Verkles were tusked, brown-and-white-furred critters that lived on the forest moon of Endor. The sentient inhabitants of Endor, the Ewoks, sometimes hunted verkles for their meat or to be used as bait. Shortly before the Battle of Endor, the heroes of the Rebel Alliance Chewbacca, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, C-3PO and R2-D2 fell into the net of an Ewok hunting party, whose trap used a dead verkle as a bait.