Elephant

An elephant was said to be a creature as large as a bantha, though without the bantha's tremendous looped horns.^[1] The shape of an elephant's head was similar to that of a Firespray-31-class patrol and attack craft.^[2] The term "white elephant" was sometimes used to describe an unwanted ornament.^[3] Falumpasets were compared to elephants.^[4]

The Pryss-creatures of Verig were large, elephantine beasts.^[5]

Behind the scenes

An elephant never appears in any canonical source, though is often mentioned when describing other things in the galaxy, such as a bantha. A elephant did make an Easter egg appearance in LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars, in the level "Liberty on Ryloth"^[6], based on the episode "Liberty on Ryloth."^[7]

Real elephants were significant in the production of the Star Wars films. In A New Hope, an Asian elephant named Mardji played the bantha.^[8] The movements of the AT-ATs seen in The Empire Strikes Back were based on footage of Mardji walking.^[9]

Elephants were also used in the sound design of the films. The sound of a TIE/LN starfighter's engines were the result of mixing cars streaking past and the trumpeting cry of an elephant.^[10]

For The Phantom Menace, the design characteristics of the Multi-Troop Transport were based on a massive elephant.^[11]