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Tusk cat

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Tusk cat
Designation

Nonsentient

Planet of origin

Naboo and Corellia

Height of average adult

3 meters

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The tusk cat was a fawn-colored feline predator found on the world of Naboo and its moon Rori.

A domesticated tusk cat.

Unlike most tusked animals, the tusks of a tusk cat did not grow from their upper jaw, but were completely external from the oral cavity, and actually grew from their lower jaw. These tusks were sharp and could be used to hunt, and for protection.

On Naboo, tusk cats often preyed upon smaller animals such as the peko-peko. Despite their predatory nature, the larger ones could be tamed and ridden for recreation and to serve as a mount for the Royal Naboo Security Forces. Domesticated tusk cats were also used as mounts by shaak herders tending to their grazing herds.

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[edit] Behind the scenes

It should be noted that wild tusk cats (and other animals such as gundarks as portrayed in Galactic Battlegrounds) can be thought of as the equivalent of wolves and other neutral/Gaia units from Age of Empires. Tusk cats appear both as wild creatures, and as mounts for the Naboo cavalry units in Clone Campaigns, replacing the kaadu in Galactic Battlegrounds.

The tusk cats resemble the real-life prehistoric marsupial predator Thylacosmilus from prehistoric South America.

[edit] Appearances

Ceremonial tusk cats.

[edit] Sources

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