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Kodos look like they're based on an IRL animal

I'm a big fan of prehistory, and Azeroth's wildlife is littered with stylized versions of extinct animals. With the Legion remodel, I've started riding my Kodo for the first time in forever, and I remembered thinking about this back in BC when I first started playing.

[Here's a Kodo](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CYovkBbWsAADk5A.png)

[And here's an extinct species of Brontothere (I think it's Megacerops).](http://nmnh.typepad.com/.a/6a01156e4c2c3d970c0163058a65f5970d-pi)

Despite appearances, Brontotheres are actually most closely related to modern horses. Megacerops was bigger than any modern rhino (well over three tons in weight), so they'd be great for lugging Tauren around. There's not a lot of animals with bifurcated nose horns like that, but I've never found any confirmation from a Blizzard artist that they're the inspiration.

Just thought it would be cool to share this for those who were unaware.

[More Brontotheres!](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Titanotherium.jpg/800px-Titanotherium.jpg) The main difference seems to be that Kodo have a reptilian tail instead the thin fly-swatting one found on mammal herbivores.

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