Shoopuf



The Shoopufs (シパーフ, Shipāfu) are a species of large elephantine animals in Final Fantasy X and X-2. They are used as pack animals by the Hypello to transport customers across the Moonflow. It was an incident involving a Shoopuf that convinced Jecht to quit drinking. He was drunk and mistook a Shoopuf for a Fiend and attacked it. The shame of having High Summoner Braska pay all his money to the owner made Jecht swear to never drink anything stronger than Shoopuf milk again. While heading to Besaid ten years before the game's storyline, Yuna and Kimahri rode a Shoopuf; Yuna fell off into the water, and Kimahri jumped in and saved her. Preceding this, Yuna jumped off of the Shoopuf three more times just for fun, and was saved by the Shoopuf itself each time.

According to a statement by Maechen, Shoopufs never eat, at least not visibly. He also mentions that some believe that they feed on tiny organisms in the water, likely the Spira equivalent of plankton or algae.

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