A jerba was a shaggy quadruped found on the desert planet Tatooine.
A jerba's head (right) was featured among Jabba's trophies.
A subculture of jerba breeders existed in the galaxy, and the creatures were kept for their milk or for their meat. Some were also ridden. Han Solo once smuggled a pair of mated jerbas off Tatooine for a private seller, although he considered the beasts to be ugly. Tethers for jerbas and banthas were kept outside Tosche Station in Anchorhead, and wary jerbas were known to frequent the exterior of the building. Jabba Desilijic Tiure kept the trophy head of a jerba mounted on the wall of his palace on Tatooine, along with other hunting trophies including the head of a tauntaun. During the era of the New Republic, Senator Grelka Sorka owned a prize show-jerba which was taken hostage to ensure the politician's vote against launching an attack against the Imperial remnant at Jakku. The hide of a jerba could be used to make leather. Leia Organa sometimes wore boots made of jerba leather.
A jerba first appeared in the 1977 original trilogy film, Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.
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