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* While Akamaru the dog from ''[[Naruto]]'' is as small as most dogs before the time-skip, he grows to the size of a pony over the course of 2 and a half years. His owner, Kiba, uses him as a mount occasionally post-timeskip.
** And Kiba acts surprised when Naruto brings it up. "Really? I must not have noticed!"
** Other ninja dogs, including Kakashi's and Kuromaru (the one used by Kiba's mom), are capable of talking. And after the [[Time Skip]] Kuromaru is inexplicably [https://web.archive.org/web/20141023114719/http://read.mangashare.com/Naruto/chapter-429/page007.html even larger than Akamaru].
* In the Magic World of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', the mount of choice appears to be dinosaur-like reptiles such as the one {{spoiler|[[Genki Girl|Makie]]}} rode while buying groceries for the bar she worked in.
* ''[[Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind]]'' features "Warbeasts", which are something like giant, shaggy dogs with cow horns & lizard-like feet.
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=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* Giant eagles were favored as steeds by Winnowill's people in ''[[Elf Quest]]''.
* In the prequel comic book to the video game ''[[The Elder Scrolls]] Adventures: Reguard'', itself entitled [https://web.archive.org/web/20090406223513/http://www.imperial-library.info/rgbooks/cyrus_index.shtml The Origin of Cyrus], depicts Dark Elves riding astride giant wasp-like creatures. None of the games feature this, presumably for time/budget/technical reasons. However, in Morrowind, you CAN ride giant tick-like creatures from one town to another.
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* Taylor Anderson's ''[[Destroyermen]]'' trilogy has domesticated elephant-sized dinosaurs which the U.S. destroyer crews, not knowing the "brontosaurus" was actually an apatosaurus, think of as miniature brontosaurs and call "brontosarries."
* In "The Atlantean Age", a setting book for [[Hero System|Fantasy Hero]], the Tellat Empire fields units mounted on "battledons"—take a rhino, make it 50% bigger, and add extra horns, claws, and bad attitude. Meanwhile the Hazarians look almost normal with their knights in plate armor riding giant wolves.
* The ''[[Planet of Adventure]]'' series by [[Jack Vance]] has "leap-horses" as the native substitute quadruped. They have heads resembling a horned tapir and exaggeratedly long necks as shown [http://membres.multimania.fr/jackvance/covers/tschai1v.jpg here]{{Dead link}}. As their name implies their motion is more of a bounding motion that a horse-like gait. All in all riding one sounds like a fast-track to lower back problems.
* Creatures called "chimelos," which [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|may or may not be dromedaries]], are used as mounts by desert-dwellers in ''[[Indigo|Infanta]]''.
* John Maddox Roberts's ''Stormlands'' series has "cabos" (the word is implied to be derived from the Spanish ''caballo''; essentially four-horned horses) and "humpers" (basically camels, only with horns and tusks).
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* Flynn from ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'' uses a horse-like monster with reptilian traits as a steed in one scene.
** The same variety of monster is also seen being used to tow merchant caravans in ''[[Tales of Xillia]]''.
* In the first ''[[Grandia (video game)|Grandia]]'' game, there was promotional material as well as [http://comenzarjuego.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/grandia-1.jpga small cameo]{{Dead link}} in the game proper of a large, long-legged turtle which was used as a mount. [[What Could Have Been|Unfortunately]], you don't get to ride it at all, and disappeared after one town.
* In the point-and-click adventure ''AmerZone'', you get to ride one of the natives' mounts: a smooth-skinned, swamp-adapted giraffe.
* In ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]] V'', various things are used as rides: unicorns (Sylvan heroes), dinosaur-like lizards (Dungeon heroes and units, [[And Zoidberg|and]] [[Defector From Decadence|Agrael]]), elephants (Academy heroes), ''mammoths'' (Fortress heroes), [[Everything's Worse with Bears|bears]] (Fortress units), and oxen (Orc heroes).
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* ''[[Erfworld]]'' is home to a broad variety of mounts, including spidews, dwagons, gwiffons, unipegataurs, megalogwiffs, tankeroos (kangaroo-shaped cloth golems), elephant-shaped cloth golems, and a glass golem which appears to actually be in the form of a horse.
* Megatokyo gives us the Rent-A-Zilla whom {{spoiler|Yuki Sonoda takes to riding once her [[Magical Girl]] abilities really start to kick in.}} Largo has made use of them in this way, too.
* [[Doodze]] features a [http://seguemediagroup.com/doodze/?p=942 squirrel.]{{Dead link}} (Not a giant squirrel. Doodzes are tiny.)
* ''[[Uncreation]]'' features the centitrains, which are giant centipedes that (unsurprisingly) function as trains. They even have the ability to seperate like train carriages - by ''ripping themselves in half'' and then regenerating a new head out of the wound.
* In the world of ''[[Drowtales]]'' it's actually pretty rare to see a regular horse, and the 9 Great Clans seem to prefer using their clan's symbol as a mount. To count it off:
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