ANTEATER: There are six varieties of anteaters in the rainforests near Schendi. One type is the great spined anteater. It is about twenty feet long and has heavy clawed forefeet. These claws are generally used to break into termite nests, its primary prey. They are also strong enough to eviscerate a larl. The anteater's four-foot long tongue is coated with an adhesive saliva that it uses to collect them. It also commonly makes a whistling sound.
ARMORED GATCH: This is a marsupial that lives in the rainforests near Schendi
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BOSK:
There are fifteen varieties of bosk, a cattle like animal.
These varieties include the brown bosk, red bosk, and milk bosk.
They are commonly the long-haired wild ox of the plains.
They have a thick, humped neck, a wide head, and tiny red eyes.
They also have the temper of a sleen.
With their two, long, wicked horns they can be quite deadly.
The horns reach out and suddenly curve forward and may even reach
the length of two spears. They are very important animals to the Wagon Peoples and also
many others on Gor. Bosk
meat and milk is available over much of Gor
FREVET: These are small, quick, and friendly mammalian insectivores. They sometimes live in insulae in the cities and eat pests. As they cannot eat through walls, then they do not harm the insulae.
GIANI: tiny cat-sized panther of solitary habits that inhabits the low branches of ground level in rainforests inland of Schendi.
HURT: This is a two-legged, domesticated marsupial that bounds like a kangaroo. It is raised on ranches in several northern cities, herded by sleen and sheared for their white wool. Hurts replace their wool four times a year. The finest wool is sheared in the spring from the bellies of hurts and verr.
KAIILA: There are two varieties of kaiila, the southern kaiila and the desert or sand kaiila. The earlier books stated that kaiila did not exist in the northern hemisphere but this was later changed as the Red Savage in the Barrens have kaiila. The two varieties are very similar. The southern kaiila are used by the Wagon Peoples as mounts. It is a silken, lofty, and graceful animal. It is long necked, smooth gaited, and carnivorous. It is mammalian but doesn't suckle its young. The young are born vicious and can hunt as soon as they struggle to their feet. The mother's instinct is to deliver the young near game. Once a kaiila eats its fill, it won't eat for several days. They are extremely agile and can easily outmaneuver a high tharlarion. They require less food than a tarn. They normally stands about twenty to twenty-two hands at the shoulder. They can cover as much as six hundred pasangs a day. Its head bears two large eyes, one on each side, and the eyes are triply lidded so it can travel in adverse weather like storms. It is most dangerous at these times and often hunts then. Some are colored black. They also have long, triangular tongues, long ears and four rows of fangs. They are trained to avoid the thrown spear. Until it is proficient in this skill, it is not allowed to breed. The sand or desert kailla is used as a mount in the Tahari. They are almost all tawny colored though there are some black ones. This variety does suckle their young. Kailla milk is reddish and has a strong salty taste. This is an omnivorous creature and must feed more frequently than the southern kailla. Its paws are much broader, the digits being webbed with leathery fibers and heavily padded. Its hair is never sheared though it is gathered when it sheds. The most prized hair is found on its belly. Such hairs are commonly used to make cloth. The long outer hairs are coarser and used for ropes and tent cloth.
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Kaila - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Desert Kaila
“ "The kaiila of these men were as tawny as the brown grass of
the prairie, save for that of the man who faced me, whose mount was a
silken, sable black"”--Nomads of Gor, page 14
KAILIAUK: This is a short-trunked, stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains. There are several varieties including the Yellow Kailiauk. The yellow variety are tawny and their haunches are marked in red and brown bars. The males have a trident of horns and usually stand about ten hands at the shoulder. Females only stand about eight. The males weigh about sixteen hundred to two thousand pounds and the females only weigh twelve hundred to sixteen hundred pounds. They are located in the savannahs and plains north and south of the rain forests. Some herds even frequent the forests. The kailiauk of the Barrens is the larger type, standing twenty to twenty-five hands, and weighing up to four thousand pounds. Their numbers in the Barrens are enormous and most have never seen a man or sleen. They have nearly no natural enemies. They are migratory creatures and drift with the seasons, bending northward in the summer and southward in the winter. They generally follow a gigantic oval pattern that crosses the lands of many tribes so a tribe need not leave its own territory to hunt them. The known kailiauk in the Barrens travel in herds that have often been named. Some famous herds include the Boswell, Bento and Hogarthe herds. The four or five best known herds number between two and three million animals. The tremors from any of those herds can be felt fifty pasangs away. There are several smaller herds numbering in the hundreds of thousands, and there are even smaller herds of hundreds to thousands. They are rarely hunted on foot except in snow. They are commonly hunted by kaiilaback. They have four stomachs and eight-valved heart. A red savage can kill one with a single arrow by striking into the intestinal cavity behind the last rib causing large internal bleeding or by a shot behind the left shoulder blade into the heart.
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Kailauk - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Kailauk Barrens - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Kailauk Forest
“short-trunked, stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains. Their color is tawny with haunches marked in red and brown bars. Their wide heads bear a trident horn. They instinctively circle when resting, their females and young protected within. Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-trunked kailiauk, a stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains, tawny, wild, heavy, their haunches marked in red and brown bars, their wide heads bristling with a trident of horns; they had not stood and formed their circle, shes and young within the circle of tridents.” - Nomads of Gor, pg 2
LARL: There are several varieties of this tawny leopard-like beast that is indigenous to the Voltai and other ranges. It is six to eight foot tall at the shoulder. Its head is broad, sometimes more than two feet across, and shaped roughly like a triangle. This makes its head viper-like. Their heads are in constant motion. It has an unobtrusive bony ridge which runs from its four nasal slits to the start of its backbone. The ridge can be penetrated by a spear but an imperfect cast would glance off the bone. It has an eight-valved heart in the center of its breast. They sometimes visit the civilized plains. When it hunts alone, it is silent until it roars preceding its charge. When hunting with others, they emit hunting cries, cries to drive their prey toward a certain direction, into the path of quiet larls of the same pride. A larl prefers to ruin a hunt, even with a number of other quarry, if it means that one might escape. No one had ever tamed a larl. Even when raised from a cub, a larl will go wild at sometime and run away. They are hunted with spears. They usually only attack men when provoked or no other prey is available. Hunters of larls use the Gorean spear. They go in single file. When they see a larl, the first man in the line casts his spear and then drops to the ground, covering himself with his shield. If the larl is not dead, the next man in line will cast his spear. The last spear must stand his ground if the larl is not dead and face it with his sword alone so the others can escape. The First Spear is usually the best spearsman and Last the worst. Its pelt is normally a tawny red or sable black. The black larl is predominately nocturnal and both male and female are maned. The red larl, the more common type, hunts whenever hungry and has no mane. Females of both types are smaller but are quite as aggressive and sometimes even more dangerous particularly when they are hunting for their cubs during the late fall and winter. The white larls have upper canine fangs that are a foot in length and extend down like a saber tooth tiger. There tails are long and tufted at the end. There are also larls in the jungles near Schendi. The heart of the mountain larl allegedly brings great luck, even more luck than that of the sleen. There is even a larl hunter dance that is performed by men. They dance in a file, dancing the stalking of the beast including the confrontation and the kill.
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“a large (7 ft. at shoulder) feline with a broad viper shaped head and
cat-like silted pupils; carnivorous; the females of the species tend to
be smaller than the males. The larl is a predator, clawed and fanged,
quite large, often standing seven feet at the shoulder.I think it would
be fair to say that it is substantially feline; at any rate its grace
and sinuous power remind me of the smaller but similarly fearsome jungle
cats of my old world. The resemblance is, I suppose, due to the mechanics
of convergent evolution, both animals having been shaped by the exigencies
of the chase, the stealth of the approach and the sudden charge, and by
the requirement of the swift and devastating kill. If there is an optimum
configuration for a land predator, I suppose on my old world the palm
must go to the Bengal tiger; but on Gor the prize belongs indisputably
to the mountain larl; and I cannot but believe that the structural similarities
between the two animals, though of different worlds, are more than a matter
of accident. The larl's head is broad, sometimes more than two feet across,
and shaped roughly like a triangle, giving its skull something of the
cast of a viper's save that of course it is furred and the pupils of the
eyes like the cat's and unlike the viper's, can range from knifelike slits
in the broad daylight to dark, inquisitive moons in the night.” - Priest
Kings of Gor, page 18
“predominately nocturnal larl which is sable coated and manned both male
and female. The black larl, which is predominantly nocturnal, is manned,
both male and female. The red larl, which hunts whenever it is hungry,
regardless of the hour, and is the more common variety, possesses no mane.
Females of both varieties tend generally to be slightly smaller than the
males, but are quite as aggressive and sometimes even more dangerous,
particularly in the late fall and winter of the year when they are likely
to be hunting for their cubs.” - Priest Kings of Gor, page 18
"On the jungle floor, as well, are found jungle larls and jungle panthers, of diverse kinds, and many smaller catlike predators. These, on the whole, however, avoid men. They are less dangerous in the rain forest, generally, than in the northern latitudes. I do not know why this should be the case. Perhaps it is because in the rain forest food is usually plentiful for them, and, thus, there is little temptation for them to transgress the boundaries of their customary prey categories. They will, however, upon occasion, particularly if provoked or challenged, attack with dispatch..." - Explorers of Gor, 32:312
LART, snow: This is a four-legged mammal whose winter fur is snowy white. It has two stomachs and the food in its second stomach can be held almost indefinitely. It hunts in the sun, eating bird's eggs and leems. It is about ten inches high and weighs eight to twelve pounds. A good pelt could sell in Ar for maybe half a silver tarsk
LEEM: A small (5 to 10 ounces) artic rodent hunted by the Red Hunters for its pelt. It is said to hibernate in the winter and its summer coat is described as brown.
"...The
hunter drew forth from the bundle of furs two tiny pelts of the leem.
These were brown, the summer coats of the animals".--Beasts
of Gor, 3:74-75
MONKEYS: Several varieties of monkeys lives in the rainforest such as the Guernon monkeys , tarsiers and the nocturnal jit monkeys.
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Monkey Jit - - - - - - - - - - - - -Monkey Guernan
PANTHER: There are several varieties of these cats. They include jungle panthers, yellow panthers, and forest panthers. The forest panther is a proud beast that does not care to be distracted when it is hunting. They hunt largely at night but are not invariably nocturnal. They will hunt when hungry or irritable. Panthers will usually only attack men if they are provoked or if no other prey is available. Panthers are able to climb but they normally take a hunting scent from the ground.
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"As
I ran through the darkness I suddenly saw, before me, some fifty or sixty
yards away, four pairs of blazing eyes, a pride of forest panthers. I
pretended not to see them and, heart pounding, turned to one side, walking
through the trees. At this time, at night, I knew they would be hunting.
Our eyes had not met. I had the strange feeling that they had seen me,
and knew that I had seen them, as I had seen them, and sensed that they
had seen me. But our eyes had not directly met. We had not, so to speak,
signaled to one another that we were aware of one another. The forest
panther is a proud beast, but, too, he does not care to be distracted
in his hunting...."-
Captive of Gor, 8:181
"... in others there raged the dreadful,
tawny, barred panthers of the northern forests."--Captive
of Gor, 12:210
"...He had worn at his loins the pelts
of the yellow panther..."--Explorers of
Gor, 18:236
PORCUPINE: A long tailed variety is mentioned in Explorers of Gor as part of the jungle fauna.
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"...Here, too, may be found snakes and monkeys, gliding urts, leaf urts, squirrels, climbing, long-tailed porcupines, lizards, sloths, and the usual varieties of insects, ants, centipedes, scorpions, beetles and flies, and so on..." ---Explorers of Gor, 32:311
QUALA: This is a small, three-toed mammal. It is dun colored with a stiff brushy mane of black hair. It travels in a scampering flock. The plural form for them is qualae.
SLEE: a rodent of the jungles.
"In the lower branches of the "ground zone" may be found, also, small animals, such as tarsiers, nocturnal jit monkeys, black squirrels, four-toed leaf urts, jungle varts and the prowling, solitary giani, tiny, cat-sized panthers, not dangerous to man... On the floor itself are also found several varieties of animal life, in particular marsupials, such as the armored gatch, and rodents, such as slees and ground urts." - Explorers of Gor, 32:313
SLEEN: There are several varieties of this six-legged, long bodied carnivorous mammal. It is almost like a snake. Some can get as big as twenty feet long and up to twelve to fourteen hundred pounds. They have two rows of teeth in a wide and triangular head. Their paws have six claws. They smell like a weasel or ferret but only stronger. Sleens are very dirty animals. It is an efficient, tireless, almost infallible hunter. It is capable of pursuing a scent, days old, for hundreds of pasangs.
Sleens in the wild are burrowing and nocturnal. They do not climb. Their preferred prey is the tabuk. They mate once a year in the spring. Their mating ritual is interesting. If a female has never mated before, she will flee and fight a male sleen. The male must finally take her by the throat and, belly to belly, mate with her. After mating once, a female never needs to be forced again. The mating season is usually confined to the spring. Their gestation period is six months and there are usually four young born.
The young are commonly white furred and darken by the next spring. Young sleen are about eight feet long and adults are nineteen to twenty feet long. A young sleen's attack is noisy, a whistling rush, a clumsy squealing charge. An adult sleen sometimes makes kills swiftly and silently. There is also a hunting frenzy underwent by some sleen that is a function in part of the secretions of certain glands. Most domestic sleen are bred as it is hard to tame a wild one and a wild sleen could revert. If young sleen are taken from their mother within the first two months of their life, there is a good chance they can be tamed.
It may still revert though, especially in the spring, during the mating period. The specific verbal signals between a master and his trained sleen are private. Verbality is important as a sleen on the hunt may not look at his master. Sleen are used for herding verr and bosk, tracking tabuk and slaves, guarding and patrolling, and many other activities. In Thentis, sleen sniff out the smuggling of black wine beans. Assassins even sometimes use them. The Gray sleen is the best tracker.
The forest sleen is large, and commonly either brown or black. Prairie sleen are smaller than forest sleen, usually only seven feet in length. They are domesticated as herd sleen and used as shepherds and sentries by the Wagon People. Aquatic sleen, or sea sleens, are common in the north. There are four varieties of sea sleen in the north including the black sleen, brown sleen, tusked sleen, and flat-nosed sleen. Many migrate though some remain largely dormant in the winter.
Their principal prey are parsits and they follow their migrations. A medium-sized adult sea sleen is about eight feet long and weighs 300 to 400 pounds. There is a white snow sleen in the north as well. Sleen hunters, for luck when they kill one, eat its heart. The heart of the mountain larl brings the most luck. There are no sleen in the rainforests. The sleen is considered Gor's most perfect hunter.
“It was indeed a young sleen, not more than eight feet long, and it lacked
the patience of an older animal. Its attack, if it should detect my presence,
would be noisy, a whistling rush, a clumsy squealing charge. It glided
away into the darkness, perhaps not fully convinced that it was not alone,
a young animal ready to neglect and overlook those slight traces that
can spell the difference between death and survival in Gor’s brutal and
predatory world.” --Outlaw of Gor page 34 -35
“long sleek mammal with flippers and six legs and double fanged
jaws can weigh as much as 1000 pounds.. and as much as 20 feet in length
hunted by the Red Hunters for food and pelt.” Beasts of Gor, page 285
“one of the 4 main types of sea sleen found in the polar north.”
- Beasts of Gor, page 38
“rare broader headed more dangerous variety of sea sleen found
in the Polar North.” - Beasts of Gor, page 283
“the hunting sleen is a hunter of men. It is 20 feet in length and weighs eleven hundred pounds. This domesticated forest sleen is double fanged and six-footed. It's tail tends to switch back and forth, getting rigid, as it hunts, it's ears flatten against it's head just prior to it's final 'charge' attack on it's prey.”- Beasts of Gor, pages 12-13
Sleen, Forest
Usually brown or black in color, and measure up
to 20 feet in length. They are seen used as 'hunting sleen' for the tracking
of game or men.
I crouched down. The animal had been released. Its head was now fully
through the door. Its head was wide and triangular. Suddenly the eyes
took the light of the lamp and blazed. And then, the head moving, its
eyes no longer reflected The light. It no longer faced the light. Rather
it was watching me.
The animal was some twenty feet in length, some eleven hundred pounds
in weight, a forest sleen, domesticated. It was double fanged and six-legged.
It crouched down and inched forward. Its belly fur must have touched the
tiles. It wore a leather sleen collar but there was no leash on the leash
loop.
I had thought it was trained to hunt tabuk with archers, but it clearly
was not tabuk it hunted now.
I knew the look of a hunting sleen. It was a hunter of men....
... The beast watched me closely. For the first time it snarled, menacingly.
Then the tail stopped lashing, and became almost rigid. Then the ears
lay back against its head.
It charged, scratching and scrambling, slipping suddenly, on the tiles.
The girl screamed. The cast fur, capelike, shielding me, enveloped the
leaping animal. I leaped to the couch, and rolled over it, and bounded
to my feet. I heard the beast snarling and squealing, casting aside the
fur with an angry shaking of its body and head. Then it stood, enraged,
the fur torn beneath its paws, snarling and hissing. It looked up at me.
I stood now upon the couch, the ax of Torvaldsland in my hand.
I laughed, the laugh of a warrior.
"Come my friend," I called to it. "let us engage."
It was a truly brave and noble beast. Those who scorn the sleen I think
do not know him. Kurii respect the sleen, and that says much for the sleen,
for its courage, its ferocity and its indomitable tenacity.
---Beasts of Gor, 1:12-13
Sleen,
Grey
Said to be the best tracker on Gor, it is described as 14-15 feet long
and as its name indicates, grey in color.
"Keep your legs apart," he said. "It is a gray sleen. I
raised it from a whelp. Ah, greetings, Borko! How are you, old fellow!"
I would have screamed and reared up, but I was thrust back, helpless,
half strangled, scarcely able to utter a sound, to the step. So our masters
can control us by our collars. To my terror, then, pushing over my body,
to thrust its great jaws and head, so large I could scarcely have put
my arms around them, into the hands and arms of my master, was an incredible
beast. It had an extremely agile, active, sinuous body, as thick as a
drum, and perhaps fourteen or fifteen feet long. It might have weighed
a thousand pounds. Its broad head was triangular, almost viperlike, but
it was furred. This thing was a mammal, or mammalian. Its eyes now had
pupils like slits, like those of a cat in sunlight. So quickly then might
its adaptive mechanisms have functioned. About its muzzle were gray hairs,
grayer than the silvered gray of its fur. It had six legs.
"Good lad!" said my master, roughly fondling that great, fierce
head.
"We have been through much together, Borko and I," said my master.
"He has even, twice, saved my life. Once when I was struck, unexpectedly,
by one foolishly thought to be a friend, the origin of this scar,"
he said, indicating good-humoredly the hideous, jagged tissue at the left
side of his face, "I told Borko to hunt. The fellow did not escape.
Borko brought part of him back to me, in his jaws."
... "Borko," he said, "is a seasoned hunting sleen. Even
to strangers he would bring a hundred times what you would bring in the
market."
... "Learn slave," he said. "Learn slave."
I then began to whimper. "Hold still," said my master.
The beast then began to push its nose and muzzle about me, thrusting it
here and there, about me. I now understood why I had been spread as I
had, on the steps.
"The sleen," he said, "and especially the gray sleen, is
Gor's finest tracker. It is a relentless, tenacious tracker. It can follow
a scent that is weeks old, for a thousand pasangs."
I whimpered, the beast's snout thrust between my thighs, sniffing.
"Please, Master," I whimpered.
I felt it nuzzling then at my waist and breasts. It was learning me.
"Do you know what the sleen hunts?" he asked.
"No, Master," I whimpered.
"In the wild it commonly hunts tabuk and wild tarsk," he said,
"but it is an intelligent beast, and it can be trained to hunt anything."
"Yes, Master," I whimpered.
He held back my right arm, further, exposing more the armpit.
"Do you know what Borko is trained to hunt?" he asked.
"No, Master," I said.
I felt the snout of the beast then poking about my throat and under my
chin, to the side, and then at the side of my neck. My maser then held
my left arm further, exposing the armpit to the beast.
"It is trained to hunt men, and slaves," he said.
---Dancer of Gor, 10:160-161
Sleen,
Miniature
A miniature version of the sleen, domesticated and said to be sometimes
kept as a pet. It is also mentioned as used in the control of urt infestation
of Sa-Tarna sheds.
..."Don't you really think so? What self-respecting rapist or slaver
would be abroad at this hour? What would he expect to find? A miniature
domestic sleen among the garbage cans?..." ---Mercenaries
of Gor, 26:407
...To be sure, at that time, I did not know about the miniature, silken
sleen that are sometimes kept as sinuous pets.... ---Dancer
of Gor, 11:167
Sleen, Prairie
The somewhat smaller cousin of
the forest sleen, tawny colored, domesticated by the Wagon People to herd
cattle and guard camp.
"...
farther to one side I saw a pair of prairie sleen, smaller than the forest
sleen but quite as unpredictable and vicious, each about seven feet in
length, furred, six-legged, mammalian, moving in their undulating gait
with their viper's heads moving from side to side, continually testing
the wind ..." ---Nomads of Gor, 1:2
"If I were found on the plains near the
camps or the bosk herds I knew I would be scented out and slain by the
domesticated, nocturnal herd sleen, used as shepherds and sentinels by
the Wagon Peoples, released from their cages with the falling of darkness.
These animals, trained prairie sleen, move rapidly and silently, attacking
upon no other provocation than trespass on what they have decided is their
territory. They respond only to the voice of their master, and when he
is killed or dies, his animals are slain and eaten." ---Nomads
of Gor, 1:9
Sleen,
Snow
White furred sleen of the Northern areas.
SLOTH - QUALA:
"Here,
too, may be found snakes and monkeys, gliding urts, leaf urts, squirrels,
climbing, long-tailed porcupines, lizards, sloths, and the usual varieties
of insects, ants, centipedes, scorpions, beetles and flies, and so on...."--Explorers
of Gor, 32:311
"...In the lower branches of the "ground zone" may be found,
also, small animals, such as tarsiers, nocturnal jit monkeys, black squirrels,
four-toed leaf urts, jungle varts and the prowling, solitary giani, tiny,
cat-sized panthers, not dangerous to man...."---Explorers of Gor,
32:312
TABUK: There are several varieties
of this one horned, yellow antelope.
The common type frequents Ka-la-na thickets. It is small, graceful and eats berries and salt.
Young tabuk rarely leave the thickets.
Their hide is a mottled yellow and brown.
Northern tabuk are massive, tawny, and swift.
Many stand ten hands at the shoulder.
Northern tabuk hairs are hollow and give its fur an excellent insulative
quality. Both types have
a single horn of ivory, a deadly weapon.
It is a yard or so long and two and a half inches at the base.
The herd of Tancred is a gigantic herd of northern tabuk, one of
several. This herd winters
in the rims of the northern forests, south and east of Torvaldsland. In the springtime, short-haired and hungry, they migrate northward,
following the shore of Thassa until they reach the tundra of the polar
basin for their summer grazing.
When winter comes, long-haired and fat, they return south. The
prairie tabuk reside in the Barrens.
They are tawny, single-horned, and travel in herds. Some varieties
lie down when sensing danger. They
can attain short-term speeds of eighty to ninety pasangs an Ahn.
Their evasive leaps can cover thirty to forty feet in length and
heights of ten to fifteen feet.
There are twenty varieties of tabuk in the rainforests.
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"...On
the floor itself are also found several varieties of animal life, in particular
marsupials, such as the armored gatch, and rodents, such as slees and
ground urts. Several varieties of tarsk, large and small, also inhabit
this zone. More than six varieties of anteater are also found here, and
more than twenty kinds of small, fleet, single-horned tabuk..."
---Explorers of Gor, 32:312
“"They were northern tabuk, massive, tawny and swift; many of them
ten hands at the shoulder, a quite different animal from the small, yellow-pelted
antelope-like quadruped of the south. On the other hand, they too were
distinguished by the single horn of the tabuk. On these animals, however,
that object, in swirling ivory, was often, at its base, some two and one
half inches in diameter, and better than a yard in length. A charging
tabuk, because of the swiftness of its reflexes, is quite a dangerous
animal."” --Beasts of Gor, page 152
“a kind of antelope, yellow in color with a single horn found
in many areas’s of Gor. It travels in fleet footed herds and haunts the
ka-la-na thickets of the planet. Men use its meat as food. It is a favorite
prey of Tarns. The tabuk is the most common Gorean antelope, a small graceful
animal, one-horned and yellow, that haunts the Ka-la-na thickets of the
planet and occasionally ventures daintily into its meadows in search of
berries and salt. It is also one of the favorite kills of a tarn.” - Outlaw
of Gor, page 126
“massive, tawny and swift is much larger than its smaller southern
variety; standing ten hands at the shoulders. They have a single spiraling
ivory horn, which at its base can be 2 1/2 inches in diameter and over
a yard in length. The Red Hunters are tied to the tabuk for sustenance
and the devices of daily living much like the Wagon Peoples and the bosk,
and the Red Savages and the kailiauk.” - Beasts of Gor page 152
“described as tawny and gazelle-like with a single horn, it responds to threat by scurrying away or lying down. Presumably this response is useful because of the high grass of the Barrens as most predators depend on vision to detect and locate its prey.” - Blood Brothers of Gor, page 316
TARSK: This is a six-tusked wild boar, with a bristly mane running down its spine. There is a giant tarsk that stands ten hands at the shoulder. There are several varieties of tarks in the rainforests, both large and small. They can be domesticated and the rencers keep some. They are best hunted from the back of kaiila with lances and the giant tarsk is often hunted on tarnback with lances. Tarsk meat tends to be salty.
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“"I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of
round, flat loaves, fresh and hot; my mouth watered for a tabuk steak
or, perhaps, if I were lucky, a slice of roast tarsk, the formidable six-tusked
wild boar of Gor's temperate forests."” --Outlaw of Gor, page 76
“fat, grunting, shaggy-maned, hoofed, flat-snorted, rooting, short-legged
quadruped, having a bristly mane which runs down its spine to the base
of the tail. In the wild, it is viciously aggressive. A common source
of meat, and is often roasted whole. Market of Semris is famed for it's
tarsk markets. Still later that afternoon some groups of small, fat, fronting,
bristly, bridled, shaggy-maned, hoofed, flat-snouted, rooting animals
had been herded in, also with pointed sticks, and they, too, had been
guided into identical cages. We had looked out of our cage, our fingers
hooked in the mesh, to the other cages, some of them with girls in them,
some with the fat, flat-snouted, grunting, short-legged, bridled quadrupeds.
"Those are tarsks," said one of the Gorean girls.” - Dancer
of Gor, page 108
URT: There are several varieties of this common rodent. It is usually fat, sleek and white. It has three rows of needlelike teeth, tusks that curve from its jaw, and two horns that protrude over its eyes. It also has a long hairless tail. Most are tiny enough to hold in palm of your hand but some can get as big as wolves or ponies. Certain varieties migrate twice a year though it is only dangerous if you are in the middle of their path. In the rainforests there are gliding, ground, leaf and tree urts. The canal urt is web footed and can be found in Port Kar's canals. There are also brush urts and forest urts. Some large urts are domesticated and bred for attacking and killing. Most urts attack in a pack and are messy and noisy when attacking.
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“It was a giant urt, fat, sleek and white; it bared it three rows of needlelike
white teeth at me and squealed in anger; two horns, tusks like flat crescents
curved from its jaw; another two horns, similar to the first, modifications
of the bony tissue forming the upper ridge of the eyes socket, protruded
over those gleaming eyes that seemed to feast themselves upon me, as it
waiting the permission of the keeper to hurl itself on its feeding trough.
Its fat body trembled with anticipation. The whip cracked again, and another
command was uttered, and the animal; its long hairless tail lashing in
frustration, slunk into another tunnel.”
---Outlaw of Gor. page85-86
“rapid moving water mammal living along canals; abundant in Port
Kar, where they are hunted to decrease the population. Behind the man,
in the stern, lay the bloody, white-furred bodies of two canal urts. One
would have weight about sixty pounds, and the other, I speculate, about
seventy-five or eighty pounds.” - Savages of Gor, page 67
“fat, sleek, and white, it has 3 rows of needle-like white teeth and 4
horns. Large enough to drag a man in its jaws. It was a giant urt, fat,
sleek and white; it bared its three rows of needlelike white teeth at
me and sealed in anger; two horns, tusks like flat crescents curved from
its jaw; another two horns, similar to the first, modifications of the
body tissue forming the upper ridge of the eye socket, protruded over
those gleaming eyes that seemed to feast themselves upon me, as if waiting
the permission of the keeper to hurl itself on its feeding trough. Its
fat body trembled with anticipation. The whip cracked again, and another
command was uttered, and the animal, its long hairless tail lashing in
frustration, slunk into another tunnel.” - Outlaw of Gor, page 86
VART: These are blind, batlike flying rodents. They can grow to the size of a small dog. They can strip a carcass in minutes. Some are rabid and they hang upside down like bats. There are jungle varts in the rainforests. Varts on Tyros are trained as weapons
“Perhaps most I dreaded those nights filled with the shrieks of the vart
pack, a blind, batlike swarm of flying rodents, each the size of a small
dog, They could strip a carcass in a matter of minutes, each carrying
back some fluttering ribbon of flesh to the recesses of whatever dark
cave the swarm had chosen for its home. Moreover, some vart packs were
rabid.” - Outlaw of Gor, page 26
“carnivorous animals that rest clinging upside down on branches. I could,
however, recognize a row of brown varts, clinging upside down like large
matted fists of teeth and fur and leather on the heavy, bare, scarred
branch in their case. I saw bones, perhaps human bones, in the bottom
of their case.” - Priest Kings of Gor, page 191
VERR: This is a mountain goat, indigenous to the Voltai Mountains. They are long-haired, spiral horned, and ill-tempered. There is a small, long-haired verr that is smaller and less belligerent than the wild verr. Some are domesticated and they are a source of wool and milk. The finest wool is sheared in the spring from the bellies of the hurt and verr.
“"I passed fields that were burning, and burning huts of peasants,
the smoking shells of Sa-Tarna granaries, the shattered, slatted coops
for vulos, the broken walls of keeps for the small, long-haired domestic
verr, less belligerent and sizable than the wild verr of the Voltai ranges."”
--Nomads of Gor, page 10
“a mountain goat indigenous to the Voltai Mountains; wild, agile,
ill-tempered with long hair and spiraling horns; source of a form of wool;
its milk is potable as well as being used for cheese. Its meat is sometimes
eaten by men. The verr was a mountain goat indigenous to the Voltai. It
was a wild, agile, ill-tempered beast, long-haired and spiral-horned.
Among the Voltai crags it would be worth one's life to come within twenty
yards of one.” - Priest-Kings of Gor, page 63
ZEDER: This is a small, sleen-like carnivore from the rainforests. It frequents the Ua River and its tributaries. It grows to two feet and weighs eight to ten pounds. It is diurnal, can swim well, and builds a stick and mud nest in tree branches where it sleeps at night
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