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47. Aurochs. and 48. Impala. These two compounds have been around for a while, mainly in fairy chess problems. I've toyed with them for a while, but not until today did I make the association between them (the pieces, not the animal) as being related. They're another pair that I think are underappreciated and underused, having especial potential on large variants of 12x12 and larger.
The Aurochs (sometimes misnamed Auroch) combines the moves of the Knight and Giraffe (NFX).
The real-life Aurochs is a now-extinct (since 1657) species of cattle, and one of the largest.
The Impala combines the moves of the Knight and Antelope (NYN).*
The animal known as the Impala is a little more familiar, as a species of antelope living in eastern and southern Africa.
(You weren't expecting a Chevy, were you? If I did that, I'd probably use the car from Supernatural as a basis, and then try a similar trick with the Nightrider.)
*My normal inclination would be to write it is NNY, but the Interactive Diagrams interpret that as a Nightrider with an unknown Y atom.
I'm working on supplementing these two with pieces I'm currently calling a Baboon (FXNY) and Lemur (NFXNY), pending someone pointing out that those moves are already in a game somewhere under some other name (or even just suggesting something better, especially for the Baboon).