[id: Digital art of a dragon that resembles an elephant with serpentine characteristics against an orange square background. The dragon has a long flexible tail, fangs at the end of its trunk, long sideswept sauropod-like claws on its feet, human-like breasts, downward facing tusks on the bottom of its jaw, and eye spots on its ears. The body is a dark brownish green with paler stripes and a diamond pattern down its back and on its face. /end id]
Grootslang (Cryptozoology version)
Ancestor to both elephants and snakes. Among the first beings created by the gods and then destroyed for being way too powerful. One escaped the destruction of their kind to become the mother of a race of monsters.
Grootslang like to eat elephants.
The version of the Grootslang in cryptozoology is not accurate to the actual folktales of the people in the region its from, they describe it as a large serpent not some kind of elephant serpent hybrid.