Urts

"I smelled the wet fur of the animal, a rodent of some kind, the smells of its den, the soiled straw. For some time the animal, moving backwards, its prey seized in its jaw, scrambled through the tunnel. It dragged me in a series of quick, vicious jerks through the tunnel, scraping me on its stone walls, lacerating me, ripping my tunic. At last it dragged me into a round, globelike space, lit by two torches in iron racks, which were set into the fitted stone walls. I heard a voice of command, loud, harsh. The animal squealed in displeasure. I heard the crack of a whip and the same command, more forcibly uttered. Reluctantly the animal released its grip and backed away, crouching down, watching me with its long, oblique blazing eyes, like slits of molten gold in the torchlight. It was a giant urt, fat, sleek and white; it bared it 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 forimg the upper ridge of the eys socket, protruded over those gleaming eyes that seemed to feast themselves upon me, as it waiting the permission of the keeper to hurl itself on its feeding trough. Its fat body trembled with anticipation. The whip cracked again, and another command was uttered, and the animal; its long hairless tail lashing in frustration, slunk into another tunnel. An iron gate, consisting of bars, fell behind it." Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, pages 85 - 86 ~才 "The urt is a loathsome, horned Gorean rodent; some are quite large, the size of wolves or ponies, but most are very small, tiny enough to be held in the palm of one hand." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 125 ~才 "I heard one of the giant canal urts twist in the water somewhere beneath me." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 119 "The giant urts, silken and blazing-eyed, living mostly on the garbage in the canals, are not stranger to bodies, both living and dead, found cast into their waters." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 121 "Over her shoulders she had two small, furred animals, hideous forest urts, about the size of cats,..." Book 7, Captive of Gor, page 237 ~才 "Their catch, returned to the Tesephone, in a cage, covered with canvas, carried on the back of Thurnus, had been six, rather large forest urts, about the size of tiny dogs." Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page 38 "That scent, I knew, a distillation of a hundred flowers, nurtured like a priceless wine, was a secret guarded by the perfumers of Ar. It contained as well the separated oil of the Thentis needle tree; an extract from the glands of the Cartius river urt; and a preparation formed from a disease calculus scraped from the intestines of the rare Hunjer Long Whale, the result of the inadequate digestion of cuttlefish. Fortunately, too, this calculus is sometimes found free in the sea, expelled with feces..." Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 114 "On the other hand, should a bird, such as a mindar or parrot, or a small animal, such as a leaf urt or tiny tarsk, become entangled in the net the spider swiftly emergers." Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 294 ~才 "...We may perhaps, somewhat loosely, speak of this first zone as the 'floor,' or, better, 'ground zone,' of the rain forest. In the level of the emergents there live primarily birds, in particular parrots, long-billed fleers, and needle-tailed lits. Monkeys and tree urts, and snakes and insects, however, can also be found in this highest level..." Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 311 ~才 "..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. In the lower portion of the canopies, too, can be found heavier birds, such as the ivory-billed woodpecker and the umbrella bird. Guernon monkeys, too, usually inhabit this level. 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,..." Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 311 ~才 "...in the low branches of the 'ground zone' may be found also small animals, such as tasiers, nocturnal jit monkeys, black squirrels, four toed leaf urts, jungle varts...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..." Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 312 ~才

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