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I spent this weekend watching and re-watching the entire Star Wars film library, and as a natural result, I have this obvious question: How old is Chewbacca, anyway? Do Wookies get gray fur when they are old?

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Chewbacca was born 200 BBY (two hundred years before the battle of Yavin)

and would die 25 ABY (after the battle of Yavin) at the opening Yuuzhan Vong War.

Wookiees in their prime tend to resemble the wooded areas they live in (shades of brown, tan or reddish brown), but are known to change colors as they age. There are recessive genes allowing for albino Wookiees, but those are very rare. Very old Wookiees would lose coloration becoming grey or even white hair in their very old age. Wookiees can live to be upwards of 400 years of age.

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The spoilered part may well be superseded by info in the sequel trilogy, of course, which I'd expect would be set around that time. – mh01 May 2 at 19:40
I suspect you may be right, but 25 years is a long time for adventures to take place in before the end... – Thaddeus May 2 at 19:50

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