| abstract | - Rhonkers are bulky quadrupeds with hooved feet and a long, dinosauroid tail which ends in a spiked blade. They are pachiderm-like, with tough skin covering their backs and tails. Like the Yautja Hounds, they also have several fleshy protusions on the anterior part of their backs, which are used both for hearing and heat-dissipation. These structures are homologous to the Yautja's so-called "dreadlocks". Rhonkers are omnivorous foragers, feeding on all sorts of roots, succulent plants, fungi, land algae, invertebrates and small burrowing vertebrates. Their nostrils are located on their foreheads. Rhonkers have excellent smelling but poor eyesight. Like the humanoid Yautja, Rhonkers have four bony mandibles surrounding the snout. Their mandibles, however, are longer, stronger and have four joints. The lower pair is located below the chin and linked together by a web of tissue. The upper pair runs by each side of the snout and it far more mobile, used mainly for digging the earth in search for roots and invertebrates, to shed the bark of trees looking for grubby larvae, and to destroy nests of mneke (small eusocial bugs similar in appearance to Earth's velvet worms). The tail blade is used to tear up vegetation, take trees down and fight other beasts.
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