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Mongo Grongo
Pelorotitan
Meaning: Massive Titan
Description: Massive armored sauropod
Species: P. giganteus, P. primus
Family: Sauropoda, Macronaria, Lognkosauridae
Length: 150-200 feet
Lifestyle: Browser and grazer
Range: North and South America, Eurasia

Distinguishing features: The largest lognkosaurian sauropod, the largest herbivore, the largest animal on earth, the Mongo Grongo is a record breaker in all respects. An adult weighs 85 tons and stands 80 feet tall with its neck craned upward. Adults are as impressively armored as a stegosaur, with bony osteoderms, shoulder and back spikes (much like the titanosaur Agustinia), and tail spines that are ten feet long or more. The armor is mainly used for storage of important minerals during extreme shifts in climate, a trait carried over from its ancestors and it is only the tail spikes that are used in defense. Beautifully colored dinosaurs, Mongo Grongos are blue-gray with a dark grey back covered in green vertical stripes, and a yellow underbelly. They also have blood red throat and nasal sacs. Mongo Grongos live in small herds of up to twenty consisting of a bull, his harem of up to five females and his young. New blood comes into the herd via lone bachelor males that attempt to unseat the dominant bull in spectacular and often fatal matches. They usually do not succeed. During the breeding season, the females will give live birth to two or three young, most often twins. The male will mate with the female shortly after the young can stand. The young do not get their distinctive spikes until they are two years old. They will leave to live on their own at age six. Adolescents become fully grown at age eleven and males will form their own herds. It is not uncommon for a bull Mongo Grongo to live almost 150 years and even older ones are not unheard of either.

Habits and Habitat: Found mostly on the open plains, Mongo Grongos are constantly on the move due to their massive appetites. They will eat any vegetation and also will occasionally scavenge carrion, even if it is near inedible and are extremely generalized in their preference of food. Many herbivores follow them for protection or to take advantage of what they leave behind. Pterosaurs, birds, and smaller dinosaurs will also use them as perches and one, the tiny Nanoceratops can and often will live out its entire life on the backs of Mongo Grongos. Because of its size, it is also the only sauropod that can tolerate subzero temperatures of the arctic wastes. Adults have only three enemies, Vastatotyrannus, Gorgoraptor, and Tyrannoraptor, all predators being symbiotically linked. These two highly intelligent predators will gang up and attack them and are known to stampede them over gorges and cliffs. These predators are usually fled from, but if they need to, Mongo Grongos will stand and fight, often skewering predators on their tail spikes. It is not uncommon to see Mongo Grongos with scars from such failed attacks and many predators know to steer clear from this usually benignly tempered behemoth.

The ultimate sauropod, descended from the same family that spawned Puertosaurus. It is as long as the near-mythical Amphicoelias, a real diplodocid from the Jurassic that is known from a single vertebrae that was discovered by the famed Edward Drinker Cope and crumbled into dust as he was transporting it.

Description
Mongo Grongo
Pelorotitan
Meaning: Massive Titan
Description: Massive armored sauropod
Species: P. giganteus, P. primus
Family: Sauropoda, Macronaria, Lognkosauridae
Length: 150-200 feet
Lifestyle: Browser and grazer
Range: North and South America, Eurasia

Distinguishing features: The largest lognkosaurian sauropod, the largest herbivore, the largest animal on earth, the Mongo Grongo is a record breaker in all respects. An adult weighs 85 tons and stands 80 feet tall with its neck craned upward. Adults are as impressively armored as a stegosaur, with bony osteoderms, shoulder and back spikes (much like the titanosaur Agustinia), and tail spines that are ten feet long or more. The armor is mainly used for storage of important minerals during extreme shifts in climate, a trait carried over from its ancestors and it is only the tail spikes that are used in defense. Beautifully colored dinosaurs, Mongo Grongos are blue-gray with a dark grey back covered in green vertical stripes, and a yellow underbelly. They also have blood red throat and nasal sacs. Mongo Grongos live in small herds of up to twenty consisting of a bull, his harem of up to five females and his young. New blood comes into the herd via lone bachelor males that attempt to unseat the dominant bull in spectacular and often fatal matches. They usually do not succeed. During the breeding season, the females will give live birth to two or three young, most often twins. The male will mate with the female shortly after the young can stand. The young do not get their distinctive spikes until they are two years old. They will leave to live on their own at age six. Adolescents become fully grown at age eleven and males will form their own herds. It is not uncommon for a bull Mongo Grongo to live almost 150 years and even older ones are not unheard of either.

Habits and Habitat: Found mostly on the open plains, Mongo Grongos are constantly on the move due to their massive appetites. They will eat any vegetation and also will occasionally scavenge carrion, even if it is near inedible and are extremely generalized in their preference of food. Many herbivores follow them for protection or to take advantage of what they leave behind. Pterosaurs, birds, and smaller dinosaurs will also use them as perches and one, the tiny Nanoceratops can and often will live out its entire life on the backs of Mongo Grongos. Because of its size, it is also the only sauropod that can tolerate subzero temperatures of the arctic wastes. Adults have only three enemies, Vastatotyrannus, Gorgoraptor, and Tyrannoraptor, all predators being symbiotically linked. These two highly intelligent predators will gang up and attack them and are known to stampede them over gorges and cliffs. These predators are usually fled from, but if they need to, Mongo Grongos will stand and fight, often skewering predators on their tail spikes. It is not uncommon to see Mongo Grongos with scars from such failed attacks and many predators know to steer clear from this usually benignly tempered behemoth.

The ultimate sauropod, descended from the same family that spawned Puertosaurus. It is as long as the near-mythical Amphicoelias, a real diplodocid from the Jurassic that is known from a single vertebrae that was discovered by the famed Edward Drinker Cope and crumbled into dust as he was transporting it.