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Marsh Gant is a small, horned, web-footed aquatic fowl. It is broad-billed and broad-winged. There is also a Jungle Gant. |
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"I heard a bird some forty or fifty yards to my right; it sounded like a marsh gant, a small, horned, web-footed aquatic fowl, broad-billed and broad-winged. Marsh girls, the daughters of Rence growers, sometimes hunt them with throwing sticks." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 4
"The cries of the marsh gants were about us now. I saw that her hunting had been successful. There were four of the birds tied in the stern of the craft." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 10
"...poles of fish, plucked gants, slaughtered tarsks,..." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 41
"Before the feast I had helped the women, cleaning fish and dressing marsh gants, and then, later, turning spits for the roasted tarsks, roasted over rence-root fires, kept on metal pans, elevated above the rence of the islands by metal racks, themselves resting on larger pans." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 44
"I had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and wooden trays of roasted tarsk meat, and roasted gants, threaded on sticks, and rence cakes and porridges, and gourd flagons, many times replenished, of rence beer." Book 6, Raiders Gor, page 44 |
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"Along the river, of course, many other species of birds may be found, such as jungle gants,..." Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 331 |
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A large flightless, carnivorous bird of the Southern Plains. It is about the size of an ostrich and has a long hooked beak about the size of a man's forearm. |
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"...beyond them I saw one of the tumits, a large, flightless bird whose hooked beak, as long as my forearm, attested only too clearly to its gustatory habits; I lifted my shield and grasped the long spear, but it did not turn in my direction; it passed, unaware" Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 2 ~¤~
"It (the bola) was proably developed for hunting the tumit, a huge, flightless carnivorous bird of the plains, but the Wagon Peoples use it also, and well, as a weapon of war." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 24 ~¤~
"I gathered that the best time to hunt tumits, the large flightless, carnivourous birds of the southern plains, was at hand..." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 331 ~¤~ |
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a domesticated pigeon raised for eggs and meat. |
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"She was a peasant, barefoot, her garment little more than coarse sacking. She had been carrying a wicker basket containing vulos, domesticated pigeons raised for eggs and meat." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 1 ~¤~
"...slatted coops for vulos..." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 10 ~¤~
"It is the spiced brain of the Turian vulo," Saphrar was explaining. Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 83 ~¤~
"...cages of flapping vulos..." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 171 ~¤~
"...carried a large wooden cage, made of sticks lashed together, which contained perhaps a dozen white vulos, domesticated pigeons." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 172 ~¤~
"Even from where I stood I could see the pigeons pecking at the grain in reassuring frenzy." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 172 ~¤~
"I smelled roast bosk cooking, and fried vulo. I held the leg of the fried vulo toward one of the girls..." Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page 34 ~¤~
"A fellow walked past me, carrying several vulos, alive, heads down, their feet tied together. He was followed by another fellow, carrying a basket of eggs. Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 40 ~¤~
"vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey" Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 47 ~¤~
"Soon, I smelled the frying of vulo eggs in a large, flat pan" Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor, page 73
"He sat, crossed-legged, behind the low table. On it were hot bread, yellow and fresh, hot black wine, steaming, with its sugars, slices of roast bosk, the scrambled eggs of vulos, pastries with creams and custards." Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 20 ~¤~
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