Hoe-Tusk Gompophant

The Hoe-Tusk Gompophant was a large species of Gompophant that inhabit the savanna plains of Northern and Central Gondwana. They are part of the four species of Gompophants, and is in fact the largest.

Male Hoe-Tusk Gompophants measure up to 6.1 meters (20 ft) and females measure up to 5.9 meters (19 ft tall), a similar height to giraffes, and male and female calves measured up to 0.91 meters (2 ft), similar to Alpacas. They also weighed around 11 tons, and calves were around 167 kg. The tusks that this Gompophant had were located on its lower jaw and its tusk plan was being curved downward, just like the prehistoric Deinotherium on Earth, which looks exactly like the Gompophant species, and the tusks were mainly used for harvesting roots and removing grass and plants, like a hoe, hence the name, and was also especially useful when it came to stripping bark off of tree trunks.The Hoe-Tusk Gompophant also had a smaller trunk than most of its relatives, but not as short as the Pygmy Gompophant, which had the smallest trunk out of the four species, and also had very small ears, which all Gompophant species had.

The person who discovered the Hoe-Tusk, Peter Summers, who also discovered a few other animal species on Gondwana, said in the series that “The Hoe-Tusk Gompophant was an animal worth keeping a distance from, like the prehistoric Deinotherium” because of its sheer size, as well as immense power and bulk. Even some predators would stay away from it, but one predator is brave enough to try and kill this not-so-gentle giant, which is the Gondwana Lion. The females and the juvenlies also show some degree of aggression unlike normal Earth elephants, by just chasing other animals off. Summers also claimed that his son, George, had a near-death experience with this animal. As his son came with his father on the expedition, the giant Gompophant chased them, and George almost got trampled by the beast, before being lured away by the smell of a Potato Plant.