Creature:Spikeface

Sporepedia Description
"The Spikeface is a large beast with many horns and tusks on its face. It is used by the natives of Yggdrasil as a living battering ram!"

Information
The Spikeface is a large herbivorous mammal that lives on the grasslands of the tropical planet, Yggdrasil. These huge behemoths are the size of a black rhinoceros, and like the rhino, it is very aggressive when disturbed. They have multiple tusks on their faces giving them plenty of weapons to deal massive damage to their target, be it a predator attacking its young or just someone at the wrong place at the wrong time...

The Spikeface is a very peculiar animal in the fact that it is a mammal with scales much like a reptile's. Scientists believe the Spikeface's ancestors developed scales to protect themselves from would-be predators. The scales are thick and tough, making it hard for a predator like a Thoranious to penetrate it to kill its would-be prey.

Herd Hierarchy
The Spikeface is a social animal that thrives much more easily when in a large herd of 20 or more individuals. A herd is led by an elderly female of about 60+ years of age, much like the way elephants do on Earth. The leader of the herd, called a matriarch, makes sure that the herd is safe from harm. She and some of her older daughters guard the young calves during feeding. When a predator, such as a Thoranious, gets too close for comfort, the calves are gathered into a circle of the adult members of the herd. If the predator tries to get at a calf, it will be impaled by a sharp tusk!

Bachelor Groups
The males of the population live separately from true herds. Males gather in bachelor groups of up to five and roam across the grasslands. Only during mating season, during the mid-summer season, do males join a herd of females.

Domestication
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