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Mammals
DIR By: kharma
Date: January 9, 2014, 1:25 am
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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
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Re: Mammals
DIR By: kharma
Date: January 9, 2014, 1:25 am
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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.”
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