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What "Earth-Origin" animals exist in the canon Star Wars universe?


When I was a young teen, I really got into reading the few Star Wars novels that existed at that time. After I exhausted the then current run of books (there were only about 5 or 6 of them), I decided to read the novelizations of the original trilogy.


I no longer own those novels so I can't look up the reference, but I recall that during the beginning of A New Hope, when Luke and Obi-Wan rode into Mos Eisley on Luke's land speeder, Lucas mentioned something of there being a "dog barking".


This always struck me as odd because this was a reference to an animal from Earth in a universe where clearly most creatures were completely unique.


After noticing the reference to a dog I then noticed on my next viewing of ESB that there was a snake on Dagobah.


This has made me curious for years. What other Earth-based creatures have made their way into the "official" Star Wars universe and where do they appear?



Answer





  • There are ducks on Naboo in the movies.





  • Also, in the scripting for Star Wars Obi-Wan said to Luke - "Still even a duck must be taught to swim." to which Luke said "what's a duck."




  • Page 18 of ANH novelization ("STAR WARS: From the adventures of Luke Skywalker") :



    Sandflies buzzed lazily in the cracked eaves of pourstone buildings. A dog barked in the distance...






  • In the made-for-TV Ewoks movies ("Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure" etc...), there are Earth horses


    There are also other Earth animals on Endor as well from the same sources: Llama's, Ponies, etc...




  • In ESB, there are Earth snakes and monitor lizards on Dagobah.




  • Presumably, Falcons exist in TGFFA :)





All in all, I don't see how you find that surprising when the premise is that the dominant race in the Galaxy far far away are 100% human looking and are called "Humans".


Also, it's not impossible for convergent evolution to produce similar designs for similar environmental conditions.


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