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"...that once an army of a thousand wagons turned aside because a swarm of rennels,
poisonous, crablike desert insects, did not defend its broken nest..."
Book 2, Nomads of Gor, page 27 ~才
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"We had not walked far when we passed a long, wormlike animal, eyeless, with a small red
mouth, that inched its way along the corridor, hugging the angle between the wall and the
floor. Neither of my two guides paid the animal any attention. Indeed, even I myself, after my experience of the arthropod on the platform and the flat, sluglike beast on its transportation disk in the plaza, was growing accustomed to finding strange creatures in the Nest of the Priest-Kings. 'What is it?' I asked. 'A Matok,' said one of the slaves. 'Yes,' said the other, 'it is in the Nest, but not of the Nest.' 'But I thought I was a Matok,' I said. 'You are,' said one of the slaves. We continued on. 'What do you call it?' I asked. 'Oh,' said one of the slaves, 'It is a Slime Worm.' 'What does it do?' I asked. 'Long ago it functioned in the Nest,' said one of the slaves, 'as a sewerage device, but it has not served that function in many thousands of years.' 'But yet it reamins in the Nest.' 'Of course, said one of the slaves, 'the Priest-Kings are tolerant.' 'Yes,' said the other, 'and they are fond of it, and are themselves creatures of great reverence for tradition.' 'The Slime Worm has earned its place in the Nest,' said the other. 'How does it live?' I asked 'It scavenges on the kills of the Golden Beetle.' 'What does the Golden Beetle kill?' I asked. 'Priest-Kings,' said the second slave." Book 3, Priest-Kings of Gor, pages 104 - 105 ~才
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"On the tenth day, instead of the pan of bread, with the water, Ute thrust a different pan under the door. I screamed. Tiny things, with tiny sounds, moved, crawling over and about one another in it. I screamed again, and thrust it back out. It had been filled with the fat, loathsome green insects which, in the Ka-la-na thicket, Ute had told we were edible. Indeed, she had eaten them. 'they are nourishing,' she had said. I screamed hysterically, pounding at the sides of the slave box. The second day, too, I thrust the pan away, almost vomiting. I saw Ute, through the slit, take one of the insects and bite it in two, eating it. Then she turned away. I resolved to starve myself. The third day, almost vomiting, I ate five of them. They, such insects, and water, were my food for the remainder of my time in the tiny slave box."
Book 7, Captive of Gor, page 315 ~才
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"We had brought certain goods with us from the canoe to our camp. 'Oh!' cried the girl, startled. A grasshopper, red, the size of a horned gim, a small, owllike bird, some four ounces in weight, common in the northern latitudes, had leaped near the fire, and disappeared into the brush." Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 293 ~才
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"In the second level, that of the canopies,..... and the usual varieties of insects, ants, centipedes, scorpions, beetles and flies, and so on."
Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 311 ~才
"He had thrown to the forest floor a protion of the slain tarsk. I watched the blck, segmented bodies of some fifteen or twenty ants, some two hundred yards in advance of the column, approach the meat. Their antennae were lifted. They had seemed tense, excited. They were some two inches in length. Their bite, and that of their fellows, is vicious and extremely painful, but it is not poisonous." Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 401 ~才
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"Also in the ground zone are varieties of snake, such as the ost and hith, and numerous species of insects. The rock spider has been mentioned, and termites also. Termites, incidentally, are extremely important to the ecology of the forest. In their feeding they break down and destroy the branches and trunks of fallen trees. The termite "dust", thereafter, by the action of bacteria, is reduced to humus, and the humus to nitrogen and mineral materials."
Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 312 ~才
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