Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26553378-20160724223320/@comment-26347028-20160725164503

Roaming backs of giant gold velociraptors would be "cool" and "epic" but they'd also be unreasonable. A little less of an extent here, but the premise is the exact same. The massive elephants are unreasonable in terms of the vegetation required to feed any species of that size. If they were to live in the jungle, they'd need to eat trees to survive. If they lived in the Savannah, they can't. The elephants you suggest are simply too big to be realistic. Perhaps a few feet taller than African elephants would be reasonable, but barely. And they'd be rarer still than the other elephants due to the extra food requirement. The other elephants are rare enough already. Hence, it's entirely unreasonable to say they're as massive as you want them to be. Mammoths seemed to be able to survive due to the absence of anything to eat their food source, but the jungles are full of wildlife, and the savannahs have hardly anything there. Elephants would barely be able to survive as they are, especially in any form of large number. Now how on Earth are you suggesting extremely massive? The likelihood is similar to pink unicorns in places - can't be ruled out, but highly unlikely and they have to be rare. Now, I hardly think there'd be a massive amount of point in giving them all this attention if they weren't much more than elephants without just calling them elephants. Oh hang on.