Falumpaset/Legends

The falumpaset (plural: falumpaset or falumpasets) was a large mammal native to the planet Naboo.
==Behavior==
They roamed the plains, forests and swamps of the planet (their long, stilt-like legs being excellent for wading) in large herds (as well as in family groups containing one adult bull and four to seven adult cows and their young), and their distinctive bellowing calls could be heard for kilometers around. Easily domesticated, falumpasets were popular mounts all over the galaxy. They were, however, known for their stubborn and uncooperative temperament. Wild falumpaset had long shaggy fetlocks to protect against nipping nyorks, etc.The Wildlife of Star Wars: A Field Guide They were excellent swimmers. Bigger enemies included sando aqua monsters breaching the surface of the swamps from the abyssal ocean beneath.
The terazod, the falumpaset, and the fambaa represented three different within the Gungan Swamps: they were three plant-eaters that existed in the same territory but had different feeding strategies. In the case of the falumpaset, when feeding underwater, it could only reach midlevel crustaceans and plants.
==Biology and appearance==
Falumpasets were large mammals found in Naboo's swamps. They were omnivorous creatures, and ate both plants and crustaceans.
A breed of falumpaset was also native to the jungle world of Onderon. They were gray in color and had dark strips across their back.
==History==
Two specially trained Gungan handlers were required to properly control a falumpaset. According to Gungan fables, such handlers aren't allowed to form close relationships with other beings lest the stubborn falumpasets grow jealous and even more ornery.
Because of their great strength, the Gungans used them to pull their Battle Wagons at the Battle of Grassy Plains. In the following victory parade, Boss Rugor Nass rode a falumpaset through the streets of Theed.
==Behind the scenes==
According to information Star Wars Insider got from art designer Terryl Whitlatch, the "notoriously stubborn" falumpaset:
"[May be easily confused with] the fambaa...But the falumpaset is much smaller and mammalian in appearance. When Jar Jar accidentally opens the back gate of a battle wagon and releases a payload of energy balls, the creature pulling the wagon is a falumpaset. 'The falumpaset is like a rhinoceros,' says Whitlach. 'A giant extinct rhinoceros, but without horns. I experimented with legs and like the look of a Clydesdale horse, so the falumpaset has the stocky sturdy legs of a Clydesdale.' Falumpasets don't look much like elephants, but behaviorally they are close kin. Elephants are so intelligent that they have shown evidence of tool-using and sophisticated communication...Falumpasets are as intelligent as elephants, which is both a blessing and a curse to their Gungan trainers, since the creatures are notoriously stubborn."
The falumpaset's coloring in was inspired by that of an Appaloosa horse.
The falumpaset, along with pikobis and fambaas, are identified as also being a native animal to the planet Onderon in the trivia slideshow for the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "A War on Two Fronts."
==Appearances==
*Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
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*Star Wars: Episode I Jedi Power Battles
*Star Wars Episode I: The Gungan Frontier
* Star Wars: Republic: The New Face of War
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*Empire 21
*Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine
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===Non-canon appearances===
*LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game
*LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
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Category:Creatures of Naboo
Category:Creatures of Onderon
Category:Creatures of unspecified diet
Category:Domesticated creatures
Category:Grassland and plains creatures
Category:Jungle and forest creatures
Category:Mammals
Category:Species of undefined sentience
Category:Species used by the Gungan military
Category:Swamp creatures