Tauntaun

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Tauntauns were genetically similar to Kybucks and featured a mix of traditionally reptilian features, such as a lack of mammary glands and scaly skin. They were also warm-blooded, covered in fur (which ranged from grey to white). The gave birth to live young, mammalian characteristics. Tountouns adaptations to the bitter, cold environs of Hoth. Adaptations included wide feet for running across icy surfaces, swiveling ears, think blubber, chambered lungs and dual nostrils and a digestive system that excreted wastes as oils through skin pores, producing a distinctive odor.

Hoth was the sixth planet of the remote Hoth system. A desolate, ice-covered world located in the Anoat Sector, a rarely-traveled portion of the Outer Rim Territories, it became famous as the one-time location of the Alliance to Restore the Republic’s Echo Base during the Galactic Civil War. It was also the site of the Battle of Hoth, a Major engagement between Imperial and Rebel forces. The Tauntauns also for many years inhabited this planet whos only natural enemy was the wampas until the evil empire started to hunt the tauntauns for food and fur.

Tauntauns were matriarchal animals and lived in herds of twenty to thirty individuals. Horn-butting matches were common among both males and females who hoped to establish dominance. They tended to be ill-tempered, a natural result of evolving in such an inhospitable environment. A peculiar form of "attack" among the females, and some of the males, during mating season was their spitting ability. Tauntauns would spit at each other's eyes, with surprising accuracy. While their smelly saliva was by no means deadly, it was quite inconvenient to have any liquid freeze near their eyes in Hoth's blizzards.

//Inspired by the [|Tauntaun] creatures in Star Wars.//