This hulking race of humanoids, native to Ord Mantell, was strongly muscled and massively built. To much of the galaxy, savrips were simply predatory creatures. A savrip was often portrayed as one of the creatures in a dejarik game, further adding to the public opinion of them as unitelligent brutes. However, savrips were fully sentient, but technologically primitive. They were forced into the wilderness when the Old Republic first colonized Ord Mantell, and they chose to maintain a low profile in order to retain their civilization. However, their combative nature and unusual language led to a deeper sense of the savrips' unintelligence, and many were hunted or exported. Thus, very few savrips remained on Ord Mantell by the time of the New Order. The average savrip individual could live to be over 500 years in age, provided that it survived that long. As a species, the Mantellian savrips lacked a formal language, instead communicating through a series of grunts and howls. A few individuals were known to have mastered the Basic language, but chose to speak it only in the company of those it trusted. The bite of a savrip was poisonous to most mammals, although it only induced a brief period of unconsciousness in most humanoid races.

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