Leaf-tail

The leaf-tail was a species of non-sentient winged rodent found on the planet Dagobah. Leaf-tails were about thirty centimeters in length with a wingspan of roughly the same width. They possessed a membrane on the end of their tail that resembled the leaf of a gnarltree, giving the leaf-tail its name and allowing the rodents to camouflage themselves and avoid predators.

Leaf-tails were flying omnivores, and although they preferred berries, they could sustain themselves on insects and other smaller rodents. Individual leaf-tails posed no threat to sentients, but should an individual come across a leaf-tail nest, dozens of the rodents could attack in a swarm using their teeth. During the Galactic Civil War, the tiny handful of smugglers who occasionally traveled to Dagobah in order to capture jubba birds told tales of leaf-tails causing near catastrophic damage to starships by chewing through cabling.

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