Pachylleloderms

For Tim Morris, in appreciation of his short-necked Catoblepas! [link]

A - So three blind men approach a Parallelephant--and one of them is promptly strangled, while the other two are savagely bitten and die in terrible pain... Thinking this one might actually work better from a practical perspective if the central trunk bears the striking, venomous head while the two "tusk" trunks are ground-hugging constrictors. The ears flare out like a cobra's hood!

B - We've all heard of sauropods with elephant trunks, but how about elephants with sauropod trunks...? Pseudelephant with brachiosaurid neck for browsing and nigersaurid necks for grazing. I'm sure the elephant mouth wouldn't be retained in its standard location, but I left one there just in case.

C - "Hox-y" version of B, and/or a bio fantasy take on Adventure Time's "Tree Trunks."

This whole deal started with A, an image flash inspired by Allison Theus's latest snake-derived dragons ([link]). (Probably doesn't hurt that I was captivated by the elephants and an emerald tree boa last time I went to the zoo.) The brachio-/niger- variant flowed naturally from that, and from thence onto C. I wasn't planning on doing anything with them, but then I saw Tim's Parallelephant and I was like, DAMN, HE'S DROPPED THE GLOVE!!

Just occurred to me that these could also be Raman constructs: [link]