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The boar-wolves, or borra, were a predatory animal that lived on the forest moon of Endor.
Characteristics[]

A howling boar-wolf
Boar-wolves had been known to be three meters tall.[3] They had hair, sharp teeth, a humped back,[4] two tusks[2] and large, hooked claws[4] that could tear holes in trees. They had pungent and stringy meat.[5]
They had a penchant[5] for howling at the gas giant Endor when it appeared in the night sky.[4] With a keen sense of smell,[3] they usually hunted in pairs for prey such as blurrgs and Ewoks, preying anything that came across their path.[2] These truly impressive predators possessed an incredible patience to hide and wait out of sight once they have cornered their prey, having fed on many Ewoks this way.[5]
History[]
Tough the boar-wolves are three times as tall as the Ewoks, they had somehow stumbled upon effective methods for fighting the monsters with spears and poison darts. The Ewoks first baited a clever trap with scraps of bloody meat from other kills and carefully hide a vine net on the forest floor. When a boar-wolf attempted to rip into the fresh meat, the net tangles around its huge armored body, enough to slow and confuse it while the Ewok hunting party charges out of the underbrush. One such kill provided enough meat to feed an Ewok tree village for days, if one could stomach the pungent and stringy meat.[5]
Bear-wolves were sometimes semidomesticated by the primitive Gorax.[2] A Gorax would find a boar-wolf mother who had gone to ground in a cave to give birth to a litter. The Gorax then smashed open the whelping place, killed the mother, and choosed a boar-wolf to take as a pet.[3] In keeping with its own fondness for bodily ornamentation, the Gorax would strap leather collars and harnesses on his pup, raising it as a hunting companion.[5]
In 3 ABY[6] one deadly[7] domesticated boar-wolf chased Cindel and Mace Towani through the forest after they left the home of Deej Warrick, trapping them inside the hollow of a tree trunk. In the morning, Deej and his three sons Wicket, Widdle, and Weechee went searching for the children and found the boar-wolf lurking in the vicinity. Deej and his two elder sons fought the creature using spears. The boar-wolf was ultimately killed by Wicket, who shot it with a poisoned dart from a blowgun. Upon emerging from their hiding place (from which they witnessed the battle), Mace and Cindel found their father's life monitor attached to the boar-wolf's collar, put there as an ornament by its owner, a giant Gorax who lived in the Forbidden Fortress.[4]
After the Battle of Yavin, Doctor Maldien conducted illegal and highly dangerous bioengineering experiments in a laboratory on Corellia to create very aggressive and intelligent creatures. This included at least one engineered boar-wolf.[8]
Appearances[]

A Gorax with pet boar-wolves
- Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil (and audiobook)
- The Clone Wars: Darth Maul: Shadow Conspiracy (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars: Lethal Alliance (Mentioned only)
- Shadow Games (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
- Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE)
- Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (First appearance)
- The Ewok Adventure
- Fate of the Jedi: Omen (and audiobook)
- Fate of the Jedi: Allies (and audiobook) (Mentioned only)
- Fate of the Jedi: Ascension (and audiobook) (Mentioned only)
Sources[]
- The Essential Guide to Characters
- The Illustrated Star Wars Universe
"Feature Planet: Endor" — Star Wars Kids (1997) 6
- Star Wars Chronicles
- Star Wars Encyclopedia
- The Wildlife of Star Wars: A Field Guide
- The Official Star Wars Fact File 10 END 1-4: The Forest Moon of Endor
- Star Wars Galaxies: The Total Experience: Prima Official Game Guide
- Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Guide: Prima Official Game Guide
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
"Warriors of Endor" — Star Wars Insider 110 (reprinted in Special Edition 2013)
boar-wolf in the Databank (original site is defunct)
Towani, Mace in the Databank (original site is defunct)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The Wildlife of Star Wars: A Field Guide
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3
boar-wolf in the Databank (original site is defunct)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 The Illustrated Star Wars Universe
- ↑ Star Wars: Behind the Magic
- ↑
Towani, Mace in the Databank (original site is defunct)
- ↑
Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "Coronet Murmurs: Clear Out the Zoo" on Corellia