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Macrauchenia
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Physical Attributes
Kingdom Mammalia
Species Macrauchenia
Height Approx. 11 ft.
Weight Varying
Eye Color Varying
Hair color Brown
Skin Color Varying, usually yellow
Diet Herbivore
Gallery


The Macrauchenias, or simply Freaky Mammals, were large mammals that lived during the ice ages.

Traits[]

Herbivorous mammals, freaky mammals had small ears, thick bodies, long thin necks and legs with thick three-toed feet, and long tails. Most notably, however, the mammals had short trunks with which to hold such items as branches. The freaky mammals often traveled in herds and when pressured to, were capable of quick bursts of speed, due to their long legs. Usually golden yellow, some color variations of freaky mammals existed, from tan to dark brown, depending on their points of origin. Enjoys Michael Jackson music, some think it led to them looking like this after years of evolution. What goes around comes around I guess.

History[]

The Marauchenias were among the prey of Humans, Wolves, Saber-toothed Tigers and Scimitar-toothed Cats. Among those creatures heading south during the days of the ice ages, Marauchenias joined the massive herds of animals leaving the woods and forests so as to head to warmer climates.

They ultimately, along with countless other creatures, reached the south regions and enjoyed the naturally-occurring water slides and pools caused by melting ice, but were quick to leave the water parks once danger was revealed in the form of the ice and snow melting, which would result in the valley in which they and all other animals resided in.

Ultimately, the Marauchenias, as well as all other mammals, made it out alive, and left the valley to seek out life elsewhere, a number of them encountering an angry mother Tyrannosaurus Rex, a creature long since thought extinct, that was on the search for her missing offspring.

Further on in time, the Marauchenias were among other animals that lived during the days of the continental drift and were quick with other herds of creatures to leave the land that they once resided in after it underwent the continental drift, reaching a new home by traveling aboard a massive ocean-borne iceberg to a new land.

Few years later, some Marauchenias witnessed a meteor shower, and, not long after that, they were invited to the wedding of Peaches and Julian, 2 mammoths that were members of the herd that stopped a deadly asteroid.

Appearances[]

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Behind the Scenes[]

The reason why the Marauchenias were called the freaky mammals is that the name "freaky mammals" has been invented by who worked on the movie, being present in the concept artwork for the Macrauchenia and in the end credits of the movies, with its name coming from its odd appearance.

The Macrauchenia that appeared in the first filmed had a thin layer of hair, while the ones in the later films did not.

In the mobile game Ice Age Village, the Macrauchenia is referred to as "sneaky mammal".

These Macrauchenia are similar in appearance to the hornless rhinoceros Indricotherium/Paraceratherium, as both of them have long necks, thick legs, small heads and tower over most other creatures. But unlike Indricotherium/Paraceratherium, Macrauchenia may have had a trunk like Mammoths and is not closely related to any extant ungulates.

Gallery[]



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