Vart
"Perhaps most I dreaded those nights filled with the shrieks of the vart pack, a blind, batlike swarm of flying rodents, each the size of a small dog. They could strip a carcass in a matter of minutes...Moreover, some vart packs were rabid."

Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 26


"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."

Book 3, Priest-Kings of Gor, page 191 ~¤~


"Tyros is a rugged island, with mountains. She is famed for her vart caves, and indeed, on that island, trained varts, batlike creatures, some the size of small dogs, are used as weapons."

Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 139


The Vart is a small, sharp-toothed winged mammal, carnivorous, which commonly flies in flocks."

Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 36 ~¤~


"...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...."

Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 312 ~¤~


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