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* The Weber/Ringo collaboration that is the ''Literature/PrinceRoger'' series has a species referred to variously as 'flar'ta' and 'pagee', described as a hexapedal triceratops, almost. They are herbivorous, and mostly placid, although there is a related species ('flar'ke' or 'pagithar') which is far more aggressive (the analogy drawn is to Cape buffalo). The flar'ta fills much the same role as an elephant- pack animal, mount, and occasionally war beast. There are also the ''civan'' that are used as cavalry mounts. They are described as horse-ostriches, and are two-legged, omnivorous, scaly, and have a vicious streak about two miles wide.

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* The Weber/Ringo collaboration that is the ''Literature/PrinceRoger'' series has a species referred to variously as 'flar'ta' and 'pagee', described as a hexapedal triceratops, almost. They are herbivorous, and mostly placid, although there is a related species ('flar'ke' or 'pagithar') which is far more aggressive (the analogy drawn is to Cape buffalo). The flar'ta fills much the same role as an elephant- pack elephant--pack animal, mount, and occasionally war beast. There are also the ''civan'' that are used as cavalry mounts. They are described as horse-ostriches, and are two-legged, omnivorous, scaly, and have a vicious streak about two miles wide.



* ''Literature/SagaOfTheExiles'', Julian May: The mount of choice for the Tanu dwelling in Earth's prehistoric past is the chaliko- short for chalicothere. Chalicotheres are extinct relatives of horses, rhinos, and tapirs. (Unfortunately, they're also generally pretty slope-backed and have a gait that really wouldn't work well at all on a riding animal. Oh well.)

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* ''Literature/SagaOfTheExiles'', Julian May: The mount of choice for the Tanu dwelling in Earth's prehistoric past is the chaliko- short chaliko--short for chalicothere. Chalicotheres are extinct relatives of horses, rhinos, and tapirs. (Unfortunately, they're also generally pretty slope-backed and have a gait that really wouldn't work well at all on a riding animal. Oh well.)



* ''Literature/StarTrekExMachina'': The Lorini use animals resembling protoceratopians as beasts of burden.

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* ''Literature/StarTrekExMachina'': The Lorini use animals resembling protoceratopians protoceratopsians as beasts of burden.



** Of domesticated mounts, the troqatul, a litoptern from with ancestors from Miocene South America and native to the Free state, is popular for their agility and more varied diet in the Titan forests. The camelid gatul and cattle are popular in Qajar and in Arvel and the Serids respectively, particularly in war fare. Many Parkadians, especially nobles and warriors, are also known to ride u'ruek, [[DomesticatedDinosaurs a domesticated Oviraptor native to the island continent]]. Outside of the Known World, people of the Eastern Continent ride entelodonts that can mimic human speech and the Permian Island once had DragonRider witch kings on the back of giant flying and poison-spitting therapsids.
** For non-domesticated variants, they are pronghorn antelopes, Ghlanos (a gigantic chalicothere), mammoths, Crescent beraphaunt (a Toxodon descendant), and other animals that can be tamed and riden on but lack the temperament or breeding capability that makes them viable to be domesticated.

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** Of domesticated mounts, the troqatul, a litoptern from with ancestors from Miocene South America and native to the Free state, is popular for their agility and more varied diet in the Titan forests. The camelid gatul and cattle are popular in Qajar and in Arvel and the Serids respectively, particularly in war fare.warfare. Many Parkadians, especially nobles and warriors, are also known to ride u'ruek, [[DomesticatedDinosaurs a domesticated Oviraptor native to the island continent]]. Outside of the Known World, people of the Eastern Continent ride entelodonts that can mimic human speech and the Permian Island once had DragonRider witch kings on the back of giant flying and poison-spitting therapsids.
** For non-domesticated variants, they are pronghorn antelopes, Ghlanos (a gigantic chalicothere), mammoths, Crescent beraphaunt (a Toxodon descendant), and other animals that can be tamed and riden on ridden but lack the temperament or breeding capability that makes them viable to be domesticated.
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* The Hokas in ''The Earthman's Burden'' use large, dinosaur-isque lizards as mounts. Particullarly apparent in the first story, in which the influence of the WildWest has even led them to call them "ponies".

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* The Hokas in ''The Earthman's Burden'' use large, dinosaur-isque dinosaur-esque lizards as mounts. Particullarly Particularly apparent in the first story, in which the influence of the WildWest has even led them to call them "ponies".



* ''Literature/{{Gor}}'': Equines don't exist on Gor. There are other animals that fill their niche, such as kailla, some types of thalarion, and tarns.

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* ''Literature/{{Gor}}'': Equines don't exist on Gor. There are other animals that fill their niche, such as kailla, some types of thalarion, tharlarion, and tarns.



* ''Literature/IronCouncil'': The Rudewood's hotchi ride donkey-sized chickens. They also use these oversized, highly aggressive roosters in gladiatorial cockfights.

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* ''Literature/IronCouncil'': The Rudewood's hotchi ride donkey-sized chickens. They also use these the oversized, highly aggressive roosters in gladiatorial cockfights.
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* On the ''Art/CartaMarina'' of 1539, there is an armed troop of "Scricfinns" ("Skiing Finns", meaning Saami) riding to battle on reindeers.

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* On the ''Art/CartaMarina'' of 1539, there is an armed troop of "Scricfinns" ("Skiing Finns", meaning Saami) riding to battle on reindeers.reindeer.
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* ''IceAge:DawnOfTheDinosaurs'' has Buck, Crash and Eddie ride a pterodactyl to travel faster through rocky ravines and canyons to rescue Sid. Buck uses vines as reigns to steer the flying lizard.

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* ''IceAge:DawnOfTheDinosaurs'' ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeDawnOfTheDinosaurs'' has Buck, Crash and Eddie ride a pterodactyl to travel faster through rocky ravines and canyons to rescue Sid. Buck uses vines as reigns to steer the flying lizard.
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* ''Literature/TalesOfKaimere'': While horses (particularly breeds from the Mediterranean during the Mercantile Age) are a popular choice among Kaimerans, they are plenty of other mounts.
** Of domesticated mounts, the troqatul, a litoptern from with ancestors from Miocene South America and native to the Free state, is popular for their agility and more varied diet in the Titan forests. The camelid gatul and cattle are popular in Qajar and in Arvel and the Serids respectively, particularly in war fare. Many Parkadians, especially nobles and warriors, are also known to ride u'ruek, [[DomesticatedDinosaurs a domesticated Oviraptor native to the island continent]]. Outside of the Known World, people of the Eastern Continent ride entelodonts that can mimic human speech and the Permian Island once had DragonRider witch kings on the back of giant flying and poison-spitting therapsids.
** For non-domesticated variants, they are pronghorn antelopes, Ghlanos (a gigantic chalicothere), mammoths, Crescent beraphaunt (a Toxodon descendant), and other animals that can be tamed and riden on but lack the temperament or breeding capability that makes them viable to be domesticated.
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* In "WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland", Puffball serves as this to the other contestants due to her ability to fly, even being the main mode of transportation for her team to get to yoyleland in the second season.

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* In "WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland", WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland, Puffball serves as this to the other contestants due to her ability to fly, even being the main mode of transportation for her team to get to yoyleland in the second season.
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* In "WebAnimation/Battle For Dream Island", Puffball serves as this to the other contestants due to her ability to fly, even being the main mode of transportation for her team to get to yoyleland in the second season.

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* In "WebAnimation/Battle For Dream Island", "WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland", Puffball serves as this to the other contestants due to her ability to fly, even being the main mode of transportation for her team to get to yoyleland in the second season.
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* The ''Literature/{{Safehold}}'' series by Creator/DavidWeber has an interesting variation. Dragons (massive hexapedal reptiles the size of buses) are used as heavy draft animals. Unlike most examples, they aren't replacing any terrestrial animal. Instead, dragons can haul loads no terrestrial critter could, making it practical to bring some truly titanic cannons on campaign.
* In ''The Saga of the Borderlands'' of the Argentine writer Liliana Bodoc, the Desert Shepherds has dedicated themselves to the breeding of llamellos (a combination of the word camello -- camel -- and llama), basically llamas big enough to be ridden by grown men. However, when the sideresios of The Ancient Lands arrive with horses, they are quickly adopted as a mount.
* In Julian May's ''Literature/SagaOfTheExiles'', the mount of choice for the Tanu dwelling in Earth's prehistoric past is the chaliko- short for chalicothere. Chalicotheres are extinct relatives of horses, rhinos, and tapirs. (Unfortunately, they're also generally pretty slope-backed and have a gait that really wouldn't work well at all on a riding animal. Oh well.)
* The ''Literature/{{Spellsinger}}'' novels feature riding snakes: huge serpents capable of carrying a whole party on their back at once. They're neither venomous nor constrictors: they're so large they simply eat their prey live. Fortunately, they seem to have been bred or trained not to consider sentient mammals as prey and restrict themselves to non-sentient reptiles.

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* The ''Literature/{{Safehold}}'' series by Creator/DavidWeber has an ''Literature/{{Safehold}}'', Creator/DavidWeber: An interesting variation. Dragons (massive hexapedal reptiles the size of buses) are used as heavy draft animals. Unlike most examples, they aren't replacing any terrestrial animal. Instead, dragons can haul loads no terrestrial critter could, making it practical to bring some truly titanic cannons on campaign.
* In ''The Saga of the Borderlands'' of the Argentine writer Borderlands'', Liliana Bodoc, the Bodoc: The Desert Shepherds has dedicated themselves to the breeding of llamellos (a combination of the word camello -- camel -- and llama), basically llamas big enough to be ridden by grown men. However, when the sideresios of The Ancient Lands arrive with horses, they are quickly adopted as a mount.
* In Julian May's ''Literature/SagaOfTheExiles'', the Julian May: The mount of choice for the Tanu dwelling in Earth's prehistoric past is the chaliko- short for chalicothere. Chalicotheres are extinct relatives of horses, rhinos, and tapirs. (Unfortunately, they're also generally pretty slope-backed and have a gait that really wouldn't work well at all on a riding animal. Oh well.)
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The ''Literature/{{Spellsinger}}'' novels feature riding snakes: giants who live north of the Wall ride their domesticated mammoths as steeds.
** The Joghos Nai, a nomadic people from the far east, ride striped "zorses" instead of regular horses.
** The barbarians of Skagos are reputed to ride their island's unicorns. The Hairy Men who lived in Essos in ancient times are also said to have ridden unicorns to battle.
** The Targaryens, and their Valyrian ancestors, rode giant flying dragons that, due to their size and power, functioned more like flying war engines than exotic mounts per se.
* ''Literature/{{Spellsinger}}'': Riding snakes are
huge serpents capable of carrying a whole party on their back at once. They're neither venomous nor constrictors: they're so large they simply eat their prey live. Fortunately, they seem to have been bred or trained not to consider sentient mammals as prey and restrict themselves to non-sentient reptiles.



* The Lorini in ''Literature/StarTrekExMachina'' use animals resembling protoceratopians as beasts of burden.

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* The Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger used velociraptors as steeds. So did their counterparts the Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder, though less often since they had motorcycles that weren't murder on the CGI budget.

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* The Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'' used velociraptors as steeds. So did their counterparts the Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder, ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'', though less often since they had motorcycles that weren't murder on the CGI budget.

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* In ''Literature/SugarRain'', the second book of the ''Literature/TheStarbridgeChronicles'' series, characters ride 'horses'. This functions to emphasize that English is really a 'translation' when a rider settles in for the night he gives the 'horse' a feedbag of meat.



* ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'': In the second book ''Literature/SugarRain'', characters ride 'horses'. This functions to emphasize that English is really a 'translation' when a rider settles in for the night he gives the 'horse' a feedbag of meat.
** ''Literature/TheHobbit'': Goblins ride on Wargs -- huge, intelligent, evil wolves.

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Middle-earth, Orcs/goblins cooperate with and often ride on Wargs -- huge, intelligent, evil wolves.wolves known as Wargs. In the Peter Jackson films, Wargs look something like a horse-sized cross between a wolf and a hyena, but in the books they are simply giant wolves.



** Orcs/goblins cooperate with wolves known as Wargs (which roam around on their own in packs) and often the orcs will ride them.
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* Music/AngusMcSix: The laser-shooting dinosaur from the song of same title, a {{cyborg}} theropod with an arsenal of laser guns and a LaserSword in its tail, which Angus rides into battle swinging Sixcalibur.
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* ''Webcomic/UnknownLands'': The elven royalty shows up riding an albino moose, while her retainers are stuck walking.
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* Witches in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' occasionally use giant [[MixAndMatchCritters ratworms]] as mounts. Mention is also made of snake horses (or "snorses", as Luz calls them) that are never seen but are apparently widespread enough that [[HoldYourHippogriffs they're used as a stand-in for horsepower]].
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*Sandybell of ''Anime/HelloSandybell'' rides her Scottish sheepdog/collie mix, Oliver, like a horse, and he even pulls carriages.
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* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'': Nox Monks occasionally ride giant ants that they've tamed with magic. Knocking them off their mounts breaks the spell and results in the ant immediately turning on its rider.

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* ''Literature/{{Gorn}}'': The tarns, large flying birds used as steeds.

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* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsOnline'', guar (a large reptilian creature used as pack animals and cattle) can be obtained as mounts, in addition to horses.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', naturally, your first mount is the series staple chocobo, which can also be trained to fight at your side as a Companion. The ''Heavensward'' expansion added flying chocobos (as in other games in the series, they are black), but also allows your companion chocobo to learn how to fly. In this setting, chocobos of any color apparently aren't flightless by strict definition, they just aren't living in environments where it's necessary for survival.
* ''VideoGame/GaiaOnline'' has a few mount options, mostly from the Wild Things set. The Roc is pretty obviously a chocobo knockoff, and the other Wild Things are a wolf (Fenrir) and a tiger (Khan). In addition, the Fallen Wish item has a serpentine dragon that you can ride, and the Kelp o' the Loch gave you a proper horse... as well as a hobby horse.
* ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'' added a variety of mounts starting with the ''Path of Fire'' expansion. Options include the raptor (bipedal dinosaur), springer (jerboa-like creature), skimmer (levitating manta ray), jackal (magical wolf-like being made of sand), griffon (flying mount), roller beetle (scarab beetle), skyscale (lesser dragon), and siege turtle (turtle).
* ''VideoGame/PerfectWorld'' has every kind of riding mount imaginable, in both living and mechanical forms. Living mounts range from horses (and spectral unicorns of various colors) to flightless birds (including a rainbow-feathered bird called an Aurora, typically awarded to first-time cash shoppers), to bears, lions, tigers, wolves (and even an oversized Golden Retriever dog), to dragons, harpies, and land-bound water creatures (e.g. the Wonderland Goldfish and Horror of the Depths). Mechanical mounts include machine verions of lions and rhinos, a land-bound hot air balloon, a ''Cinderella''-style carriage, a wheel-like structure powered by a running mouse, and even a [[MyHorseIsAMotorbike motorcycle]] [[HandWave said to be powered by the hydrogen present in water]].
* In ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'', the standard animal of monture are giant birds called Peco Peco, whose appearance is not unlike Chocobos. They are limited on use to one class job, however (even if the things are also in the wild and can be captured as pet). With third jobs, Wargs, Griffons and the dragon-like Ferus are now both also fair game, even though they're also still limited to a few classes only.
** And then Mounts are introduced, allowing ''any'' class to ride something to go around. This wildly varies, from giant Poring for Novice class to a llama for Acolytes and [[Manga/{{Naruto}} a giant frog for Ninjas]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Rift}}'' has a similarly eclectic line-up, including everything from ordinary horses to monitor lizards, {{Mechanical Horse}}s, giant squirrels, a creature resembling a huge floating blue glaucus, valmeras (similar to horned, two-tailed lions) and vaiyuu (which look like a cross between an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oviraptor Oviraptor]] and an antelope). And that's only a sampling of the weird mounts in the game.
* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'': Tauntauns, Varactyls, Sleens can all be acquired as mounts. If it's appeared in the background of a movie, an animated series, or just as a random creature in the game, odds are it can be obtained in a rideable form.
* The MMOG ''VideoGame/UltimaOnline'' has an array to choose from. Bipedal dinosaurs without front arms called ostards, llamas, ki-rins, and giant beetles are among the choices.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' series, particularly ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', features such a wide variety of mounts that listing them all would be impractical -- but, luckily, they come in a somewhat tidy number of categories.
** For starters, each of the playable races have a distinctive basic mount. In the Horde, the Orcs ride giant wolves, the Forsaken ride skeletal horses, the Trolls ride raptors, the [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent Tauren]] ride giant lizards called Kodo, the Blood Elves ride giant flightless birds, the Goblins ride three-wheeled motorbikes, the Nightborne ride big cats, the Highmountain Tauren ride moose, and the [[FoxFolk Vulpera]] ride hyenas; in the Alliance, the Dwarves ride rams, the Gnomes ride mechanical birds, the Night Elves ride saber-toothed cats, the Draenei ride elekks (a cross between an elephant and a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrotherium pyrotheria]]), the Void Elves ride Void-infused birds, the Dark Iron Dwarves ride [[LivingLava core hounds]], and the Mechagnomes ride {{Chicken Walker}}s. In fact, the Humans are the only race that gets an actual honest-to-goodness horse (although from an in-universe point of view, these are likely no more or less unusual than giant birds or tame rams). The Pandaren, which are the only playable race that can be either part of the Alliance or the Horde, ride dragon turtles, fittingly as they are from the Azeroth equivalent of China.
*** Averted by the [[WolfMan Worgen]] Alliance race. They don't have their own mount, they just run around on all fours (though you can ride a mount as a Worgen if you choose). The reward mounts for becoming Exalted with the Worgen as another race are simply reskinned horses -- which makes sense considering they used to be humans until very recently, although that doesn't make it less disappointing.
** Then there are the various flying mounts, starting with griffons and giant furry bats and later progressing to sporebats, drakes, miniature helicopters, hippogriffs, etc. Lastly, ''Wrath of the Lich King'' introduced a variety of new land and flying mounts including mammoths, proto-drakes, flying carpets, motorcycles, and turtles; not to mention achievements for acquiring as many mounts as possible. Most of these achievements reward yet another mount, usually particularly unusual.
** There are also class-specific mounts. These are all horses -- or at least ''look'' like horses -- but largely have otherworldly origins, being more explicitly summoned by respective spells (Death Knight mounts are undead, Paladin mounts are divine spirits, and Warlock mounts are [[HellishHorse demonic]]).
** In addition, many more mounts are available as various rewards in the game plus various flying mounts, plus constant new additions available and a variety of limited edition and promotional ones. Wolves, dinosaurs, giant bats, giant lizards, ostriches, dragons, big cats, sheep, pretty much all bases are covered somewhere.
** Horde players technically couldn't even ride (non-[[HellishHorse demonic]] or [[RaisingTheSteaks undead]]) horses until the Argent Warhorse was introduced late in ''Wrath of the Lich King''.
** A lot of this dates back to its RTS roots, such as the sabre-cat mounts preferred by the Night Elves, Orcs riding giant wolves, the Tauren using kodo beasts as pack animals, etc all debuted there. Likewise, the basic flying mounts for both factions (and the ones used for flight paths well before that) have made their first appearances in the RTS.
** It's worth noting that pre-release promotional material for the ''Burning Crusade'' expansion referred to the Blood Elf mount as a Cockatrice; eventually, however, someone at Blizzard realized that introducing a creature with "cock" in its name into a game largely played by teenagers and immature twentysomethings was just ''[[TemptingFate asking]]'' [[TemptingFate for trouble]]. They were renamed Hawkstriders.
** There are even mounts with individual names: like Invincible, the undead winged horse once owned by the Lich King (which you can loot from his corpse, naturally). Some of the dragon mounts are also specific dragons not just random ones, and other times you can get rare mobs as mounts after defeating them. The original game had two mounts that you raised and trained from babies: a dino (for Horde only) and a sabertooth cat (for Alliance only). A few other mounts (but not nearly as many as people want) like this have been added.
* In ''Literature/TheWaterfireSaga'', most merfolk ride hippokamps, but a few are wealthy and crazy enough to have ''orcas'' trained for them.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
** Blood elves ride flightless, vaguely ostrich-like birds called hawkstriders. The void elves -- originally {{defector|FromDecadence}}s from the blood elf faction -- ride voidstriders, Void-infused versions of the blood elves' birds.
** Gnomes get ''robotic'' ostriches called Mechanostriders.
** Trolls like dinosaur mounts and the bipedal dinos are called Ravasaurs. There are several bipedal Ravasaurs in the game. They are basically T-Rexes.
** The Pandarens have riding cranes. One feels sorry for the cranes though, as the Pandaren are quite rotund.
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** In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsOnline'', Seneche tigers are an option, in addition to many other mount options.

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** In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsOnline'', Seneche tigers and guars are an option, options, in addition to many other mount options.



* The various world settings in the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series use an iconic type of giant bird called a chocobo as a riding mount, which has been the inspiration for many of the other entries in this category. Some variations of them can fly (usually black), though most of them are ground-based. Travelling on one is faster than just walking, and usually [[EncounterRepellant avoids running into random encounters]]. ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' also includes chocobos that can run over water, oceans, and mountains, but you have to breed them first. ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' has chocobos with similar capabilities, the catch being that it's actually all just one chocobo that you can keep upgrading throughout the game. You can eventually have it gain all of the capabilities of the gold chocobo from ''VII'' and if you boost it to the max, it can even fly

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* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': The various world settings in the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series use an iconic type of giant bird called a chocobo as a riding mount, which has been the inspiration for many of the other entries in this category. Some variations of them can fly (usually black), though most of them are ground-based. Travelling on one is faster than just walking, and usually [[EncounterRepellant avoids running into random encounters]]. ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' also includes chocobos that can run over water, oceans, and mountains, but you have to breed them first. ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' has chocobos with similar capabilities, the catch being that it's actually all just one chocobo that you can keep upgrading throughout the game. You can eventually have it gain all of the capabilities of the gold chocobo from ''VII'' and if you boost it to the max, it can even flyfly.
* ''VideoGame/GaiaOnline'' has a few mount options, mostly from the Wild Things set. The Roc is pretty obviously a chocobo ersatz, and the other Wild Things are a wolf (Fenrir) and a tiger (Khan). In addition, the Fallen Wish item has a serpentine dragon that you can ride, and the Kelp o' the Loch gave you a proper horse... as well as a hobby horse.



* ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'' added a variety of mounts starting with the ''Path of Fire'' expansion. Options include the raptor (bipedal dinosaur), springer (jerboa-like creature), skimmer (levitating manta ray), jackal (magical wolf-like being made of sand), griffon (flying mount), roller beetle (scarab beetle), skyscale (lesser dragon), and siege turtle (turtle).



* ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji|2016}}'': There's Yama-usagi who rides a giant one-eyed frog, and then there is Mōba who rides ''a goddamn tea pot''. With legs ''and'' fangs.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji|2016}}'': There's Yama-usagi who rides a giant one-eyed frog, and then there is Mōba who rides ''a goddamn tea pot''. With legs ''and'' fangs.fangs.
* ''VideoGame/PerfectWorld'' has every kind of riding mount imaginable, in both living and mechanical forms. Living mounts range from horses (and spectral unicorns of various colors) to flightless birds (including a rainbow-feathered bird called an Aurora, typically awarded to first-time cash shoppers), to bears, lions, tigers, wolves (and even an oversized Golden Retriever dog), to dragons, harpies, and land-bound water creatures (e.g. the Wonderland Goldfish and Horror of the Depths). Mechanical mounts include machine verions of lions and rhinos, a land-bound hot air balloon, a ''Cinderella''-style carriage, a wheel-like structure powered by a running mouse, and even a [[MyHorseIsAMotorbike motorcycle]] [[HandWave said to be powered by the hydrogen present in water]].



* ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'':
** The standard animal of monture are giant birds called Peco Peco, whose appearance is not unlike Chocobos. They are limited on use to one class job, however (even if the things are also in the wild and can be captured as pet). With third jobs, Wargs, Griffons and the dragon-like Ferus are now both also fair game, even though they're also still limited to a few classes only.
** Mounts were later introduced, allowing ''any'' class to ride something to go around. This wildly varies, from giant Poring for Novice class to a llama for Acolytes and [[Manga/{{Naruto}} a giant frog for Ninjas]].



* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'': Tauntauns, Varactyls, Sleens can all be acquired as mounts. If it's appeared in the background of a movie, an animated series, or just as a random creature in the game, odds are it can be obtained in a rideable form.



* The MMOG ''VideoGame/UltimaOnline'' has an array to choose from. Bipedal dinosaurs without front arms called ostards, llamas, ki-rins, and giant beetles are among the choices.



* ''Franchise/{{Warcraft}}'':
** ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'': The Orc Raider units, and their Hero, Thrall, make use of rather large wolves as mounts. The game's Night Elf faction also includes mounted warriors riding large predatory cats such as Panthers and White Tigers. There is also the windrider: which is a wyvern (not a dragon but a winged lion).
** ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': The orcs ride Draenor's large wolves and Night Elves ride tigers in a dizzying variety of colors. You can also use these mounts as other races. There are also rideable lions, bears, wyverns, chimeras (which are two-headed wyverns), sharks, etc. Some of the other mount creatures may be predators, it's occasionally hard to tell.

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* ''Franchise/{{Warcraft}}'':
** ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'':
The Orc Raider units, ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' series, particularly ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', features such a wide variety of mounts that listing them all would be impractical -- but, luckily, they come in a somewhat tidy number of categories.
** For starters, each of the playable races have a distinctive basic mount. In the Horde, the Orcs ride giant wolves, the Forsaken ride skeletal horses, the Trolls ride raptors, the [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent Tauren]] ride giant lizards called Kodo, the Blood Elves ride giant flightless birds, the Goblins ride three-wheeled motorbikes, the Nightborne ride big cats, the Highmountain Tauren ride moose,
and the [[FoxFolk Vulpera]] ride hyenas; in the Alliance, the Dwarves ride rams, the Gnomes ride mechanical birds, the Night Elves ride saber-toothed cats, the Draenei ride elekks (a cross between an elephant and a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrotherium pyrotheria]]), the Void Elves ride Void-infused birds, the Dark Iron Dwarves ride [[LivingLava core hounds]], and the Mechagnomes ride {{Chicken Walker}}s. In fact, the Humans are the only race that gets an actual honest-to-goodness horse (although from an in-universe point of view, these are likely no more or less unusual than giant birds or tame rams). The Pandaren, which are the only playable race that can be either part of the Alliance or the Horde, ride dragon turtles, fittingly as they are from the Azeroth equivalent of China.
** Averted by the [[WolfMan Worgen]] Alliance race. They don't have
their Hero, Thrall, own mount, they just run around on all fours (though you can ride a mount as a Worgen if you choose). The reward mounts for becoming Exalted with the Worgen as another race are simply reskinned horses -- which makes sense considering they used to be humans until very recently, although that doesn't make use it less disappointing.
** Then there are the various flying mounts, starting with griffons and giant furry bats and later progressing to sporebats, drakes, miniature helicopters, hippogriffs, etc. Lastly, ''Wrath
of rather large wolves the Lich King'' introduced a variety of new land and flying mounts including mammoths, proto-drakes, flying carpets, motorcycles, and turtles; not to mention achievements for acquiring as many mounts as possible. Most of these achievements reward yet another mount, usually particularly unusual.
** There are also class-specific
mounts. The game's These are all horses -- or at least ''look'' like horses -- but largely have otherworldly origins, being more explicitly summoned by respective spells (Death Knight mounts are undead, Paladin mounts are divine spirits, and Warlock mounts are [[HellishHorse demonic]]).
** In addition, many more mounts are available as various rewards in the game plus various flying mounts, plus constant new additions available and a variety of limited edition and promotional ones. Wolves, dinosaurs, giant bats, giant lizards, ostriches, dragons, big cats, sheep, pretty much all bases are covered somewhere.
** Horde players technically couldn't even ride (non-[[HellishHorse demonic]] or [[RaisingTheSteaks undead]]) horses until the Argent Warhorse was introduced late in ''Wrath of the Lich King''.
** A lot of this dates back to its RTS roots, such as the sabre-cat mounts preferred by the
Night Elves, Orcs riding giant wolves, the Tauren using kodo beasts as pack animals, etc all debuted there. Likewise, the basic flying mounts for both factions (and the ones used for flight paths well before that) have made their first appearances in the RTS.
** It's worth noting that pre-release promotional material for the ''Burning Crusade'' expansion referred to the Blood
Elf mount as a Cockatrice; eventually, however, someone at Blizzard realized that introducing a creature with "cock" in its name into a game largely played by teenagers and immature twentysomethings was just ''[[TemptingFate asking]]'' [[TemptingFate for trouble]]. They were renamed Hawkstriders.
** There are even mounts with individual names: like Invincible, the undead winged horse once owned by the Lich King (which you can loot from his corpse, naturally). Some of the dragon mounts are also specific dragons not just random ones, and other times you can get rare mobs as mounts after defeating them. The original game had two mounts that you raised and trained from babies: a dino (for Horde only) and a sabertooth cat (for Alliance only). A few other mounts (but not nearly as many as people want) like this have been added.
** In ''Literature/TheWaterfireSaga'', most merfolk ride hippokamps, but a few are wealthy and crazy enough to have ''orcas'' trained for them.
** Blood elves ride flightless, vaguely ostrich-like birds called hawkstriders. The void elves -- originally {{defector|FromDecadence}}s from the blood elf
faction also includes mounted warriors riding large predatory cats such as Panthers -- ride voidstriders, Void-infused versions of the blood elves' birds.
** Gnomes get ''robotic'' ostriches called Mechanostriders.
** Trolls like dinosaur mounts
and White Tigers. the bipedal dinos are called Ravasaurs. There is also are several bipedal Ravasaurs in the windrider: which is a wyvern (not a dragon but a winged lion).game. They are basically T-Rexes.
** ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': The orcs ride Draenor's large wolves and Night Elves ride tigers in a dizzying variety of colors. You can also use these mounts Pandarens have riding cranes. One feels sorry for the cranes though, as other races. There the Pandaren are also rideable lions, bears, wyverns, chimeras (which are two-headed wyverns), sharks, etc. Some of the other mount creatures may be predators, it's occasionally hard to tell. quite rotund.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'', Bernard tames and rides a wild razorback boar to rescue Jake, Bianca, Cody, and Marahute from EvilPoacher Percival [=McLeach=], and uses it to steal the keys to the man's truck. Also, the mice tame and ride a flying squirrel and a snake.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'', Bernard tames and rides a wild razorback boar to rescue Jake, Bianca, Cody, and Marahute from EvilPoacher Percival [=McLeach=], and uses it to steal the keys to the man's truck. Also, the mice tame and ride a flying squirrel sugar glider and a snake.
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* Donkeys: Although notoriously less cooperative and a bit small for riding, donkeys and their half-horse offspring, mules and hinnies, are pretty much the only animals besides horses to be used extensively as mounts and haulers of vehicles ''worldwide'', as opposed to in specific extreme environments or limited geographic regions.
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* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' takes it to a LiteralMetaphor, as the Gatekeeper states that the purple horse is "a horse of a different color!" Sure enough, in every camera shot featuring the horse, it's a different color -- purple, yellow, red, and so forth.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}}'': There's Yama-usagi who rides a giant one-eyed frog, and then there is Mōba who rides ''a goddamn tea pot''. With legs ''and'' fangs.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}}'': ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji|2016}}'': There's Yama-usagi who rides a giant one-eyed frog, and then there is Mōba who rides ''a goddamn tea pot''. With legs ''and'' fangs.

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