Kaiila

"The mount of the Wagon Peoples, unknown in the northern hemispheres of Gor, is the terrifying but beautiful kaiila. It is a silken, carnivourous, 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. It is an instinct of the mother, sensing the birth, to deliver the young animal in the vicinity of game. I supposed, with the domesticated kaiila, a bound verr or a prisoner might be cast to the newborn animal. The kaiila, once it eats its fill, does not touch food for several days. The kaiila is extremely agile and can easily outmaneuver the slower, more ponderous high tharlarion. It requires less food, of course, than the tarn. A kaiila, which normally stands about tweny to twenty-two hands at the shoulder, can cover as much as six hundred pasangs in a single day's riding. The head of the kaiila bears two large eyes, one on each side, but these eyes are triply lidded probably an adaptation to the environment which occasionally is wracked by severe storms of wind and dust; the adaptation, actually a transparent third lid, permits the animal to move as it wishes under conditions that force other prairie animals to back into the wind, or like the sleen, to burrow into the ground." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, pages 13 - 14 ~才 "I saw the kaiila tense, almost like larls, their flanks quivering, their large eyes intent upon me. I saw one of the long, triangular tongues dart out and back. Their long ears were laid back against the fierce, silken heads." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 15 ~才 "...beneath the clawed paws of four squealing, snorting kaiila.... ...the enraged, thundering kaiila, hissing and squealing, at a touch of the control straps, arrested their fierce charge, stopping themselves, tearing into the deep turf with suddenly emergent claws. The children of the Wagon peoples are taught the saddle of the kaiila before the can walk." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 17 ~才 "I observed the rider; I saw him smile; I saw the kaiila rear up; I saw the lance fall into position; he lanced in sport; I faced him in war.." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 297 ~才 "I then saw the kaiila pass. It was lofty, stately, fanged and silken. I had heard of such beasts, but this was the first time I had seen. It was yellow, with flowing hair. Its rider was mounted in a high, purple saddle, with knives in the saddle sheaths..." Book 14, Fighting Slave of Gor, page 178 ~才 " 'How many kaiila do you have?' he asked. 'Two,' I said, one to ride, another for the trade goods.' 'That is fortunate,' said the fellow. 'No more than two kaiila are to be brought by any single white man into the Barrens. Too, no party of white men in the Barrens is permitted to bring in more than ten kaiila.' 'These are rules in Kailiauk?' I asked. 'They are rules of the red savages,' he said. 'Then,' said I, 'only small groups of white men could enter the Barrens, or else they would be on foot, at the mercy of the inhabitants of the area.' 'Precisely,' said the fellow.' " Book 17, Savages of Gor, page 137 "My mount, a lofty black kaiila, silken and swift, shifted nervously beneath me." Book 18, Blood Brothers of Gor, page 7

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