Many large and dangerous predators prowl and swim through the swamps of Dagobah. The astromech droid R2-D2 encountered one of them when Luke Skywalker visited that world after the rebel rout at Hoth. An olive green creature, seen only as a section of leathery hide intermittently cresting muddy water, actually attempted to devour the droid. The curvature of the visible parts of the beast suggest that it is at least a few metres thick and probably significantly longer than its width. Apparently the animal disdained the taste and texture of the astromech, and it powerfully spat the droid high into the air to crash in the thickets. The shape of the animal's back is bilaterally symmetric about its direction of motion and particular features are suggestive of a vertebrate body plan.
The water beast which swallowed R2-D2. In the first image a pair of human divers, obviously members of a foolhardy doomed zoological expedition, examine the creature's back. The second photograph shows a section of hide which has somehow been removed from an unfortunate specimen.
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