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| nation         = earth
| image          = Elephant mandrill.png
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| habitat        = [[Earth Kingdom]]
| status         = Active
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| appearance     = "[[The Tales of Ba Sing Se]]"
| lastappearance = ''[[Beasts of the Four Nations: Creatures From Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra]]''
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}}The '''elephant mandrill''' is a chimerical [[Fauna in the World of Avatar|creature]] found in the [[Earth Kingdom]].<ref name="TBSS">{{Cite episode|1|215}}</ref><ref name="BFN-101">''[[Beasts of the Four Nations: Creatures From Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra]]'', page 101.</ref>

== History ==
While staying in [[Ba Sing Se]], [[Aang]] found a gloomy and desolated [[Ba Sing Se Zoo|zoo]] where all the animals were kept in small cages. One of the present beasts was an elephant mandrill, who lay in a pen that was too small for his size. Upon deciding to help the animals, Aang released all the creatures in order to guide them to a larger facility in the [[Ba Sing Se#Agrarian Zone|Agrarian Zone]] of the city. However, upon being freed, the elephant mandrill rampaged through the streets of Ba Sing Se, scaring a number of [[Society in the World of Avatar|civilians]]. The animal was out of control until it heard the signal of Aang's [[bison whistle]] and followed the sound outside the city's wall, where it ended up in a larger and greener pen in the newly created zoo.<ref name="TBSS" />

== Anatomy ==
The elephant mandrill is a hybridized creature with the body of an elephant, and the colorful head of a mandrill, a baboon-like primate. Its stocky body, with the exception of its elephant-like legs, is covered with shaggy brown fur.<ref name="TBSS" /><ref name="BFN-101" />

== Behavior ==
Elephant mandrills usually live in strictly hierarchical packs, and they fight each other to determine their position within the hierarchy. As a result, elephant mandrills are naturally competitive and are quite aggressive, though their violence tends be focused on destructive displays instead of hurting their opponents.<ref name="BFN-101" />

Their competitive aggression can be a major issue when they are captured and placed into human-dominated areas such as zoos, as they might regard their captors as rivals to be challenged for the dominant position.<ref name="BFN-101" /> As they are very strong, this may trigger destructive rampages by captive elephant mandrills, especially if they manage to escape into urban sections.<ref name="TBSS" /><ref name="BFN-101" />

== Connection ==
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The elephant mandrill has the shaggy fur coat and distinctive face of a mandrill. The male mandrill has the most vividly colored face of any mammal, with a scarlet band of hairless skin that extends down from between its eyes, flaring out to cover its nostrils, and flanked by vertical bands of blue skin on either side. Its lower jaw is adorned with an orange-yellow beard. The elephant mandrill's connection to the elephant is its massive size and its legs, as well as its distinct trumpeting call.

== References ==
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== See also ==
* [[Ba Sing Se Zoo]]
* [[Fauna in the World of Avatar]]

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