Animals on Gor




	ANIMALS Animals of Gor vary a great deal from those of earth. However more vicious and frightening they are than those of Urth, the Goreans have learned to tame and use them in productive ways - with careful vigilance and a strong arm. ant known in the jungles of Schendi as 'The Marchers' are these aggressive carnivorous insects. Each is about 2 inches long, with a shiny black exoskeleton and two antennae. Their name is derived from their, apparently seasonal, marches through the jungle in a single column, yards wide and pasangs in length. They may number in the millions, their path's widening to as much as 500 feet when they overtake, swarm over, and devour all flesh, living or dead, in their path. Their bite is extremely painful, but not poisonous. Their victims die from being weakened from relentless attack, being overcome until they are still. Tarl Cabot and the small men, led a column of Marchers, by baiting them with fresh meat, the ants, weaving like a whispering black snake through the jungle until they overran an encampment of the Mamba people, Cabot's intended target. Book 13: Explorers of Gor, pages, 399-403 . anteater more than six varieties inhabit the rainforests of Schendi; the great spined anteater grows to 20 ft in length, feeds on white ants, or termites, breaking apart their towering nests of toughened clay with mighty claws, then darting it's 4 foot tongue, coated with saliva, drawing thousands into it's narrow, tubelike mouth Book 13: Explorers of Gor, pages 293 and 312 armored gatch found in the inland rain forests of Schendi, it is a type of marsupial mammal Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 312 arthropod large animals perhaps eight feet long and a yard high, they are found in the tunnels of the Priest Kings; multi-legged with segmented body plates they rustle when they move like plastic armor; they are timid creatures with eyes at the end of long stalks Book 3: Priest-Kings of Gor, page 82 baleen whale a bluish white spotted whale with a blunt fin, it is hunted by the Red Hunters - whale bone from the Baleen Whale used to fashion instruments and weapons by the Red Hunters. Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 334 bint small carnivorous freshwater fish which inhabits the rivers of the rainforests inland of Schendi; a large school of bints can strip a carcass in minutes; similar to the piranha of EarthBook 13: Explorers of Gor, page 267 and 271 bosk a huge, shambling animal, with a thick, humped neck and long, shaggy hair. It has a wide head and tiny red eyes, a fearful temper, and two long, wicked, curved and pointed horns. The horns, from tip to tip may 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, shelter is made from it's hides, and clothing from it's tanned and sewn skins. Weapons are made from the leather of it's hump and many tools and implements from it's bone and horns. Even the dung is dried and used for fuel. The bosk is reverenced and the penalties for it's slaughter without reason are extreme. Book 3: Priest-Kings of Gor, page 45 Book 4 : Nomads Of Gor, pages 4 and 5. Book 6: Raiders of Gor, page 26. Book 8: Hunters of Gor, page 34 . Book 16: Guardsman of Gor, page 234. Cosian wingfish tiny, delicate fish, blue, about the size of a tarn disk; it has three or four slender spines in its dorsal fin which are poisonous, it is capable of hurling itself from the water and for brief distances, on its stiff pectoral fins, gliding through the air, to evade the smaller sea-tharlarions which seem to be immune to the poison of the spines. It is also sometimes referred to as the songfish because as a part of its courtship rituals, the males and females thrust their heads from the water and utter a sort of whistling sound. It is found only in the waters of Port Kar. Larger varieties are found farther out to sea. It is regarded as a great delicacy, its liver as the delicacy of delicacies. Book 4: Nomads of Gor, page 84-85. Book 6: Raiders of Gor, page 139 dock eel a black, carnivorous and aggresive, freshwater fish about four feet long and weighing up to 8-10 pounds; they inhabit the shallow waters around the dock and wharves of river ports Book 15: Rogue of Gor, page 155. Book 16: Guardsman of Gor, page 130 eel varieties include: river eel, black eel, and spotted eel. They are a voracious animal which can main or kill a slave in moments. Some varieties are edible and considered a Gorean delicacy. Book 25: Magicians of Gor, page 428 finch, whistling insectivorous bird found at the ground level of the rainforest, capable of flight Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 311 fleer large hook-billed nocturnal raptor (Book 11: Slave Girl of Gor, page 117 (the term Fleer refers to a tribe of Red Savages, a member of the Blue Sky Society, a warrior society of the Fleer which inhabits the Barrens; they have long hair combed back and flowing down the back like cornstalks; They ride their kaiila bareback and carry a long, feathered lance and a small, round war shield with medicine signs inscribed on it)) Book 17: Savages of Gor, page 256 fleer, hook-billed inhabits the emergent level of the rainforest; nocturnal Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 311 fleer, prairie yellow bird with long wings and a sharp bill; sometimes called the 'maize bird' or 'corn bird' from the belief that it is usually the first bird to find food Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 311 forest sleen double fanged, six legged mammal, twenty feet in length, weighing about 1100 pounds 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. Book 12: Beasts of Gor, pages 12-13 frevet small, quick, insectivorous mammal: often kept in homes for insect control Book 21: Mercenaries of Gor, page 276 fruit tindel believed to be a bird, it inhabits the rainforests of the Schendi area Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 311 gant, arctic migratory birds that nest in the mountains of the Hrimgar and in steep rocky outcroppings, called bird cliffs. The eggs of the arctic gant are eaten like apples when frozen. Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 196 gant, jungle related to the marsh gant, this bird inhabits the rain forests inland of Schendi Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 311 gant, marsh a long-legged marsh bird with a piping cry, similar to a curlew; webfooted, broad-billed and broad winged hunted by marsh girls It's cry is imitated by the rence people as as a surreptitious means of communication. Book 6: Raiders of Gor, pages 4, 10, 41, 44. Book 24: Vagabonds of Gor, page 128 giani tiny cat-sized panther of solitary habits which inhabits the low branches of ground level in rainforests inland of Schendi. Book 13: Explorer's of Gor, page 312 gim, horned small owl-like bird purplish in color, about four ounces in weight which inhabits the rainforests of northern Schendi/Gor Book 7: Captive of Gor, pages 39 and 97 gim, lang insectivorous bird inhabiting the rainforests inland of Schendi, lives on the groundfloor of the forest. Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 311 gim, yellow a bird, related to the horned gim, which inhabits the rainforests inland of Schendi, living in the forest's second level Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 311 gint a tiny (6") freshwater fish which inhabits the rivers of the rainforests inland of Schendi; it has bulbous eyes and flipper-like fins; is amphibious, having both lungs and gills; is capable of walking on its pectoral fins; often found in the company of tharlarion, feeding off the scraps of their kills Book 13: Explorers of Gor, pages 299 and 384 gint, giant a large cousin of the gint found in western Gor, similar in appearance, but with a 4-spined dorsal fin; is also amphibious and capable of walking on its pectoral fins Book 13: Explorers of Gor, pages 384 and 389-390 gitch might be similar to roaches; biting insect Book 21: Mercenaries of Gor, page 277 Golden Beetle about the size of a rhinoceros, glowing eyes, two multiply-hooked, tubular, hollow pincer like extensions that meet at the tips, perhaps a yard beyond its body. They seemed clearly some aberrant mutation of its jaw, its antennae, unlike those of Priest Kings, were very short. They curved and were tipped with a fluff of golden hair. Most strangely perhaps, were several long, golden strands, almost a mane, which extended from the creature's head over its domed, golden back and fell almost to the floor behind it. The back itself seemed divided into two thick casings which might once, ages before, have been horny wings, but now the tissues had, at the points of touching together, fused in such a way as to form what was for all practical purposes a thick, immobile golden shell. They live in the caverns below the Nest of the Priest Kings in the Sardar Mountains; their prey is the Priest Kings themselves. It releases an aroma and exudate which is so compelling to a Priest-King that to die by that method is referred to as succumbing to the 'Pleasures of the Golden Beetle'. Book 3: Priest-Kings of Gor, pages 180 and 274-276. Book 10: Tribesmen of Gor, page 31 golden hith a Gorean python, very rare, it is so large a man would find it difficult to encircle its body with his arms Book 3: Priest-Kings of Gor, page 191. Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 311 grasshopper, red described as weighing around four ounces, red in color Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 293 grub borer an insectivorous bird which inhabits the rainforests inland of Schendi - lives at ground level. Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 311 grunt a large, carnivorous, salt-water fish which inhabits Thassa; is often attracted by the blood of a wounded creature; similar to the shark of Earth Book 9: Marauders of Gor, page 59 grunt, blue a small, voracious, carnivorous freshwater fish, related to the Thassa grunt; like its larger cousin, it is attracted by blood Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 267 grunt, great speckled a fish inhabiting the Thassa and caught as food for sailors Book 11: Slave Girl of Gor, page 360 grunt, white-bellied a large game fish which haunts the plankton beds in the Polar North to feed on parsit fish. Its eggs are considered a rare delicacy. Book 9: Marauders of Gor, page 59. Book 14: Fighting Slave of Gor, page 276 guernon monkey found in the jungle along the Ua river; recognized by their chattering sound Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 307 gull, coasting from Torvaldsland, broad winged bird with black tips on its wings and tail feathers, similar to the Vosk gull. Its feathers are used on the war arrows of Torvaldsland Book 9: Marauders of Gor, page 235 gull, Schendi nest on land at night; inhabiting the area around Schendi on the Thassa Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 99 gull, Vosk from the Vosk Delta and Vosk River; it apparently has a loud or insistent cry which is imitated by the rence people as a means of communication at night. Its feathers are used on sheaf arrows. It winters on the prairies of the Wagon Peoples and flies north in the spring, when the ice breaks up. Book 4: Nomads of Gor, page 137 Book 15: Rogue of Gor, page 314 Book 24: Vagabonds of Gor, page 128 herlit large raptor; Gorean eagle, having a wingspan of 6-8 feet; is carnivorous, and has yellow feathers tipped with black; also called 'Sun-Striker' or 'out-of-the-sun-it-strikes', from its habit of striking with the sun above and behind it; inhabits the Barrens. Book 17: Savages of Gor, page 143. Book 18: Blood Brothers of gor, page 315 hermit bird, yellow breasted similar to Earth sap-sucker or woodpecker; beats with beak against trees such as the Tur tree to search for larvae. Book 8: Hunters of Gor, page 106 high tharlarion agile tharlarion used as a mount for riding. They have very short almost useless forelegs; carnivorous. hinti small, flea-like insects: unlike fleas, they are not parasites. hith many-banded Gorean python. hith, golden very large, rare Gorean python hook-billed gort a carnivorous hunting bird of the rainforests inland of Schendi; preys on ground urts. Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 311 HunterWhale black, cylindrical, toothed whale. hunting sleen hunter of men; twenty feet in length and weighs eleven hundred pounds. It is a domesticated forest sleen; double fanged and six footed. Its tail tends to switch back and forth, getting rigid as it hunts. Its ears flatten against its head just prior to its final charge attack on its prey. hurt domesticated and raised for wool in large numbers near several of Gor's northern cities; it is a marsupial kangaroo-like animal with a wooly coat. ivory-billed woodpecker bird found in the lower canopies of the rainforests near Schendi. jard a small, yellow-winged scavenger bird of the rainforest inland of Schendi. They live in large flocks, a flock can strip the meat from a tabuk in seconds.Found near Lydius. Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 149 Book 22: Dancer of Gor, page 426 jit monkey a nocternal, simian mammal which inhabits the rainforests inland of Schendi. Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 312 kaiila large carnivorous mammal with long neck and silky fur, stands twenty to twenty two hands high; its eyes have three lids; is vivaparous, has incredible stamina, and can be domesticated for riding in spite of its vicious temper; in the Tahari, its long hair is used for rope, its milk is potable by humans. kaiila, desert also known as sand kaiila; this omnivorous animal is related to the southern kaiila and similar in most aspects barring pelt color and rearing of young which are suckled for a time; pelt color is tawny or black and young are suckled for a length of time. Used as a mount by men of the Tahari desert. Book 10: Tribesmen of Gor, page 71 kaiila, southern twenty to twenty two hands high, carnivorous mammal with long neck and silky fur; its eyes have three lids; viviparous, has incredible stamina (capable of covering 600 miles in a day); can be domesticated for riding in spite of vicious temper. It has a rich gold to black coat color. It is a mammal, but does not suckle its young who begin to hunt from within hours of birth. Used as mounts by the Wagon Peoples. Book 4: Nomads of Gor, page 13 kailiauk, Barrens gigantic dangerous beasts standing twenty to twenty five hands at the shoulder and weigh as much as two tons; ruminant; tawny with red and brown markings onhaunches; they migrate across the Barrens in massive herds,hunted by the Red Savages and those who trade in their hides; have a trident horn. Book 17: Savages of Gor, pages 40 and 95 kailiauk, forest four-legged, wide-headed, lumbering, stocky ruminants, described as short-trunked and tawny. The males have three trident-like horns, with brown and reddish bars on the haunches. The males are four hundred to five hundred Gorean stone (1600-2000 pounds) and are ten hands at the shoulder. The females are eight hands and weigh three to four Gorean stone (1200-1600 pounds). Their horns and tooled hides are major exports of the port of Schendi. Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 93 kailiauk, prairie plains ruminants with short stocky bodies, awkward in movement. Their color is tawny with red and brown bars over their haunches. Wide heads bear a trident horn. When resting, they circle with females and young protected within the circle. Book 4: Nomads of Gor, page 2 Karl Whale four fluked baleen whale hunted by the Red Hunters. .Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 36 Kur lit. 'beast'; pl. kurii; a corruption of their name for themselves): a large (8-9') furred mammal having 4 legs which can stand upright or on all fours; each paw has 6 multiply-jointed digits with retractable claws and an opposing thumb so that it can grip; it has 2 rows of teeth; they are incredibly strong and ferocious and are carnivorous, even to eating humans.The Kur are members of an alien race, the Kurii. Book 9: Marauders of Gor, pages 92, 109 Book 17: Savages of Gor, page 21-22 larl, black large feline with viper shaped head, 7feet at shoulder, carnivorous with cat-like slitted eyes; similar to a lion; the females tend to be smaller than males; fur is valued, soft and fine sable coat, both female and males having manes. Book 3: Priest Kings of Gor, page 18 larl, red diurnal feline, tawny-red, has no mane in either male or female Book 3: Priest Kings of Gor, page 18 larl, white seen in icy mountains of the Sardar, largest of the big cats standing 8 feet; upper canines extend below their jaws, very similar to the saber-toothed tiger of earth; long tails with tufted ends Book 3: Priest Kings of Gor, page 22 larl, snow small feline mammal...a small 4-legged mammal, about 10 inches high, weighing between 8 and 12 pounds. 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. Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 74 leech, marsh about four inches long; described as rubbery about 4 inches long; it attaches itself to plants in the marsh or float free in the water, waiting for warm blooded animals. They fasten themselves to their victim to suck blood until, satiated, they detach. They can be removed with fire or salt. They are edible. Book 24: Vagabonds of Gor pages 96-97, 99-100, 102 and 236 leem small arctic rodent, some five to ten ounces in weight; hibernates in the winter; fur is sold by the Red Hunters Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 74 lelt small blindfish with fernlike filaments at either side of the head which are sensory organs; five to seven inches long; white, with long fins, it swims slowly, and is the main food of the salt sharks; inhabits the brine pits such as those of Klima in the Tahari Book 10: Tribesmen of Gor, page 247 lice, tarn marble sized parasites that infest wild tarns Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor, page 142 lit, common bird found in the rainforests of the Schendi area lit, crested rainforest bird of the Schendi area, bright plumage, lives in second layer of rain forest Book 13: Explorers of Gor, pages 236 and 311 lit, needle-tailed bird living in the emergent or highest level of the rainforests in the Schendi area Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 311 lung fish also called gints; small fish found near half-submerged roots of shore trees or sunning on the back of tharlarion mamba large predatory river tharlarion which inhabits the rivers of the rainforests inland of Schendi/ they have long log-like bodies, with short powerful legs and a long snout and long tail; similar to Earth crocodiles Marine saurian fishlike but reptilian, more than twenty feet in length marsh moccasin narrow, dark snake abut five feet long with a small triangular head marsh shark deadly fresh water hunter of the Gorean marshes; similar in shape to the shark of Earth mindar short-winged yellow and red bird of the rainforests inland of Schendi; it digs into the bark of flower trees with a sharp bill for larvae and bugs needle fly also known as sting flies, these originate in the delta and similar places. Its sting is extremely painful but it is usually not dangerous unless inflicted in great numbers. Book 24: Vagabonds of Gor, page 161 needle-tailed lit a bird found in the highest level of the rain forest. Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 311 ost twelve inch tiny snake; bright orange in color; venom causes extremely painful death inside of seconds; the ost of the rainforests inland of Schendi vary - having red with black stripes parsit fish brown striped silvery fish quala three-toed samll mammal having a stiff, brushy mane of black hair; pl. = qualae river shark narrow, black, vicious carnivorous fish with a triangular dorsal fin; inhabits the rivers of Gor salt shark twelve foot or longer carnivorous fish, gills are situated under the jaw; it has several rows of triangular teeth, a sickle like tail, and a sail like dorsal fin; inhabits the brine pits such as those found in the Tahari slee rodent inhabiting the rainforests of Schendi sleen vicious, ferocious feline, can be up to twenty feet long, has six legs and two rows of teeth; there are four types - the prairie sleen, which is tawny - the forest sleen, which is black or brown - the aquatic sea sleen - the white snow sleen; can be domesticated for herding and tracking slime worm long, slow, blind worm which inhabits the caverns of the Nest in the Sardar; scavenges the remains of the Golden Beetle kills sorp shellfish, common especially in the vosk river; similar to an oyster; like an oyster it manufactures pearls Swamp Spiders man-sized arachnids which inhabit the swampland near the city of Ar; they can communicate in human speech by way of the mechanical trqnslators they wear around their abdomens; they spin Cur-Ion Fiber which is used in the textile mills of Ar tabuk type of antelope, yellow in color, has a single horn tarn crested, large hawk like bird, large enough to be ridden; used in battle and in racing tarsk porcine animal akin to the Earth pig, has bristly mane which runs down its spine to the base of the tail; ALSO - COPPER COIN THAT IS THE WHOLE COIN OF LEAST VALUE, EQUALLING 10 TARSK BITS tarsk, giant large cousin of the tarzsk, standing ten hands high at the shoulder tharlarion several types of large carnivorous reptiles, some have been domesticated; it's fat is rendered to provide lamp oil (see also mamba) tharlarion, broad sluggish tharlarion used as draft animals; herbivore tharlarion, high agile tharlarion used as a mount for riding; similar in form to T-rex, having very short, almost useless forelegs; carnivore tharlarion, river extremely large, herbivore, web-footed lizards used by bargemen of the Cartius River to pull barges tharlarion, rock small reptile of the Tahari tibit small, thin legged bird; lives on tiny molluskis; found on the shores of Thassa; similar to the sandpiper toos crab like organism with overlapping plating; inhabits the Nest and scavenges on the discarded fungus spores tufted fisher waterbird which inhabits the rivers of the rainforests inland of Schendi tumit flightless large bird about the size of an Earth ostrich, has an eighteen inch hooked beak; carnivore ul giant, carnivorous pterodactyl urt small silken furred rodent similar to the Earth rat; has three rows of teeth, two tusks, and two horns urt, ground small rodent, lives on the floor of the rainforests inland of Schendi urt, leaf small tree dwelling rodent; has four toes; inhabits the rainforests inland of Schendi; similar to Earth's tree sloth urt, tree small tree climbing rodent found in the rainforests inland of Schendi vart blind bat like flying rodent that is about the size of a small dog vart, jumgle relative of the northern vart, it inhabits the rainforests inland of Schendi verr 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 vulo tawny colored poultry bird, similar to a pigeon; exists in the wild; used for meat and eggs wader, ring-necked type of waterbird which inhabits the rivers of the rainforests inland of Schendi wader, yellow-legged waterbird which inhabits the rivers of the rainforests inland of Schendi wingfish tiny blue salt water fish with four poisonous spines on its dorsal fin; found in the waters off Port Kar; its liver is considered a delicacy in Turia zad large broad winged, black and wite bird; has long, narrow, yellowish, hooked beak; found in the Tahari; they scavenge on carrion; similar to the Earth vulture zad, jumgle cousin of the Tahari zad; found in the rainforest inland of Schendi zadit small, tawny feathered, sharp billed bird of the Tahari; insectivore - feeds on sand flies and other similar insects; they often land on kaiilas and spend long periods of time hunting the sand flies that infest the kailla's hide zeder small, sleen like carnivorous mammal which inhabits the rainforests inland of Schendi especially along the Ua River; grows to c. 2' and weights eight to ten pounds; is diurnal; can swim very well; builds a stick and mud nest in the branches of a tree where it spends most of its time