What is "mastodonts"

Usage examples of "mastodonts".

Some of the mastodonts trumpeted and rumbled in protest, but, under the calm, watchful eye of Walks With Thunder, they continued to work.

And they would regale each other with tales from their own, peculiarly distorted, version of the Cycle: legends of the heroic Mammut and her calves as they romped through the impossibly rich forests of the far south, where the sun never set and the trees grew taller than a hundred mastodonts stacked up on top of each other.

Some of the mastodonts actually had Fireheads sitting astride their backs, with their long, thin hind legs draped over their necks, feet applying sharp kicks to the mastodonts' small ears.

A foul brown spray knocked the skinny Firehead backward, and the line of mastodonts reacted with stomps and growls of amusement.

And now, as the Fireheads wash over the land, the mastodonts must follow again.

And the Fireheads had built a great stockade of wood and rock, within which the mastodonts were confined.

They carried sticks tipped with curved pieces of bone, which they used to tap the mastodonts on the head or ears or flanks.

Now our Matriarch, the Matriarch of all mastodonts, was called Mammut.

They talked softly and cleared their throats to alert the mastodonts of their approach.

The mastodonts stirred, rumbling, and there was a rustle of leathery skin against the hobbles that bound their legs.

The mastodonts rumbled and whooshed in response, reaching out with their trunks to search the Fireheads' layers of fur for tidbits of food.

Their hobbles were removed—or merely loosened, in the case of Longtusk and a few others, mastodonts in musth and so prone to irritability.

As the mastodonts walked by, the plover got off its nest and ran back and forth, feigning a broken wing, trying to distract these possible predators from the nest itself.

The other mastodonts, some grumbling, had had to accept his share of the load.

He needed the coarse grass and herbs of the steppe, and could tolerate little of the lush leaves and bark the mastodonts preferred.