>>48236782One of the defining traits of mammalian species was nursing their newborn offspring[4] with milk secreted by their mammary glands.[5] Among mammals that had breasts, the number varied with species, but two was common.[4]
Askajian females gave birth to sets of up to six children, called cubs, and nursed them with their six breasts[4] that were grouped in pairs down their torso.[6] Yarna d'al' Gargan was an Askajian who gave birth to four cublings, one of whom was killed when slavers captured her family. The surviving cublings were kept in Jabba Desilijic Tiure's Mos Eisley town house while she was forced[7] to dance for the crime lord at his palace.[6] Though many beings considered her beautiful,[8] Jabba made her wear wart-like makeup, and his audiences jeered and laughed when she danced.[7] After Jabba's death,[6] she escaped his palace and used gems she had secretly saved and then hidden between her lowest set of breasts to buy back her cublings.[7] Working as a trader alongside the Geranite hunter Doallyn, she sometimes danced by choice to earn extra credits. When she performed the Dance of the Seventy Violet Veils at the wedding of Leia Organa and Han Solo, she was spotted by an exotic lingerie designer who hired her to model his extravagantly jeweled brassieres.[9]
Other sentient species whose females had more than two breasts included Gran, who had three[10] grouped in a row,[11] and Wookiees, who had six; accounts differ as to whether Wookiees nursed and birthed litters of cubs[12] or only one at a time.[13] The number of breasts was variable among sows of the porcine Gamorrean species. Matron Kufbrug of the Bolgoink clan had eight[14] and Matron Bullyak of the Gakfedd tribe had six,[15] but other sows had only one set of two breasts.[16] Their breasts were grouped in pairs with additional sets below the others. Having a large body capable of supporting multiple parasitic bloodsuckers called morrts was a status symbol amongst Gamorreans; thus, their presence was welcomed on the bosoms of Ugmush, Kufbrug,[14] and Bullyak.[15]
It was common for females to nurse their young at their breasts in Human cultures. On Dathomir, the warrior-women of the Singing Mountain Clan breastfed their children in settings that included solemn councils of war.[17] In the Skywalker and Solo families, Leia Organa Solo nursed her twins, Jaina and Jacen Solo.[1]
