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'''Stegopod''' is an [[Earth]] and [[Nature]]-type [[Creo|creo]] introduced in [[EvoCreo]], and the final stage of the line that begins with [[Monkopod]].

Stegopod has a complicated relationship with bees. A single teaspoon of honey takes 12 bees their whole lives to produce, and together they fly more than 750 miles and visit around 30,000 flowers to make it. A Stegopod can eat an entire hive in a week, which comes out to somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 teaspoons.

== Biology ==
Four bowed legs hold up Stegopod's massive 1355 kg body. Its belly hangs low to the ground, while the leafy crest on top of its head reaches 6.5 m in the air. Stegopod also has four huge, leathery wings shaped like leaves, but only the lightest individuals with the largest wings can actually get off the ground. Its long tail ends in a heavy club and a sharp barb, and both are tools for gathering food rather than weapons.

Stegopod's paws are too clumsy for raiding a hive, so it uses its flexible neck and its long, grasping tongue to pull the food out instead.

Stegopod would rather drink tree sap than water, and it uses the barb on its tail to punch holes in trees and tap the sap inside.

Stegopod live alone and guard large territories. This is not because they dislike one another. A single Stegopod simply needs a wide area to forage in, or it would strip its own food supply bare.

Fruit alone is not enough to fill a Stegopod. What it really wants is honey, the thick, concentrated nectar syrup. A hungry Stegopod might knock a hive down with the club on its tail, but most of them understand that they have to harvest carefully if they want food again tomorrow. A Stegopod with the right build can hover a few feet off the ground and pull honeycomb out from inside the hive without bringing the whole thing down.

== Description ==
{{GameTabs
| evocreo2 = Stegopod has a tremendous sweet tooth. If it isn't chewing on honey, it can be found drinking the sap from trees.
| evocreo = Stegopod has a tremendous sweet tooth. If it isn't chewing on honey, it can be found drinking the sap from trees.
}}

== Location ==
Stegopod cannot be captured in the wild. It must be evolved from Kentropod.

== Stats ==
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== Moves ==
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== Evolution ==
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|creo_1_name = Monkopod
|creo_1_content = Base Form
|creo_1_1_name = Kentropod
|creo_1_1_content = Evolves at Level 22
|creo_1_1_1_name = Stegopod
|creo_1_1_1_content = Evolves at Level 38
}}

== Sprites ==
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== Trivia ==

* Stegopod seems to be named after the [[wikipedia:Stegosaurus|Stegosaurus]], a dinosaur from the Jurassic period, with the leaves on the Creo's back resemble the distinctive armored plates of the dinosaur. Stegopod being a Nature-type Creo could be in reference to the fact that Stegosaurus was a herbivore.