Hoth hog

Hoth hog
Physical characteristics
Distinctions	Powerful, clawed feet
Sociocultural characteristics
Habitat	Hoth
Diet	Omnivore

"Tauntauns feed on a variety of sources, including Hoth hogs, ice scrabblers, ice plants, and lichen."

―From the journal of Ardis San Tekka

Hoth hogs were small, omnivorous relatives of the ice scrabbler that lived on the ice planet Hoth. They used their tongues to locate thermal vents or heated caves when scavenging in family units and then dug down to find their food using powerful clawed feet. Hoth hogs were eaten by members of the tauntaun species.

Biology and apperance

Hoth hogs were a type of small, omnivorous creature that was able to develop on the ice planet Hoth due to the presence of slow-growing vegetable matter in the world's deep ice caves that had been nourished by ancient volcanic eruptions. The plants provided a substantial food source for the hogs, which were a relative of the smaller ice scrabblers also found on the world. Hoth hogs had heat-sensitive tongues and powerful, clawed feet.

Behavior

Hoth hogs lived in small family groups that scavenged together, finding thermal vents or heated caves by flicking their tongue out and "tasting" the air for mintue traces of heat to follow. Once the foodsource had been located, the Hoth hogs would dig down to it using their feet. The tauntaun species also found on Hoth fed on both Hoth hogs and ice scrabblers as well as plants and lichen.

History

Galactic Society of Creature Enthusiasts Director of Creature Cartography Ardis San Tekka mentioned Hoth hogs in an entry on tauntauns in her journal at some point after the Battle of Exegol in 35 ABY.

Behind the scenes

Hoth hogs appeared in Disney Infinity 3.0.

In the current Star Wars canon, Hoth hogs first appeared in 2015 in the Rise Against the Empire Play Set of the non-canon video game Disney Infinity 3.0. The set depicted the hogs as dark blue quadrupeds with black spots, white spines, and pink snouts. The creatures were then canonically mentioned for the first time in Star Wars Workbook: 4th Grade Reading and Writing, written by Bridget Heos and Megan Butler and published in 2017 as part of the Star Wars Workbooks series.

Hoth hogs originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where they first appeared in the LucasArts video game Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, which was released on June 1, 1993. The game did not identify the creatures, but they were named in Super Empire Strikes Back Official Game Secrets in November later that year.

Appearances

• Disney Infinity 3.0 (First appearance)

Sources

• Star Wars Workbook: 4th Grade Reading and Writing
• "Hoth and Other Planets in the Outer Rim" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
• Star Wars Bestiary, Vol. 1: Creatures of the Galaxy