Didelum rodent

Didelum rodents were a type of rodent with prehensile tails that played dead when approached by predators. In 228 BBY, after the young Hutt Churo crashed on the planet Palagosal, he encountered the crew of the Galactic Republic yacht Redemption, who he had accidentally shot down while attempting to help them evade members of the Nihil pirates. Upon realizing that the crew included Jedi, who the Hutts had previously come into conflict with, Churo thought about didelum rodents and plopped on the ground to play dead like one. The Jedi youngling Tep Tep found him and asked if he was playing dead. Churo began to respond that he was doing so like a didelum rodent, but Tep Tep finished his explanation by exclaiming the rodent's name.

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