Cannok

"That's the problem with cannoks&hellip; if you turn your back on the pests, they'll eat anything they can get in their mouth."

- Zuka

The predators known as cannoks were native to the moon of Dxun. They were relatively harmless to Humans, but they had a habit of eating anything that can fit in their mouths, which were quite large for an animal of its size. It was because of this tendency that cannoks often made trouble for the local camp of Mandalorians, such as when they devoured the components of a phase-pulse converter that was being constructed by Zuka, the tech specialist. When the Jedi Exile arrived on the jungle moon in 3,951 BBY, she slew every cannok in the vicinity of the encampment and recovered the necessary components for the Mandalorians.

A handful of cannok specimens were transported to Telos by the Ithorians of Citadel Station during the years following the Jedi Civil War to assist in the Telosian Restoration Project.

Cannoks were prey to the maalraas, but if they were enough they could often scare away the predator or kill it. However, they had no defense against the real top-predator of Dxun; the zakkeg.

These could have been the same creatures led by Darth Talon on Vendaxa.

Appearances

 * Tales of the Jedi: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
 * Star Wars Legacy 5: Broken, Part 4