worrt

• Appeared in:
  
  I
  II
  III
  IV
  V
  VI
  CW

• Size:
  0.5 - 1.5 meters tall

• Diet:
  Omnivore

• 

From the Movies

Found lurking in the rocks outside of Jabba's palace on Tatooine is this variety of warty roadside scavenger. The dimwitted creature has a lightning-fast tongue, which it uses to catch smaller prey.

From the Expanded Universe

Native to Tatooine, worrts are blindingly stupid and will attack anything that appears remotely edible -- metal, poisonous plants, and large rocks have been found in the guts of dead worrts. Though they have been known to pester human-sized targets, they generally avoid prey larger than themselves. Worrts can be domesticated as pest-catchers, but their stupidity makes them difficult to train. Jabba the Hutt was believed to have maintained several worrts as pets, which explains the unusual concentration of the creatures near his palace.

Behind the Scenes

The worrt was a puppet, like many of the creatures seen at Jabba's palace in Return of the Jedi. Its production nickname is simply "road creature."