5 tons for standard creatures). Giant creature size varies, but for large creatures, it's a *8 multiplier. A standard sperm whale is is 25 million. A giant elephant would be 1.6 times as volumous as a sperm whale (and yes, much smaller than a giant sperm whale), and about as heavy as a brachiosaurus.

African Elephants can already weigh several tonnes.

GIANT Elephants? They'd be... I don't even know. If they scale even remotely like other giant critters do, you could construct buildings on their backs.

Take an elephant and increase its height, length and width by 2. You'll get a giant elephant, 8 times more massive than the normal elephant. It'd be about 6 m tall and wide, 12 m long.

So, yeah, sauropod sized. Not sure if Brachiosaurus is considered average for a sauropod.

[Cobbler89]

I could be wrong, but I've heard that elephants that aren't blowing their trunks or stampeding en masse actually sound rather like ninjas. The reason? Those giant feet, on top of distributing the weight pretty well by size alone, are actually squishy. Or, you know, so I've heard. I've never felt any particularly great need to keep a citation handy about it.

Yeah, skeletal the elephant foot is on it's tip toes, with a MASSIVE fat cushion from the base of the toes all the way to it's heels, and yes the tend to be extremely quite.

Something like this?

Aw, MAN! Of all the things I was sad to see come to an end...

[Uristits]

Giant elephant men would be bad ass.

[StupidElves]

I could be wrong, but I've heard that elephants that aren't blowing their trunks or stampeding en masse actually sound rather like ninjas. The reason? Those giant feet, on top of distributing the weight pretty well by size alone, are actually squishy. Or, you know, so I've heard. I've never felt any particularly great need to keep a citation handy about it.

Yeah, skeletal the elephant foot is on it's tip toes, with a MASSIVE fat cushion from the base of the toes all the way to it's heels, and yes the tend to be extremely quite.

Something like this?

Aw, MAN! Of all the things I was sad to see come to an end...

I have no idea what that is from. I feel ignorant now.

[Alev]

I could be wrong, but I've heard that elephants that aren't blowing their trunks or stampeding en masse actually sound rather like ninjas. The reason? Those giant feet, on top of distributing the weight pretty well by size alone, are actually squishy. Or, you know, so I've heard. I've never felt any particularly great need to keep a citation handy about it.

Yeah, skeletal the elephant foot is on it's tip toes, with a MASSIVE fat cushion from the base of the toes all the way to it's heels, and yes the tend to be extremely quite.

Something like this?

Aw, MAN! Of all the things I was sad to see come to an end...

I have no idea what that is from. I feel ignorant now.

Elves of Amanereli, or some such. It was discontinued by the OP.

[StupidElves]

Ah, a forum thing that was before my time.

[Cobbler89]

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=55601.0

It's well worth reading through, even with sizeable portions taken up by quote pyramids of affirmation. "This and this and thiiiiiiiis." (You know, I feel like we could take that up as our song about the new release...)

[Alev]

Ah, a forum thing that was before my time.

I read it long after it stopped, but it is pretty good. It be here if you want to read it.