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Mammals of Gor
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Anteater
Over six varieties inhabit the Schendi rainforests. The great spined anteater grows to 20 ft in length and feeds on white ants or termites using their mighty claws to break apart their towering nests of toughened clay, then darting it's 4 foot saliva coated tongue, drawing thousands into it's narrow tube-like mouth.
“A great spined anteater, more than twenty feet in length, shuffled about the edges of the camp. We saw its long, thin tongue dart in and out of its mouth.”
Explorers of Gor page 29
“More than six varieties of anteater are also found here, and more than twenty kinds of small, fleet, single-horned tabuk.”
Explorers of Gor page 312
Armored Gatch
A marsupial mammal found in the Schendi rainforests
“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 page 312
Bosk
A large shambling animal, its neck is thick and humped, with long, shaggy hair. It has a wide head and tiny red eyes, two long horns curving from its head, and a fearful temper. The horns, from tip to tip can measure two spears in length. It is for good reason the bosk is called \'The Mother of the Wagon Peoples\'. It's flesh and milk furnish food and drink, its hides provide shelter, its tanned and sewn skin provides clothing. Weapons are made from the leather of it's hump, tools and implements from it's bone and horns, and the dung is dried and used for fuel. The bosk is revereed and slaughtering it without reason carries sever penalties.
“In several cases tarns have devoured their own masters, and it is not unusual for them, when loosed for feeding, to attack a human being with the same predatory zest they bestow on the yellow antelope, the tabuk, their favorite kill, or the ill- tempered, cumbersome bosk, a shaggy, long-haired wild ox of the Gorean plains.”
Outlaw of Gor
“The bosk, without which the Wagon Peoples could not live, is an oxlike creature. It is a huge, shambling animal, with a thick, humped neck and long, shaggy hair. It has a wide head and tiny red eyes, a temper to match that of a sleen, and two long, wicked horns that reach out from its head and suddenly curve forward to terminate in fearful points. Some of these horns, on the larger animals, measured from tip to tip, exceed the length of two spears.”
Nomads of Gor pages 4-5
Deer
Common name for certain hoofed, artiodactyl mammals, usually characterized by bony, often branching antlers that are shed and regenerated annually.
"Perhaps," suggested Gorm, "it is diseased or injured, and can no longer hunt the swift deer of the north ?"
Marauders of Gor page 108
Frevet
Small mammal, very quick, kept in some homes for insect control.
“The small animal skittered backward, with a sound of claws on the boards. Its eyes gleamed in the reflected light of the lamp. "Generally, too, they do not come this high," said the proprietor. "That is a frevet." The frevet is a small, quick, mammalian insectivore. "We have several in the house," he said. "They control the insects, the beetles and lice, and such."
Mercenaries of Gor page 276
Giani
Tiny panther, approximately the size of an Earthen cat, of solitary habits which inhabits the low branches of ground level in rainforests inland of Schendi.
“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 page 312
Guernon Monkey
Found in the jungle along the Ua river; recognized by their chattering sound.
“Trees surrounded us. Overhead bright jungle birds flew. We could hear the chattering of guernon monkeys about.”
Explorers of Gor page 307
“Guernon monkeys, too, usually inhabit this level…”
Explorers of Gor page 311
Hurt
A domesticated marsupial raised on fenced in ranches in several of Gor's northern cities. It is a two legged animal and has black wool which is sheared by slaves. It is herded by domesticated sleen.
“Cernus of Ar wore a coarse black robe, woven probably from the wool of the bounding, two-legged Hurt, a domesticated marsupial raised in large numbers in the environs of several of Gor's northern cities. The Hurt, raised on large, fenced ranches, herded by domesticated sleen and sheared by chained slaves, replaces its wool four times a year.” Assassin of Gor page 39
Jit Monkey
A nocturnal simian mammal which inhabits the Schendi rainforests.
“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 page 312
Kaiila, Desert
Also known as sand kaiila; relative of the southern Kailla this omnivorous animal is similar in most aspects barring pelt color and rearing of young; pelt color is tawny or black and young are suckled for a length of time. The men of the Tahari Desert use this mount.
“The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of Gor; there is obviously a phylogenetic affinity between the two varieties, or species; I conjecture, though I do not know, that the sand kaiila is a desert-adapted mutation of the subequatorial stock; both animals are lofty, proud, silken creatures, long-necked and smooth-gaited; both are triply lidded, the third lid being a transparent membrane, of great utility in the blasts of the dry storms of the southern plains or the Tahari; both creatures are comparable in size, ranging from some twenty to twenty-two hands at the shoulder; both are swift; both have incredible stamina; under ideal conditions both can range six hundred pasangs in a day; in the dune country, of course, in the heavy, sliding sands, a march of fifty pasangs is considered good; both, too, I might mention, are high-strung, vicious-tempered animals; in pelt the southern kaiila ranges from a rich gold to black; the sand kaiila, on the other hand, are almost all tawny, though I have seen black sand Kaiila…”
Tribesmen of Gor
Kaiila, Southern
Large (20-22 hands) carnivorous mammal with long neck and silky fur; its eyes have 3 lids; is viviparous has incredible stamina (capable of covering 600 in a day) in spite of its vicious temper it can be trained for riding. It has a rich gold to black colored fur. The kaiila is a mammal, but there is no suckling of the young, who begin hunt within hours of birth. These are the mounts of the Wagon Peoples.
“The mount of the Wagon Peoples, unknown in the northern hemisphere of Gor, is the terrifying but beautiful kaiila. It is a silken, carnivorous, lofty creature, graceful, long-necked, smooth-gaited. It is viviparous and undoubtedly mammalian, though there is no suckling of the young. The young are born vicious and by instinct, as soon as they can struggle to their feet, they hunt.”
Nomads of Gor page 13
Kailiauk, Barrens, Herds Of
Gigantic, dangerous beast that stands 20-25 hands at the shoulder and weighing as much as 4,000 lbs, they migrate across the Barrens in massive herds, hunted by Red Savages and those who trade in their hides. They have a trident horn.
“Their culture tends to be nomadic, and is based on the herbivorous, lofty kaiila, substantially the same animal as is found in the Tahari, save for the wider footpads of the Tahari beast, suitable for negotiating deep sand, and the lumbering, gregarious, short-tempered, trident-homed kailiauk.”
Savages of Gor
Kailiauk, Forest
Four-legged wide-headed, lumbering, stocky ruminants, described as short-trunked and tawny. The males have 3 trident-like horns, with brown and reddish bars on the haunches. The males are 400 to 500 Gorean stone (1600-2000lbs) and are 10 hands at the shoulder. The females are 8 hands and weigh 300 - 400 Gorean stone (1200-1600 lbs). Their horns and tooled hides are major exports of the port of Schendi.
”Kailiauk are four-legged, wide-headed, lumbering, stocky ruminants. Their herds are usually found in the savannahs and plains north and south of the rain forests, but some herds frequent the forests as well. These animals are short-trunked and tawny. They commonly have brown and reddish bars on the haunches. The males, tridentlike, have three horns. These horns bristle from their foreheads. The males are usually about ten hands at the shoulders and the females about eight hands. The males average about four hundred to five hundred Gorean stone in weight, some sixteen hundred to two thousand pounds, and the females average about three to four hundred Gorean stone in weight, some twelve hundred to sixteen hundred pounds.”
Explorers of Gor page 93
Kailiauk, Prairie
Short-trunked, stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains. Tawny in color with red and brown bars on their haunches. Their wide heads bear a trident horn. They instinctively circle when resting, their she's and young protected within.
“Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-bunked 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, she's and young within the circle of tridents..”
Nomads of Gor page 2
Kur
A large (8-9') furred 4 legged mammal which can stand upright or on all fours; each paw has 6 multiple-jointed digits with retractable claws and an opposing thumb. It has 2 rows of teeth. They are extremely strong and ferocious regarding humans as food. The Kur are members of an alien race, the Kurii.
“The thing, its head lifted, surveyed the assembly of free men. The pupils of its eyes, in the sunlight, were extremely small and black. They were like points in the yellowish green cornea. I knew that, in darkness, they could swell, like dark moons, to fill almost the entire optic orifice, some three or four inches in width. Evolution, on some distant, perhaps vanished world, had adapted this life form for both diurnial and nocturnal hunting. Doubtless, like the cat, it hunted when hungry, and its efficient visual capacities, like those of the cats, meant that there was no time of the day or night when it might not be feared. Its head was approximately the width of the chest of a large man. It had a flat snout, with wide nostrils. Its ears were large, and pointed. They lifted from the side of its head, listening, and then lay back against the furred sides ofthe head. Kurii, I had been told, usually, in meeting men, laid the ears back against the sides of their heads, to increase their resemblance to humans. The ears are often laid back, also, incidentally, in hostility or anger, and, always, in its attacks. It is apparently physiologically im-possible for a Kur to attack without its shoulders hunching, its claws emerging, and its ears lying back against the head. The nostrils of the beast drank in what information it wished, as they, like its eyes, surveyed the throng. The trail-ing capacities of the Kurii are not as superb as those of the sleen, but they were reputed to be the equal of those of larls. The hearing, similarly, is acute. Again it is equated with that of the larl, and not the sharply-sensed sleen. There was little doubt that the day vision of the Kurii was equivalent to that of men, if not superior, and the night vision, of course, was infinitely superior; their sense of smell, too, of course, was inccmparably superior to that of men, and their sense of hearing as well. Moreover, they, like men, were rational. Like men, they were a single-brained organism, limited by a spinal column.”
Marauders of Gor page 169
Larl
A large (7 ft. at shoulder) feline cat like pupils and a broad viper shaped head; carnivorous; similar to a lion; the females of the species tends to be smaller.
“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.”
Priest Kings of Gor page 18
“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
Larl, Black
Predominately nocturnal larl which is sable coated and maned both male and female.
“The black larl, which is predominantly nocturnal, is manned, both male and female.”
Priest Kings of Gor page 18
Larl, Red
Predominately day hunting larl which is tawny-red coated and has no mane in either male or female.
“The red larl, which hunts whenever 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 pages 18 - 19
Larl, White
Seen only in the icy mountains of the Sardar they are the largest of the big cats approximately 8 feet standing; upper canines extending below their jaws very similar to saber-toothed tiger; long tails are tufted at the ends.
“There was a sudden startled rattle of chains and I saw two huge, white larls frozen in the momentary paralysis of registering my presence, and then with but an instant’s fleeting passage both beasts turned upon me and hurled themselves enraged to the lengths of their chains.”
Priest Kings of Gor page 22
“They were gigantic beasts, superb specimens, perhaps eight feet at the shoulder. Their upper canine fangs, like daggers mounted in their jaws, must have been at least a foot in length and extended well below their jaws in the manner of ancient sabre-toothed tigers. The four nostril slits of each animal were flared and their great chests lifted and fell with the intensity of their excitement. Their tails, long and tufted at the end, lashed back and forth.”
Priest Kings of Gor page 22
Lart, Snow
A small mammal, about 10 inches high, weighing between 8 and 12 pounds having 4 legs. The snow lart has two stomachs and hunts in summer, filling the second stomach in the fall to last the animal through winter. It's pelt is snowy white and thick. It is considered valuable, selling in Ar for half a silver tarsk. They are found in the Polar North.
"I had them both for the pelt of a snow lart and the pelts of four leems," said Imnak, rather pleased with himself.”
Beasts of Gor
Leem
A small arctic rodent some five to ten ounces in weight which hybernates in the winter. Its furs are sold by the Red Hunters.
“It is mammalian, and has four legs. It eats bird’s eggs and preys on the leem, a small arctic rodent, some five to ten ounces in weight, which hibernates during the winter.” Beasts of Gor
Panther, Jungle
Less dangerous to man than the northern variety: found in the Schendi rainforest.
“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.”
Explorers of Gor page 312
Porcupine, Long-Tailed
Animal of the canopy level of the rainforest.
“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 page 311
Quala
(pl. qualae) Tiny, three-toed mammal, dun-colored with a stiff, brushy mane of black hair.
“Near one of the green stretches I saw what I first thought was a shadow, but as the tarn passed, it scattered into a scampering flock of tiny creatures, probably the small, three-toed mammals called qualae, dun-coloured and with a stiff brushy mane of black hair.”
Tarnsman of Gor
Slee
A rodent found on the ground zone of the Schendi rainforests.
“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 page 312
Sleen, Forest
Lizard like mammal, up to 20 feet long, sinuous, black or brown in color. It is furred. In its attack frenzy it is one of the most dangerous animals on Gor.
“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.”
Beasts of Gor
Sleen, Gray
Said to be Gor's finest tracker, this six legged sleen is a furred mammal with silver gray fur. It has an agile, sinuous body, thick as a drum and is 14-15 feet long. The gray sleen has a broad triangular head and a huge jaw with two rows of fangs and a dark tongue. It's widely set eyes have slit-like pupils. As is true for all sleens, it has six legs. This breed is relentless and tenacious. It can follow a scent that is weeks old for a thousand pasangs.
“"Keep you legs apart," he said. "It is a gray sleen. I raised it from a whelp. Ah, greetings, Borko! How are you, old fellow?”
Dancer of Gor page 160
Sleen, Hunting
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.
“Hunting sleen are trained to scent out and destroy escaped slaves. Their senses are unusually keen. Tuchuks, in the south, as I recalled, had also used sleen to hunt slaves, and, of course, to protect their herds.”
Raiders of Gor page 105
Sleen, Prairie
The prairie sleen is tawny in color, smaller than the forest sleen, but just as unpredictable and vicious. Domesticated prairie sleen are used for hunting and nocturnal herd sleen are used as shepherds and sentinels. They are released from their cages with the falling of darkness, responding only to the voice of their master.
“..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 page 2
Sleen, Snow
Inhabits the northern regions. Always white in color.
‘In Lydius,’ said he, ‘we encounter often the furs of snow sleen, fresh and handsome and warm.”
Beasts of Gor
“Two sorts of beasts are kept in domestication in the north; the first sort of beast is the snow sleen; the second is the white-skinned woman.”
Beasts of Gor
Sloth
A slow-moving arboreal edentate mammal they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits
“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 page 311
Squirrels, Black
Animal of the ground zone of the rain forest.
“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 page 312
Tabuk, Common
Resembles an antelope, yellow in color with a single horn, found in many area's of Gor. It travels in fleet footed herds and haunts the ka-la-na thickets of the planet occasionally venturing into the meadows in search of berries and salt. It's meat is used as food by men (often as tabuk steak) and animals. 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
Tabuk, Northern
Much larger than the smaller southern variety, tawny and swift, standing ten hands at the shoulders. They have a single spiraling ivory horn, which can be 2 1/2 inches in diameter at the base and over a yard in length. The Red Hunters are irrevocably 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.
“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, antelopelike 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-hall inches in diameter, and better than a yard in length.”
Beasts of Gor
Tabuk, Prairie
Described as tawny and gazelle-like with a single horn, it responds to threat by scurrying away or lying down. Presumably this reponse is useful because of the high grass of the Barrens as most predators depend on vision to detect and locate it's prey.
“Once a tabuk, a prairie tabuk, tawny in the Barrens, single horned, gazellelike, had grazed nearby. It had browsed within feet of us.” Blood Brothers of Gor page 316
Tarsiers
An undescribed animal of the rainforests.
“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 page 312
Tarsk
Fat, brindled short-legged quadraped; hoofed, flat-snouted, 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.
“The tarsk, a small one, no more than forty pounds, tasked, snorting, bits of leaf scattering behind it, charged. It swerved, slashing with its curved tusks, and I only man. aged to turn it aside with the point of the raider’s spear I carried, one of four such weapons we had had since our brief skirmish with raiders, that in which we had obtained our canoe, that which had occurred in the marsh east of Ushindi. It had twisted hack on me with incredible swiftness. Suddenly it turned its short wide head, with that bristling mane running down its back to its tail. “Get behind me!” I called to the girl. It put down its head, mounted on that short, thick neck, and, scrambling, charged at the blond-haired barbarian. She stumbled back, screaming, and, the animal at her legs, fell. But in that moment, from the side, I thrust the animal from her. It, immediately, turned again. I thrust it again to the side. This time, suddenly, before it could turn again, I, with a clear stroke, thrust the spear through its thick-set body, behind the right foreleg.”
Explorers of Gor pages 345 - 346
Tarsk, Giant
Presumably similar to the common tarsk, however it stands 10 hands at the shoulder and is hunted with lances from tarnback.
“The giant tarsk, which can stand ten hands at the shoulder, is even hunted with lances from tarnback.”
Explorers of Gor page 345
Urt, Canal
Rapid moving water mammal living along canals; particularly found in Port Kar.
“Behind the man, in the stern, lay the bloody, white-furred bodies of two canal urts. One would have weighed about sixty pounds, and the other, I speculate, about seventy-five or eighty pounds.”
Savages of Gor
Urt, Giant
Fat, sleek, and white, it has 3 rows of needle-like white teeth and 4 horns.
“It was a giant urt, fat, sleek and white; it bared its 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 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.”
Outlaw of Gor
Urt, Forest
Nocturnal animal living in the forests, hunted by the hook-billed night crying fleer.
“From through the trees, on the other side of the camp, came what I took to be the sound of a bird, the hook-billed, night-crying fleer, which preys on nocturnal forest urts.” Slave Girl of Gor
Urt, Gliding
Animal living in the canopies of the rainforests inland of Schendi.
“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 page 311
Urt, Ground
A small animal which inhabits the floor of the rainforests inland of Schendi.
“In the ground zone, and on the ground itself, are certain birds, some flighted, like the hook-billed gort, which preys largely on rodents, such as ground urts, and the insectivorous whistling finch, and some unflighted, like the grub borer and lang gim.”
Explorers of Gor page 312
Urt, Leaf
A small tree-dwelling rodent having 4 toes which inhabits the rainforests inland of Schendi.
“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 page 312
Urt, Tree
A small tree-climbing rodent found in the rainforests inland of Schendi
“Monkeys and tree urts, and snakes and insects, however, can also be found in this highest level.”
Explorers of Gor page 311
Vart
Carnivorous; a small, sharp-toothed mammal that flies in flocks.
“The Vart is a small, sharp-toothed winged mammal, carnivorous, which commonly flies in flocks.”
Explorers of Gor page 36
Vart, Brown
Small carnivorous mammals that cling upside down to 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
Vart, Jungle
A relative of the Northern Vart. Inhabits Schendi rainforests
“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 page 312
Verr
A mountain goat indigenous to the Voltai Mountains; wild, agile, ill-tempered with long hair and spiraling horns; source of a form of wool; it', milk is potable as well as being used for cheese.
“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
A small, sleen-like, carnivorous mammal which inhabits the rainforests inland of Schendi especially along the Ua River. It grows to about 2 feet in length, and weighs 8-10 lbs. It is diurnal, can swim very well, and builds a stick and mud nest in the branches of a tree where it spends the night.
“There is, however, a sleenlike animal, though much smaller, about two feet in length and some eight to ten pounds in weight, the zeder, which frequents the Ua and her tributaries. It knifes through the water by day and, at night, returns to its nest, built from sticks and mud in the branches of a tree overlooking the water.”
Explorers of Gor page 312
Over six varieties inhabit the Schendi rainforests. The great spined anteater grows to 20 ft in length and feeds on white ants or termites using their mighty claws to break apart their towering nests of toughened clay, then darting it's 4 foot saliva coated tongue, drawing thousands into it's narrow tube-like mouth.
“A great spined anteater, more than twenty feet in length, shuffled about the edges of the camp. We saw its long, thin tongue dart in and out of its mouth.”
Explorers of Gor page 29
“More than six varieties of anteater are also found here, and more than twenty kinds of small, fleet, single-horned tabuk.”
Explorers of Gor page 312
Armored Gatch
A marsupial mammal found in the Schendi rainforests
“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 page 312
Bosk
A large shambling animal, its neck is thick and humped, with long, shaggy hair. It has a wide head and tiny red eyes, two long horns curving from its head, and a fearful temper. The horns, from tip to tip can measure two spears in length. It is for good reason the bosk is called \'The Mother of the Wagon Peoples\'. It's flesh and milk furnish food and drink, its hides provide shelter, its tanned and sewn skin provides clothing. Weapons are made from the leather of it's hump, tools and implements from it's bone and horns, and the dung is dried and used for fuel. The bosk is revereed and slaughtering it without reason carries sever penalties.
“In several cases tarns have devoured their own masters, and it is not unusual for them, when loosed for feeding, to attack a human being with the same predatory zest they bestow on the yellow antelope, the tabuk, their favorite kill, or the ill- tempered, cumbersome bosk, a shaggy, long-haired wild ox of the Gorean plains.”
Outlaw of Gor
“The bosk, without which the Wagon Peoples could not live, is an oxlike creature. It is a huge, shambling animal, with a thick, humped neck and long, shaggy hair. It has a wide head and tiny red eyes, a temper to match that of a sleen, and two long, wicked horns that reach out from its head and suddenly curve forward to terminate in fearful points. Some of these horns, on the larger animals, measured from tip to tip, exceed the length of two spears.”
Nomads of Gor pages 4-5
Deer
Common name for certain hoofed, artiodactyl mammals, usually characterized by bony, often branching antlers that are shed and regenerated annually.
"Perhaps," suggested Gorm, "it is diseased or injured, and can no longer hunt the swift deer of the north ?"
Marauders of Gor page 108
Frevet
Small mammal, very quick, kept in some homes for insect control.
“The small animal skittered backward, with a sound of claws on the boards. Its eyes gleamed in the reflected light of the lamp. "Generally, too, they do not come this high," said the proprietor. "That is a frevet." The frevet is a small, quick, mammalian insectivore. "We have several in the house," he said. "They control the insects, the beetles and lice, and such."
Mercenaries of Gor page 276
Giani
Tiny panther, approximately the size of an Earthen cat, of solitary habits which inhabits the low branches of ground level in rainforests inland of Schendi.
“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 page 312
Guernon Monkey
Found in the jungle along the Ua river; recognized by their chattering sound.
“Trees surrounded us. Overhead bright jungle birds flew. We could hear the chattering of guernon monkeys about.”
Explorers of Gor page 307
“Guernon monkeys, too, usually inhabit this level…”
Explorers of Gor page 311
Hurt
A domesticated marsupial raised on fenced in ranches in several of Gor's northern cities. It is a two legged animal and has black wool which is sheared by slaves. It is herded by domesticated sleen.
“Cernus of Ar wore a coarse black robe, woven probably from the wool of the bounding, two-legged Hurt, a domesticated marsupial raised in large numbers in the environs of several of Gor's northern cities. The Hurt, raised on large, fenced ranches, herded by domesticated sleen and sheared by chained slaves, replaces its wool four times a year.” Assassin of Gor page 39
Jit Monkey
A nocturnal simian mammal which inhabits the Schendi rainforests.
“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 page 312
Kaiila, Desert
Also known as sand kaiila; relative of the southern Kailla this omnivorous animal is similar in most aspects barring pelt color and rearing of young; pelt color is tawny or black and young are suckled for a length of time. The men of the Tahari Desert use this mount.
“The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of Gor; there is obviously a phylogenetic affinity between the two varieties, or species; I conjecture, though I do not know, that the sand kaiila is a desert-adapted mutation of the subequatorial stock; both animals are lofty, proud, silken creatures, long-necked and smooth-gaited; both are triply lidded, the third lid being a transparent membrane, of great utility in the blasts of the dry storms of the southern plains or the Tahari; both creatures are comparable in size, ranging from some twenty to twenty-two hands at the shoulder; both are swift; both have incredible stamina; under ideal conditions both can range six hundred pasangs in a day; in the dune country, of course, in the heavy, sliding sands, a march of fifty pasangs is considered good; both, too, I might mention, are high-strung, vicious-tempered animals; in pelt the southern kaiila ranges from a rich gold to black; the sand kaiila, on the other hand, are almost all tawny, though I have seen black sand Kaiila…”
Tribesmen of Gor
Kaiila, Southern
Large (20-22 hands) carnivorous mammal with long neck and silky fur; its eyes have 3 lids; is viviparous has incredible stamina (capable of covering 600 in a day) in spite of its vicious temper it can be trained for riding. It has a rich gold to black colored fur. The kaiila is a mammal, but there is no suckling of the young, who begin hunt within hours of birth. These are the mounts of the Wagon Peoples.
“The mount of the Wagon Peoples, unknown in the northern hemisphere of Gor, is the terrifying but beautiful kaiila. It is a silken, carnivorous, lofty creature, graceful, long-necked, smooth-gaited. It is viviparous and undoubtedly mammalian, though there is no suckling of the young. The young are born vicious and by instinct, as soon as they can struggle to their feet, they hunt.”
Nomads of Gor page 13
Kailiauk, Barrens, Herds Of
Gigantic, dangerous beast that stands 20-25 hands at the shoulder and weighing as much as 4,000 lbs, they migrate across the Barrens in massive herds, hunted by Red Savages and those who trade in their hides. They have a trident horn.
“Their culture tends to be nomadic, and is based on the herbivorous, lofty kaiila, substantially the same animal as is found in the Tahari, save for the wider footpads of the Tahari beast, suitable for negotiating deep sand, and the lumbering, gregarious, short-tempered, trident-homed kailiauk.”
Savages of Gor
Kailiauk, Forest
Four-legged wide-headed, lumbering, stocky ruminants, described as short-trunked and tawny. The males have 3 trident-like horns, with brown and reddish bars on the haunches. The males are 400 to 500 Gorean stone (1600-2000lbs) and are 10 hands at the shoulder. The females are 8 hands and weigh 300 - 400 Gorean stone (1200-1600 lbs). Their horns and tooled hides are major exports of the port of Schendi.
”Kailiauk are four-legged, wide-headed, lumbering, stocky ruminants. Their herds are usually found in the savannahs and plains north and south of the rain forests, but some herds frequent the forests as well. These animals are short-trunked and tawny. They commonly have brown and reddish bars on the haunches. The males, tridentlike, have three horns. These horns bristle from their foreheads. The males are usually about ten hands at the shoulders and the females about eight hands. The males average about four hundred to five hundred Gorean stone in weight, some sixteen hundred to two thousand pounds, and the females average about three to four hundred Gorean stone in weight, some twelve hundred to sixteen hundred pounds.”
Explorers of Gor page 93
Kailiauk, Prairie
Short-trunked, stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains. Tawny in color with red and brown bars on their haunches. Their wide heads bear a trident horn. They instinctively circle when resting, their she's and young protected within.
“Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-bunked 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, she's and young within the circle of tridents..”
Nomads of Gor page 2
Kur
A large (8-9') furred 4 legged mammal which can stand upright or on all fours; each paw has 6 multiple-jointed digits with retractable claws and an opposing thumb. It has 2 rows of teeth. They are extremely strong and ferocious regarding humans as food. The Kur are members of an alien race, the Kurii.
“The thing, its head lifted, surveyed the assembly of free men. The pupils of its eyes, in the sunlight, were extremely small and black. They were like points in the yellowish green cornea. I knew that, in darkness, they could swell, like dark moons, to fill almost the entire optic orifice, some three or four inches in width. Evolution, on some distant, perhaps vanished world, had adapted this life form for both diurnial and nocturnal hunting. Doubtless, like the cat, it hunted when hungry, and its efficient visual capacities, like those of the cats, meant that there was no time of the day or night when it might not be feared. Its head was approximately the width of the chest of a large man. It had a flat snout, with wide nostrils. Its ears were large, and pointed. They lifted from the side of its head, listening, and then lay back against the furred sides ofthe head. Kurii, I had been told, usually, in meeting men, laid the ears back against the sides of their heads, to increase their resemblance to humans. The ears are often laid back, also, incidentally, in hostility or anger, and, always, in its attacks. It is apparently physiologically im-possible for a Kur to attack without its shoulders hunching, its claws emerging, and its ears lying back against the head. The nostrils of the beast drank in what information it wished, as they, like its eyes, surveyed the throng. The trail-ing capacities of the Kurii are not as superb as those of the sleen, but they were reputed to be the equal of those of larls. The hearing, similarly, is acute. Again it is equated with that of the larl, and not the sharply-sensed sleen. There was little doubt that the day vision of the Kurii was equivalent to that of men, if not superior, and the night vision, of course, was infinitely superior; their sense of smell, too, of course, was inccmparably superior to that of men, and their sense of hearing as well. Moreover, they, like men, were rational. Like men, they were a single-brained organism, limited by a spinal column.”
Marauders of Gor page 169
Larl
A large (7 ft. at shoulder) feline cat like pupils and a broad viper shaped head; carnivorous; similar to a lion; the females of the species tends to be smaller.
“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.”
Priest Kings of Gor page 18
“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
Larl, Black
Predominately nocturnal larl which is sable coated and maned both male and female.
“The black larl, which is predominantly nocturnal, is manned, both male and female.”
Priest Kings of Gor page 18
Larl, Red
Predominately day hunting larl which is tawny-red coated and has no mane in either male or female.
“The red larl, which hunts whenever 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 pages 18 - 19
Larl, White
Seen only in the icy mountains of the Sardar they are the largest of the big cats approximately 8 feet standing; upper canines extending below their jaws very similar to saber-toothed tiger; long tails are tufted at the ends.
“There was a sudden startled rattle of chains and I saw two huge, white larls frozen in the momentary paralysis of registering my presence, and then with but an instant’s fleeting passage both beasts turned upon me and hurled themselves enraged to the lengths of their chains.”
Priest Kings of Gor page 22
“They were gigantic beasts, superb specimens, perhaps eight feet at the shoulder. Their upper canine fangs, like daggers mounted in their jaws, must have been at least a foot in length and extended well below their jaws in the manner of ancient sabre-toothed tigers. The four nostril slits of each animal were flared and their great chests lifted and fell with the intensity of their excitement. Their tails, long and tufted at the end, lashed back and forth.”
Priest Kings of Gor page 22
Lart, Snow
A small mammal, about 10 inches high, weighing between 8 and 12 pounds having 4 legs. The snow lart has two stomachs and hunts in summer, filling the second stomach in the fall to last the animal through winter. It's pelt is snowy white and thick. It is considered valuable, selling in Ar for half a silver tarsk. They are found in the Polar North.
"I had them both for the pelt of a snow lart and the pelts of four leems," said Imnak, rather pleased with himself.”
Beasts of Gor
Leem
A small arctic rodent some five to ten ounces in weight which hybernates in the winter. Its furs are sold by the Red Hunters.
“It is mammalian, and has four legs. It eats bird’s eggs and preys on the leem, a small arctic rodent, some five to ten ounces in weight, which hibernates during the winter.” Beasts of Gor
Panther, Jungle
Less dangerous to man than the northern variety: found in the Schendi rainforest.
“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.”
Explorers of Gor page 312
Porcupine, Long-Tailed
Animal of the canopy level of the rainforest.
“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 page 311
Quala
(pl. qualae) Tiny, three-toed mammal, dun-colored with a stiff, brushy mane of black hair.
“Near one of the green stretches I saw what I first thought was a shadow, but as the tarn passed, it scattered into a scampering flock of tiny creatures, probably the small, three-toed mammals called qualae, dun-coloured and with a stiff brushy mane of black hair.”
Tarnsman of Gor
Slee
A rodent found on the ground zone of the Schendi rainforests.
“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 page 312
Sleen, Forest
Lizard like mammal, up to 20 feet long, sinuous, black or brown in color. It is furred. In its attack frenzy it is one of the most dangerous animals on Gor.
“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.”
Beasts of Gor
Sleen, Gray
Said to be Gor's finest tracker, this six legged sleen is a furred mammal with silver gray fur. It has an agile, sinuous body, thick as a drum and is 14-15 feet long. The gray sleen has a broad triangular head and a huge jaw with two rows of fangs and a dark tongue. It's widely set eyes have slit-like pupils. As is true for all sleens, it has six legs. This breed is relentless and tenacious. It can follow a scent that is weeks old for a thousand pasangs.
“"Keep you legs apart," he said. "It is a gray sleen. I raised it from a whelp. Ah, greetings, Borko! How are you, old fellow?”
Dancer of Gor page 160
Sleen, Hunting
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.
“Hunting sleen are trained to scent out and destroy escaped slaves. Their senses are unusually keen. Tuchuks, in the south, as I recalled, had also used sleen to hunt slaves, and, of course, to protect their herds.”
Raiders of Gor page 105
Sleen, Prairie
The prairie sleen is tawny in color, smaller than the forest sleen, but just as unpredictable and vicious. Domesticated prairie sleen are used for hunting and nocturnal herd sleen are used as shepherds and sentinels. They are released from their cages with the falling of darkness, responding only to the voice of their master.
“..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 page 2
Sleen, Snow
Inhabits the northern regions. Always white in color.
‘In Lydius,’ said he, ‘we encounter often the furs of snow sleen, fresh and handsome and warm.”
Beasts of Gor
“Two sorts of beasts are kept in domestication in the north; the first sort of beast is the snow sleen; the second is the white-skinned woman.”
Beasts of Gor
Sloth
A slow-moving arboreal edentate mammal they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits
“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 page 311
Squirrels, Black
Animal of the ground zone of the rain forest.
“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 page 312
Tabuk, Common
Resembles an antelope, yellow in color with a single horn, found in many area's of Gor. It travels in fleet footed herds and haunts the ka-la-na thickets of the planet occasionally venturing into the meadows in search of berries and salt. It's meat is used as food by men (often as tabuk steak) and animals. 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
Tabuk, Northern
Much larger than the smaller southern variety, tawny and swift, standing ten hands at the shoulders. They have a single spiraling ivory horn, which can be 2 1/2 inches in diameter at the base and over a yard in length. The Red Hunters are irrevocably 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.
“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, antelopelike 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-hall inches in diameter, and better than a yard in length.”
Beasts of Gor
Tabuk, Prairie
Described as tawny and gazelle-like with a single horn, it responds to threat by scurrying away or lying down. Presumably this reponse is useful because of the high grass of the Barrens as most predators depend on vision to detect and locate it's prey.
“Once a tabuk, a prairie tabuk, tawny in the Barrens, single horned, gazellelike, had grazed nearby. It had browsed within feet of us.” Blood Brothers of Gor page 316
Tarsiers
An undescribed animal of the rainforests.
“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 page 312
Tarsk
Fat, brindled short-legged quadraped; hoofed, flat-snouted, 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.
“The tarsk, a small one, no more than forty pounds, tasked, snorting, bits of leaf scattering behind it, charged. It swerved, slashing with its curved tusks, and I only man. aged to turn it aside with the point of the raider’s spear I carried, one of four such weapons we had had since our brief skirmish with raiders, that in which we had obtained our canoe, that which had occurred in the marsh east of Ushindi. It had twisted hack on me with incredible swiftness. Suddenly it turned its short wide head, with that bristling mane running down its back to its tail. “Get behind me!” I called to the girl. It put down its head, mounted on that short, thick neck, and, scrambling, charged at the blond-haired barbarian. She stumbled back, screaming, and, the animal at her legs, fell. But in that moment, from the side, I thrust the animal from her. It, immediately, turned again. I thrust it again to the side. This time, suddenly, before it could turn again, I, with a clear stroke, thrust the spear through its thick-set body, behind the right foreleg.”
Explorers of Gor pages 345 - 346
Tarsk, Giant
Presumably similar to the common tarsk, however it stands 10 hands at the shoulder and is hunted with lances from tarnback.
“The giant tarsk, which can stand ten hands at the shoulder, is even hunted with lances from tarnback.”
Explorers of Gor page 345
Urt, Canal
Rapid moving water mammal living along canals; particularly found in Port Kar.
“Behind the man, in the stern, lay the bloody, white-furred bodies of two canal urts. One would have weighed about sixty pounds, and the other, I speculate, about seventy-five or eighty pounds.”
Savages of Gor
Urt, Giant
Fat, sleek, and white, it has 3 rows of needle-like white teeth and 4 horns.
“It was a giant urt, fat, sleek and white; it bared its 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 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.”
Outlaw of Gor
Urt, Forest
Nocturnal animal living in the forests, hunted by the hook-billed night crying fleer.
“From through the trees, on the other side of the camp, came what I took to be the sound of a bird, the hook-billed, night-crying fleer, which preys on nocturnal forest urts.” Slave Girl of Gor
Urt, Gliding
Animal living in the canopies of the rainforests inland of Schendi.
“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 page 311
Urt, Ground
A small animal which inhabits the floor of the rainforests inland of Schendi.
“In the ground zone, and on the ground itself, are certain birds, some flighted, like the hook-billed gort, which preys largely on rodents, such as ground urts, and the insectivorous whistling finch, and some unflighted, like the grub borer and lang gim.”
Explorers of Gor page 312
Urt, Leaf
A small tree-dwelling rodent having 4 toes which inhabits the rainforests inland of Schendi.
“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 page 312
Urt, Tree
A small tree-climbing rodent found in the rainforests inland of Schendi
“Monkeys and tree urts, and snakes and insects, however, can also be found in this highest level.”
Explorers of Gor page 311
Vart
Carnivorous; a small, sharp-toothed mammal that flies in flocks.
“The Vart is a small, sharp-toothed winged mammal, carnivorous, which commonly flies in flocks.”
Explorers of Gor page 36
Vart, Brown
Small carnivorous mammals that cling upside down to 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
Vart, Jungle
A relative of the Northern Vart. Inhabits Schendi rainforests
“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 page 312
Verr
A mountain goat indigenous to the Voltai Mountains; wild, agile, ill-tempered with long hair and spiraling horns; source of a form of wool; it', milk is potable as well as being used for cheese.
“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
A small, sleen-like, carnivorous mammal which inhabits the rainforests inland of Schendi especially along the Ua River. It grows to about 2 feet in length, and weighs 8-10 lbs. It is diurnal, can swim very well, and builds a stick and mud nest in the branches of a tree where it spends the night.
“There is, however, a sleenlike animal, though much smaller, about two feet in length and some eight to ten pounds in weight, the zeder, which frequents the Ua and her tributaries. It knifes through the water by day and, at night, returns to its nest, built from sticks and mud in the branches of a tree overlooking the water.”
Explorers of Gor page 312
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