fish and other aquatic life


bint

a small carnivorous freshwater eel-like fish that lives in the rivers of the rainforests of Schendi...a large number of these fish can completely strip a carcass in minutes...much like the piranha of Earth



dock eels

"Below me the water was swarming with eels. The blood from my back, I realized, running down the blade and dripping into the water, had attracted them." Rogue of Gor (pg 129)

"I was only dimly conscious of the wetness of my back. Then something wet and heavy, slithering; leapt upward out of the water, and splashed back. My leg felt stinging. It had not been able to fasten its jaws on me. I looked downward. Two more heads, tapering, menacing, solid, were emerged from the water, looking up at me. Then, streaking from under the water, suddenly breaking its surface, another body, some four feet in length, about eight or ten pounds in weight, leapt upward...I knew that the fastening of those jaws, in a fair bite, could gouge ounces of flesh from a man's body" Rogue of Gor (pg 130)

the eel is about four foot long, colored in black, often weighing eight to ten pounds...it lives in the shallow waters near docks and wharves and is attracted by blood....it is a very ferocious and swift hunter...able to tear large pieces of flesh off in one bite



eels

a vicious animal which can maim or kill a person within minutes...there are different types...such as the spotted eel, black eel, and the river eel



gint

I recalled, sunning themselves on the exposed roots near the river, tiny fish. They were bulbous eyed and about six inches long, with tiny flipperlike lateral fins. They had both lungs and gills. Their capacity to leave the water, in certain small streams, during dry seasons, enables them to seek other streams, still flowing, or pools. This property also, of course, makes it possible for them to elude marine predators and, on the land, to return to the water in case of danger. Normally they remain quite close to the water. Sometimes they even sun themselves on the backs of resting or napping tharlarion. Should the tharlarion submerge the tiny fish often submerges with it, staying close to it, but away from its jaws. Its proximity to the tharlarion affords it, interestingly, an effective protection against most of its natural predators, in particular the black eel, which will not approach the sinuous reptiles. Similarly the tiny fish can thrive on the scraps from the ravaging jaws of the feeding tharlarion. They will even drive one another away from their local tharlarion, fighting in contests of intraspecific aggression, over the plated territory of the monster's back. The remora fish and the shark have what seem to be, in some respects, a similar relationship. These tiny fish, incidentally, are called gints. Explorers of Gor (pg 299)

a small freshwater fish which makes its home in the rivers of the rainforests inland of Schendi is only about six inches long...it recognized by its bulbous eyes & flipper-like fins...a gint is amphibious, having both lungs & gills...which makes it capable of walking on its pectoral fins...the small scavengers are often found feeding on the left overs of a thalarion kill



giant gint

the larger relative of the gint...it lives in parts of western Gor...it looks much like its cousin but has a dorsal fin with four spines on it...it too, is capable of walking on land by use of pectoral fins



grunt

".....a large game fish that haunts the plankton banks to feed on parsit fish." Maruaders of Gor (pg 59)

this is a large, carnivorous, salt-water fish that inhabits Thassa...much like the shark of Earth..it is attracted to the blood of wounded creatures and feeds on smaller fish



blue grunt

Such blood might attract the bind, a fanged, carnivorous marsh eel, or the predatory, voracious blue grunt, a small, fresh-water variety of the much larger and familiar salt-water grunt of Thassa. The blue grunt is particularly dangerous during the daylight hours preceding its mating periods, when it schools. Its mating periods are synchronized with the phases of Gor's major moon, the full moon reflecting on the surface of the water somehow triggering the mating instinct. During the daylight hours preceding such a moon, as the restless grunts school, they will tear anything edible to pieces which crosses their path. Explorers of Gor (pg 267)

this fish is very similar to the grunt of the Thassa in looks...also it is attracted to the blood of the wounded and kills made by other animals



great speckled grunt

inhabiting the Thassa..this fish is often caught as food for sailors



white bellied grunt

a large fish that feeds on the parsit fish..living in the plankton beds of the North..its eggs are a delicacy



lelt

"The lelt is commonly five to seven inches in length. It is white and long-finned.........Lelts are often attracted to the salt rafts, largely by the vibrations in the water, picked up by their abnormally developed lateral-line protrusions, and their fernlike craneal vibration receptors, from the cones and poles. Too, though they are blind, I think either the light, or the heat, perhaps, from our lamps, draws them. The tiny eyeless heads will thrust from the water, and the fernlike filaments at the side of the head will open and lift, orienting themselves to one or the other of the lamps." Tribesmen of Gor (pg 247)

the lelt is a smaller fish...only ranging between five to seven inches in length...being blind it uses a type of sensory organ which resemble thin fern-like filaments...the lelt lives in brine pits like those near Klima...it is white in color with long fins...a favorite food of the salt shark as it swims quite slowly



marine saurian

a fish-like predator with long, toothed snouts that are silent and aggressive...sailors fear them as they do the long-bodied sharks



parsit

"The men with the net drew it up. In it, twisting and flopping, silverish, striped with brown, squirmed more than a stone of parsit fish. They threw the net to the planking and, with knives, began to slice the heads and tails from the fish." Marauders of Gor (pg 61)

a silver fish...striped with brown which comes from northern waters...a main staple of Torvaldslanders...often it is used raw in the gruel of bond maids...parsit fish are also used in trade when salted or dried.



marsh shark

"Beyond them would be the almost eel-like, long-bodied, nine-gilled Gorean marsh sharks." Raiders of Gor (pg 58)

a long narrow fish...almost eel-like..it has nine gills and inhabits wet marshes



river shark

"I saw the flash of a triangular, black dorsal fin. I screamed. Lana looked out, pointing after it. A river shark, she cried, excitedly." Captive of Gor (pg 79)

this shark lives in the freshwater rivers of Gor...it is very narrow and dark black in color...the dorsal fin is in a triangle shape...river sharks are carnivorous and quite vicious



salt shark

"We saw the broad, blunt head, eyeless, white...On the whitish back, near the high dorsal fin, there was a long scar. Part of the dorsal fin itself was rent, and scarred. At the top of the food chain in the pits, a descendant, dark-adapted, of the terrors of the ancient seas, stood the long-bodied, nine-gilled salt shark." Tribesmen of Gor (pg 249)

usually around twelve feet long..this shark is quite big...it has nine gills, a tail that resembles the shape of a sickle, and a high dorsal fin...it is white colored and blind..it lives in brine pits of salt mines



northern white shark

"A recalcitrant girl may be kept on the oar for hours. There is also, however some danger in this, for sea sleen and the white sharks of the north occasionally attempt to tear such a girl from the oar." Marauders of Gor (pg 66)

the white shark inhabits the Thassa



salamander

"Among the lelts, too, were, here and there, tiny salamanders, they, too, white and blind. Like the lelts, they were, for their size, long-bodied, were capable of long periods of dormancy and possessed a slow metabolism, useful in an environment in which food is not plentiful. Unlike the lelts, they had long stemlike legs." Tribesmen of Gor (pgs 247-248)

a white blind reptile that inhabits the brine pits of salt mines



sea sleen

aquatic mammals that inhabit the polar seas, following the parsit current in search of their main food source, the parsit fish...there are different types... black sleen, brown sleen, tusked sleen, flat-nosed sleen, tufted sea sleen, rogue sea sleen, and the white spotted sea sleen...some remain under the ice year round, mostly dormant but rising every quarter of an Ahn or so to breathe through cracks in the ice...they are a long sleek mammal with flippers and six legs and double fanged jaws can weigh as much as 1000 pounds...and as much as 20 feet in length hunted by the Red Hunters for food and pelt..



snails

"Once the Forkbeard went to her and taught her to check the scoop, with her left hand, for snails, that they not be thrown overboard.Returning to Me, He held one of the snails, whose shell He crushed between His fingers, and sucked out the animal, chewing and swallowing it. He then threw the shell fragments overboard. "They are edible," He said, "and We use them for fish bait." Marauders of Gor (pg 62)

much like the snails on Earth these are small slug-like creatures living inside of thin shells in the waters..often they are trapped with water inside the bilge of a ship....



sorp

"Ho-Hak looked at the man who wore the headband of pearls of the Vosk sorp" Raiders of Gor (pg 21)

"Her hair was blond and straight, tied behind her with a ribbon of blue wool, from the bounding Hurt, dyed in the blood of the Vosk sorp." Marauders of Gor (pgs 1-2)

an oyster like shellfish living in the Vosk river...it can manufacture pearls and its blood it used as a dye by rencers



turtle

It was far morelikely that one of the water lizards of the Vosk or one of the great hook-beaked turtles of the river would seize my body and drag it and the frame under the water, destroying me in the mud below. Tarnsman of Gor (pg 139)

"...turning as it made a swift strike, probably a Vosk carp or marsh turtle." Raiders of Gor (pg 1)

the marsh turtle lives in the Vosk Delta



whale

there are different varieties of whales found on Gor....the baleen whale is a bluish white spotted whale with a blunt fin..the hunjer whale is a toothed whale...the karl whale is a four-fluked baleen whale...all are often hunted by the Red Hunters



wingfish

this very tiny salt water fish is blue in color and has four very poisonous spines on its dorsal fin...mainly found in the water near Port Kar...the small liver of this fish is considered a delicacy...the wingfish is capable of "gliding" through the air..looking much like it is flying...and it also can emit a whistling noise as a mating call



birds


coasting gull

found in Torvaldsland is this broad winged bird with black tips on its wings and tail feathers, similar to the Vosk gull....it's feathers are used on the war arrows of Torvaldsland



fleer

My master looked upward, at the moons. From through the trees, on the other side of the camp, came what I took to be the sound of a bird, the hook-billed, night-crying fleer, which preys on nocturnal forest urts. Slave Girl of Gor (pg 117)

In the level of the emergents there live primarily birds, in particular parrots, long-billed fleers, and needle-tailed lits. Explorers of Gor (pg 311)

The fleer is a large, yellow, long-billed, gregarious, voracious bird of the Barrens. It is sometimes also called the Corn Bird or the Maize Bird. Savages of Gor (pg 246)

this night hunting bird is large...with a hooked bill



prairie fleer

this type of fleer is a yellowish color with very long wings and a sharp bill



gant

" 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." Raiders of Gor (pg 4)

there are a few types of this bird...one..the jungle gant lives in the rainforests of Schendi..another being the marsh gant...it inhabits the marshes of the Vosk Delta...the artic gant...this migratory bird lives in nests on the cliffs of the Hrimgar Mountains in the north..when frozen the eggs can be eaten like apples...it's a duck-like bird with a loud piping cry and long legs



gim

"I heard the throaty warbling, so loud for such a small bird, of the tiny horned gim." Hunters of Gor (pg 106)

these are small owl-like birds...the lang gim mainly eats insects and lives in the Schendi rainforests along with the yellow gim.....the other version of this type of bird...the horned gim...weighs about four ounces and is a purple color...it can be found in the forests of northern Gor



grub borer

an insectivorous bird which inhabits the rainforests inland of Schendi



herlit

the Gorean version of an eagle...it has a wingspan of six to eight feet...this carnivorous bird has yellow feathers tipped with black...inhabits the barrens



hermit

a yellow breasted bird of the Northern forests...it's sharp beak is used to dig into tree..like the Tur tree..in search of larvae



hooked-bill gort

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, and the insectivorous whistling finch, and some unflighted, like the grub borer and lang gim. Explorers of Gor (pg 311)

a carnivorous hunting bird of the rainforests of Schendi...it preys on ground urts



ivory billed woodpecker

a bird found in the lower canopies of the rainforests near Schendi



jard

"Fluttering jards, covering many of the carcasses like gigantic flies, stirred, swarming upward as Inmak passed them, and then returned to their feeding." Beasts of Gor (pg 170)

"Most of the animals we leave for the larts and sleen, and the jards." The jard is a small scavenger. It flies in large flocks. A flock, like flies, can strip the meat from a tabuk in minutes. "Even the jards die, gorged with meat," said the man near us on the platform. Beasts of Gor (pg 149)

this vulture-like bird is rather small with yellow wings..it lives in Schendi



lit

"Behind and about him had swirled a gigantic cloak of yellow and red feathers, from the crested lit and the fruit tindel, brightly plumaged birds of the rain forest." Explorers of Gor (pg 236)

the common lit, the crested lit, and the needle-tailed lit inhabit the rainforests of Schendi



mindar

Kisu pointed overhead. "See the mindar," he said. We looked up and saw a brightly plumaged, short-winged, sharp-billed bird. It was yellow and red. "That is a forest bird," said Kisu. The mindar is adapted for short, rapid flights, almost spurts, its wings beating in sudden flurries, hurrying it from branch to branch, for camouflage in flower trees, and for drilling the bark of such trees for larvae and grubs. Explorers of Gor (pg 282)

this bird has wings that are quite short...yellow and red in color...its beak is very sharp and used to dig into the bark of flowering trees for bugs and larvae



parrot

a bird found in the highest level of the rainforest some varieties are also found in the level of the canopies of the rainforest



schendi gull

inhabiting the area around Schendi on the Thassa, they nest on land at night



tarn

"The Goreans believe, incredibly enough, that the capacity to master a tarn is innate and that some men possess this characteristic and that some do not. One does not learn to master a tarn. It is a matter of blood and spirit, of beast and man, of a relation between two beings which must be immediate, intuitive, spontaneous. It is said that a tarn knows who is a tarnsman and who is not, and that those who are not die in this first meeting. My first impression vas that of a rush of wind and a great snapping sound, as if a giant might be snapping an enormous towel or scarf; then I was cowering, awestricken, in a great winged shadow, and an immense tarn, his talons extended like gigantic steel hooks, his wings sputtering fiercely in the air, hung above me, motionless except for the beating of his wings."Stand clear of the wings," shouted the Older Tarl. I needed no urging. I darted from under the bird. One stroke of those wings would hurl me yards from the top of the cylinder. The tarn dropped to the roof of the cylinder and regarded us with his bright black eyes.Though the tarn, like most birds, is surprisingly light for its size, this primarily having to do with the comparative hollowness of the bones, it is an extremely powerful bird, powerful even beyond what one would expect from such a monster. Whereas large Earth birds, such as the eagle, must, when taking flight from the ground, begin with a running start, the tarn, with its incredible musculature, aided undoubtedly by the somewhat lighter gravity of Gor, can with a spring and a sudden flurry of its giant wings lift both himself and his rider into the air. In Gorean, these .birds are sometimes spoken of as Brothers of the Wind.The plumage of tarns is various, and they are bred for their colors as well as their strength and intelligence. Black tarns are used for night raids, white tarns in winter campaigns, and multicolored, resplendent tarns are bred for warriors who wish to ride proudly, regardless of the lack of camouflage. 'The most common tarn, however, is greenish brown. Disregarding the disproportion in size, the Earth bird which the tarn most closely resembles is the hawk, with the exception that it bas a crest somewhat of the nature of a jay's.Tarns, who are vicious things, are seldom more than half tamed and; like their dim; native earthly counterparts, like hawks, are carnivorous. It is not unknown for a tarn to attack and devour his own rider. They fear nothing but the tarn-goad. They are trained by men of the Caste of Tarn Keepers to respond to it while still young, when they can be fastened by wires to the training perches. Whenever a young bird soars away or refuses obedience in some fashion, he is dragged back to the perch and beaten with the tarn-goad. Rings, comparable to those which are fastened on the legs of the young birds, are worn by the adult birds to reinforce the memory of the hobbling wire and the tarn-goad. Later, of course, the adult birds are not fastened, but the conditioning given them in their. youth usually holds, except when they become abnormally disturbed or have not been able to obtain food. The tarn is one of the two most common mounts of a Gorean warrior; the other is the high thalarion, a species of saddle lizard, used mostly by clans who have never mastered tarns. No one in the City of Cylinders, as far as I knew, maintained tharlarions, though they were supposedly quite common on Gor, particularly in the lower areas-in swampland and on the deserts.The Older Tarl had mounted his tarn, climbing up the five-rung leather mounting ladder which hangs on the left side of the saddle and is pulled up in flight. He fastened himself in the saddle with a broad purple strap. He tossed me a small object which. nearly fell from my fumbling hands. It was a tarn whistle, with its own note, which would summon one tarn, and one tarn only, the mount which was intended for me. Never since the panic of the disoriented compass back in the mountains of New Hampshire had I been so frightened, but this time I refused to allow my fear the fatal inch it required. If I was to die, it would be; if I was not to die, I would not. I smiled to myself in spite of my fear, amused at the remark I had addressed to myself. It sounded like something out of the code of the Warrior, something which, if taken literally, would seem to encourage its believer to take not the slightest or most sane precautions for his safety. I blew a note on the whistle, and it was shrill and different, of a new pitch from that of the Old Tarl.Almost immediately from somewhere, perhaps from a ledge out of sight; rose a fantastic object, another giant tarn, even larger than the first, a glossy sable tarn which circled the cylinder once and then wheeled toward me, landing a few feet away, his talons striking on the roof with a sound like hurled gauntlets. His talons were shod with steel-a war tarn. He raised his curved beak to the sky and screamed, lifting and shaking his wings enormous head turned toward me, and his round, wicked eyes blazed in my direction. The next thing I knew his beak was open; I caught a brief sight of his thin,sharp tongue, as long as a man's arm; darting out and back, and then, snapping at me, he lunged forward, striking at me with that' monstrous beak, and I heard the Older Tarl cry out in horror, "The goad! The goad!" Tarnsman of Gor (pgs 51-53)

The racing tarn, interestingly, is an extremely light bird; two men can lift one; even its beak is norrower and lighter than the beak of a common tarn or war tarn; its wings are commonly broader and shorter than those of other tarns, permitting a swifter take off and providing a capacity for extremely abrupt turns and shifts in flight; they cannot carry a great deal of weight and the riders, as might be expected, are small men, usually of low caste, pugnacious and aggressive. Assassin of Gor (pg 144)

the goad is a tool used for training and while riding tarns...it seems to function much like a cross between a riding crop(for horses) and a cattle prod(for cows) that are used on Earth

"He entered my apartment, carrying a metal rod about two feet long, with a leather loop attached. It had a switch on the handle, which could be set for two positions, on and off, like a simple torch. `What is it?' I asked. `A Tarn Goad,' he replied. He snapped the switch in the barrel to the `on' position and struck the table. It showered sparks in a sudden cascade of yellow light, but left the table unmarked...it had been like a sudden, severe electric charge." Tarnsman of Gor (pg 50)

tibit

a small bird with thin legs which lives on tiny mollusks found on the shores of Thassa



tindel

"Behind and about him had swirled a gigantic cloak of yellow and red feathers, from the crested lit and the fruit tindel, brightly plumaged birds of the rain forest." Explorers of Gor (pg 236)

a bird of the Schendi rainforests with bright plumage



tufted fisher

a water bird which inhabits the rivers of the rainforests inland of Schendi

"...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" Nomads of Gor (pg 2)

the tumit is a large carnivorous bird..close to the size of an ostrich..it is flightless and has a long hooked beak...



ul

"Also, at night, crossing the bright disks of Gor's three moon, might occasionally be seen the silent, predatory shadow of the ul, a giant pterodactyl ranging far from its native swamps in the delta of the Vosk." Outlaw of Gor (pg 26)

a predatory winged thalarion



umbrella bird

this bird lives in the lower canopies of rainforest near Schendi



ushindi fisher

"His head was surmounted by an elaborate headdress, formed largely from the long, white, curling feathers of the Ushindi fisher, a long legged, wading bird." Explorers of Gor (pg 236)

a wading bird with long pale colored feathers



veminium bird

this bird is only described in the books as having a beautiful song



vosk gull

a gull of the Vosk Delta and Vosk River...it has a loud or insistent cry.......which is imitated by the rence people as a means of surreptitious communication at night...it's feathers are used on sheaf arrows...this gull winters on the prairies of the Wagon Peoples and flies north in the spring, when the ice breaks up



vulo

"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." Nomads of Gor (pg 1)

a tawny-colored poultry bird...similar to a pigeon...used for meat and eggs..it can be raised in captivity or exist in the wild



wader

there are two types of waders...the ring-necked and the yellow legged....they both live in the Schendi rainforests



whistling finch

a flighted bird that feeds on insects...found near ground level in the rainforests



zad

One was attacked even by zads, clinging to it and tearing at it with their long, yellowish, slightly curved beaks. These were jungle zads. They are less to be feared than desert zads, I believe, being less aggressive. They do, however, share one ugly habit with the desert zad, that of tearing out the eyes of weakened victims. That serves as a practical guarantee that the victim, usually an animal, will die. Explorers of Gor (pg 415)

I heard, a short time later, wings, the alighting of one or more large birds. Such birds, broad-winged, black and white, from afar, follow the marches to Klima; their beaks, yellowish, narrow, are long and slightly hooked at the end, useful for probing and tearing. The birds scattered, squawking, as a Kaiila sped past. The birds are called zads. Tribesmen of Gor (pg 232)

this large black and white bird with broad wings has a very narrow, long, yellow hooked beak...like the vultures of Earth..they are scavengers of carrion...most live in the Tahari....the jungle zad however, inhabits the Schendi rainforests..it's smaller with yellow wings and yellow curved beaks



zadit

"The zadit is a small, tawny-feathered, sharp-billed bird. It feeds on insects. When sand flies and other insects, emergent after rains, infest kaiila, they frequently light on the animals, and remain for some hours, hunting insects. This relieves the kaiila of the insects but leaves it with numerous small wounds, which are unpleasant and irritating, where the bird had dug insects out of its hide." Tribesmen of Gor (pg 152)

this small bird with tawny colored feathers and a sharp beak of the Tahari feeds on sand flies and other similar insects...they often land a kaiila and spend long periods hunting the sand flies that infest the host animal



insects


arthropod

a creature found in the tunnels of the Nest of the Priest-Kings...it is eight feet long and a yard high with a multi-segmented body and eight legs........it's eyes are on long stalks.



gitch

a biting insect...the description is vague, although it is used near mention of roaches



golden beetle

"It was about the size of a rhinoceros and the first thing I noticed after the glowing eyes were two multiply hooked, tubular, hollow, pincer like extension that met at the tips perhaps a yard beyond its body.They seemed clearly some aberrant mutation of its jaws. Its antennae, unlike those of the Priest-Kings, were very short. They curved and were tipped with a fluff of golden hair. Most strangely perhaps were several long, golden strands, almost a mane, which extended from the creatures head over its domed golden back and fell almost to the floor behind it. The back itself seemed divided into two thick casings which might once, ages before, have been horny wings, but now the tissues had, at the points of touching together, fused in such a way as to form what was for all practical purposes a thick, immobile golden shell." Priest-Kings of Gor (pg 180)

"The exudate which forms on the mane hairs of the Golden Beetle, which had overcome me in the close confines of the tunnel, apparently has a most intense and, to a human mind, almost incomprehensibly compelling effect on the unusually sensitive antennae of the Priest-Kings, luring them helplessly, almost as if hypnotized, to the jaws of the Beetle, who then penetrates their body with its hollow, pincer like jaws and drains its body of fluid." Priest-Kings of Gor (pg 257)

this is a large beetle like insect that lives within caverns below the nest of the Priest Kings in the Sardar mountains..it is known to Them as a "matok"..meaning...one who is not of the nest but allowed to remain in the nest...the beetle feeds of Priest Kings by luring them by way of what is explained as a type of anesthetic gas emission.



hinti

these bugs are small and flea-like...however..unlike fleas they are not parasites



needle fly

also known as sting flies....these originate in the delta and similar places...its sting is extremely painful but it is usually not dangerous unless inflicted in great numbers



red grasshopper

beyond color...this insect is described as weighing around four ounces



rennels

these are poisonous crab-like creatures that are found in the desert



rock spider

an inhabitant of the rainforests lower level this brown or black spider camouflages itself by tucking legs under its body to look like a rock hence its name......it is approximately one foot in diameter and will catch small rodents or birds in its web



sand flies

"Following such rains, great clouds of sand flies appear, wakened from dormancy. These feast on kaiila and men. Normally, flying insects are found only in the vicinity of the oases." Tribesmen of Gor (pg 152)

found near the oases..these flying insects feed off of man and beast



slime worm

"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...it is a Slime Worm..........It scavenges on the kills of the Golden Beetle" Priest Kings of Gor (pgs 105-106)

this too is a matok...the worm is a long slow moving sightless creature that lives below the Nest in the caverns..it feeds on the scraps remaining from the kills of the golden beetle



tarn lice

marble size parasites that feed off of wild tarns



toos

a crab-like organism with overlapping plating...a matok like the slime worm and golden beetle...it inhabits the Nest and scavenges on discarded fungus spores



zarlit fly

"I did see a large, harmless zarlit fly, purple, about two feet long with four translucent wings, spanning about a yard, humming over the surface of the water, then alighting and, on its pad like feet, daintily picking its way across the surface." Raiders of Gor (pg 5)

an insect that resembles a huge dragon fly...it has four wings..pad-like feet..and is purple in color...though large in size it is relatively harmless



reptiles


hith

"After dark, various serpents seek out the road for its warmth, its stones retaining the sun's heat longer than the surrounding countryside. One such serpent was the huge, many-banded Gorean python, the hith." Outlaw of Gor (pg 26)

a very large python-like snake...



marsh moccasin

a narrow dark, poisonous snake about five feet long with a small triangular head........it inhabits the waters of the Vosk Delta



ost

"One to be feared even more perhaps was the tiny ost, a venomous, brilliantly orange reptile little more than a foot in length, whose bite spelled an excruciating death within seconds." Outlaw of Gor (pg 26)

"The banded ost is a variety of ost, a small, customarily brilliantly orange Gorean reptile. The banded ost is yellowish orange and is marked with black rings." Assassin of Gor (pg 335)

a tiny snake..only twelve inches in length..a bright orange colored body...however...the ost of the rainforest in Schendi is colored red with black stripes...the bites of both are extremely poisonous..causing death within a matter of seconds



reptilian marine saurian

reptilian-like scavengers found in the Thassa.....they are more than twenty feet in length....it has a long neck and small head with rows of small teeth...the appendages of this animal are like broad paddles



thalarion

"The tarn is one of the two most common mounts of a Gorean warrior; the other is the high tharlarions, a species of saddle-lizard, used mostly by clans who have never mastered tarns." Tarnsman of Gor (pg 52)

"I saw an Ul, the winged tharlarions, high overhead, beating its lonely way eastward over the marsh." Raiders of Gor (pg 61)

"Scarcely had she broken into the clearing, splashing through the shallow greenish waters near us, than the fearsome head of a wild tharlarions poked through the reeds, its round, shining eyes gleaming with excitement, its vast arc of a mouth slung open." Tarnsman of Gor (pg 84)

"He rode the species of thalarion called the high thalarion, which ran on it's two back feet in great bounding strides. Its cavernous mouth was lined with long, gleaming teeth. Its two small, ridiculously disproportionate forelegs dangled absurdly in front of its body." Tarnsman of Gor (pg 115)

"The high tharlarions, unlike their draft brethren, the slow-moving, four-footed broad tharlarions, were carnivorous." Tarnsman of Gor (pg 125)

"Either you will be thrown alive to the marsh tharlarions or, if you wish, we will kill you first." Raiders of Gor (pg 22)

a type of large lizard...used mainly to pull barges and for transportation when domesticated...the carnivorous high thalarion is used for riding...it has tiny mostly useless fore legs...the mamba is a large predatory thalarion that lives in the Schendi rivers...they have long tails, bodies, and snouts with short, powerful legs...much like the crocodiles of Earth...the rock thalarion is a small reptile of the Tahari with six toes...the broad thalarion is one of the herbivorous types of the lot..it is quite sluggish and used as a draft beast...another variety of thalarion that lives in the rivers is also herbivorous...web-footed...and used by bargemen of the Cartius river to pull barges...the racing thalarion is a type of high thalarion bred and registered for racing...unlike the animals used as cavalry..these are chosen from 'medium class' tharlarions...being smaller and lighter.......the tiny water tharlarions is described as not much more than 'teeth and tail'...this tiny scavenger follows in the wake of the larger water tharlarions and is not more than six inches long...it inhabits the marshes



mammals


anteater

A great spined anteater, more than twenty feet in length, shuffled about the edges of the camp. We saw its long, thin tongue dart in and out of its mouth. The blond-haired barbarian crept closer to me. "It is harmless," I said, "unless you cross its path or disturb it." It lived on the white ants, or termites, of the vicinity, breaking apart their high, towering nests of toughened clay, some of them thirty-five feet in height, with its mighty claws, then darting its four-foot-long tongue, coated with adhesive saliva, among the nest's startled occupants, drawing thousands in a matter of moments into its narrow, tubelike mouth. Explorers of Gor (pg 293)

there are more than six varieties that inhabit the rainforests of Schendi...the great spined anteater grows to twenty feet in length.it feeds on white ants as well as termites by breaking apart their towering nests of hardened clay with mighty claws then darting it's four foot saliva coated tongue to draw thousands of the insects into it's narrow tube like mouth



armored gatch

a marsupial mammal which inhabits the rainforests



bosk

"It is a huge shambling animal, with a thick, humped neck, and long, shaggy hair. It has wide head and tiny red eyes, a temper to match that of a sleen, and two long, wicked horns that reach out from its head and suddenly curve forward to terminate in fearful points. Some of these horns, on the larger animals, measured from tip to tip, exceed the length of two spears." Nomads of Gor (pgs 4-5)

"The bosk is a large, horned, shambling ruminant of the Gorean plains. It is herded below the Gorean equator by the Wagon Peoples, but there are Bosk herds on ranches in the north as well, and peasants often keep some of the animals." Raiders of Gor (pg 26)

a huge, slow moving animal.it has a thick, humped neck and long, shaggy hair...it also has a wide head and tiny red eyes...the bosk is said to have an awful temper...on it's head two long, wicked, curved and pointed horns are mounted....it is for good reason the bosk is called "The Mother of the Wagon Peoples"...the flesh and milk furnish food and drink....shelter is made from it's hides...and clothing from it's tanned and sewn skins...weapons can be made from the leather of it's hump and many tools and implements from it's bone and horns...even the dung is used..it is dried and used for fuel..........the bosk is reverenced and the penalties for it's slaughter without reason are extreme



frevet

The small animal skittered backward, with a sound of claws on the boards. Its eyes gleamed in the reflected light of the lamp. "Generally, too, they do not come this high," said the proprietor. "That is a frevet." The frevet is a small, quick, mammalian insectivore. "We have several in the house," he said. "They control the insects, the beetles and lice, and such." Mercenaries of Gor (pg 276)

a small quick mammal...an insectivore that is kept in some homes for insect control



giani

In the lower branches of the "ground zone" may be found, also, small animals, such as tarsiers, nocturnal jit monkeys, black squirrels, four-toed leaf urts, jungle varts and the prowling, solitary giani, tiny, cat-sized panthers, not dangerous to man. Explorers of Gor (pg 312)

a small panther of solitary habits which spends its life on or near the low branches of ground level in rainforests inland of Schendi



guernon monkey

these animals can be found in the jungle along the Ua river....often they are recognized by their chattering sound



hurt

"Cernus of Ar wore a coarse black robe, woven probably from the wool of the bounding, two legged Hurt, a domesticated marsupial raised in large numbers in the environs of several of Gor's Northern Cities. The Hurt, raised on large, fenced ranches, herded by domesticated sleens and sheered by chained slaves, replaces its wool four times a year." Assassin of Gor (pg 39)

"Her hair was blond and straight, tied behind her with a ribbon of blue wool, from the bounding Hurt, dyed in the blood of the Vosk sorp." Marauders of Gor (pgs 1-2)

"Two peasants walked by, in their rough tunics, knee-length, of the white wool of the Hurt." Tribesmen of Gor (pg 47)

a domesticated marsupial raised on large fenced ranches in several of Gor's northern cities....it is a two legged animal that has thick black wool which is sheared a different times of the year to be used mostly for clothing



jit monkey

In the lower branches of the "ground zone" may be found, also, small animals, such as tarsiers, nocturnal jit monkeys, black squirrels... Explorers of Gor (pg 312)

a simian mammal which inhabits the rainforests..it is nocturnal



desert kaiila

"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." Fighting Slave of Gor (pg 178)

sometimes called a sand kaiila...this omnivorous animal is related to the southern kaiila and similar in most aspects except for pelt color and rearing of young...pelt color is usually tawny and sometimes black...young are suckled for a length of time....men of the Tahari Desert use this as a mount



southern kaiila

"The mount of the Wagon Peoples, unknown in the northern hemispheres of Gor, is the terrifying but beautiful kaiila. It is a silken, carnivorous, lofty creature, graceful, long-necked, smooth gaited. It is viviparous and undoubtedly mammalian.........normally stands about twenty 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." Nomads of Gor (pgs 13-14)

"My mount, a lofty black kaiila, silken and swift, shifted nervously beneath me." Blood Brothers of Gor (pg 7)

barrens kailiauk

"I looked beyond Hci to the beasts, some two to three pasangs away. The kailiauk is a large, lumbering, shaggy, trident-horned ruminant. It has four stomachs and an eight valved heart. It is dangerous, gregarious, small eyed and short tempered. Adult males can stand as high as twenty or twenty five hands at the shoulder and weigh as much as four thousand pounds." Blood Brothers of Gor (pg 10)

descried as a gigantic, dangerous beast...similar to a bosk...standing twenty to twenty-five hands at the shoulder..........weighing as much as four thousand pounds...they migrate across the Barrens in enormous herds...hunted by Red Savages and those who trade in their hides....they have a trident horn...the kailauk is to the Red Savages what the bosk is to the Wagon People



forest kailiauk

beasts with four legs and wide heads...lumbering, stocky ruminants....spoken of as short-trunked and tawny.....males have three trident horns and brown and reddish bars on the haunches....the males of this breed are sixteen hundred to two thousand pounds...and are ten hands at the shoulder....the females are eight hands and weigh twelve hundred to sixteen hundred pounds.....horns and tooled hides of this kailiauk are major exports of the port of Schendi



prairie kailiauk

"Even past me thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-trunked kailiauk, a stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains, tawny, wild, heavy, their haunches marked in red and brown bars, their wide heads bristling with a trident of horns; they had not stood and formed their circle, shes and young within the circle of tridents..." Nomads of Gor (pg 2)

these awkward beasts of the plains are very stocky and possess short trunks....colored in tawny they have red and brown bars across their haunches......their wide heads bear trident horns...instincts cause them to form tight circles around the females and young animals for protection while resting



kur

a big furred mammal having four legs..which can stand upright or on all fours...each paw has six multiple-jointed digits with retractable claws and an opposing thumb...it has two rows of teeth...kur are incredibly strong and ferocious...also they are carnivorous....often regarding humans as food.....the Kur are members of an alien race...the Kurii



larl

"The larl is a predator, clawed and fanged, quite large, often standing seven feet at the shoulder. I think it would be fair to say that it is substantially feline; at any rate its grace and sinuous power remind me of the smaller but similarly jungle cats of my old world. The larl's head is broad, sometimes more than two feet across, and shaped roughly like a triangle, giving its skull something of the cast of a viper's save that of course it is furred and the pupils of the eyes like the cat's, the pelt of the larl is normally a tawny red or sable black. The black larl, which is predominately nocturnal, is maned, both male and female. The red larl, which hunts whenever hungry, regardless of the hour, and is the more common variety, possesses no mane. Females of both varieties tend generally to be slightly smaller than the males, but are quite as aggressive and sometimes even more dangerous, particularly in the late fall and winter of the year when they are likely to be hunting for their cubs. " Priest-Kings of Gor (pgs 18-19)

I have never cared to have an enemy above me, nor did I now, but I told myself that my spear might more easily find a vulnerable spot if the larl leapt downwards toward me than if I were above and had only the base of its neck as my best target. From above I would try to sever the vertebrae. The larl's skull is an even more difficult cast, for its head is almost continually in motion. Moreover, it possesses an unobtrusive bony ridge which runs from its four nasal slits to the beginnings of the backbone. This ridge can be penetrated by the spear but anything less than a perfect cast will result in the weapon's being deflected through the cheek of the animal, inflicting a cruel but unimportant wound. On the other hand if I were under the larl I would have a brief but clean strike at the great, pounding, eight-valved heart that lies in the center of its breast. Priest-Kings of Gor (pg 21)

I was struck with wonder, though I was careful to keep beyond the range of their chains, for I had never seen white larls before. They were gigantic beasts, superb specimens, perhaps eight feet at the shoulder. Their upper canine fangs, like daggers mounted in their jaws, must have been at least a foot in length and extended well below their jaws in the manner of ancient saber-toothed tigers. The four nostril slits of each animal were flared and their great chests lifted and fell with the intensity of their excitement. Their tails, long and tufted at the end, lashed back and forth. Priest-Kings of Gor (pg 22)

a wild feline of Gor.....the larl is a clawed and fanged carnivorous predator...it's a very large animal...often measuring seven feet high at the shoulder...possessing a broad viper shaped head and cat-like slitted pupils...quite alike the lions of Earth...like many other animals..the females tend to be smaller than the males of the species...the black larl is a sable colored....both males and females of this nocturnal variety have manes...the white larl can be found in the icy mountains of the Sardar..........they are the largest of the big cats standing eight feet...upper canines extending below their jaws much like the saber-toothed tiger long ago of Earth...their long tails are tufted at the ends....the other type..the red larl....hunts mainly during the day...it is recognized by its tawny-red fur and the fact that is has no mane



leem

classified as a small arctic rodent about five to ten ounces in weigh....it sleep through the winter...the furs are sold by the Red Hunters



panther

"He had worn at his loins the pelts of the yellow panther." Explorers of Gor (pg 236)

wild felines of Gor...they are mentioned as being in the forests of the North as well as in the jungles of Ushindi...the jungle variety is less dangerous to man than the northern type



porcupine

said to have a long tail..this animal lives in the canopies of the rainforests



quala

Near one of the green stretches I saw what I first thought was a shadow, but as the tarn passed, it scattered into a scampering flock of tiny creatures, probably the small, three-toed mammals called qualae, dun-colored and with a stiff brushy mane of black hair. Tarnsman of Gor (pg 141)

a tiny, three-toed mammal....dun in color with a stiff, brushy mane of black hair



slee

a rodent which inhabits the ground zone of the rainforests inland of Schendi



sleen

"The vicious, six-legged sleen, large-eyed, sinuous, mammalian but resembling a furred, serpentine lizard, was a reliable, indefatigable hunter. He could follow a scent days old with ease, and then, perhaps hundreds of pasangs, and days, later, be unleashed for the sport of the hunters, to tear his victim to pieces." Raiders of Gor (pg 105)

To my terror, then, pushing over my body, to thrust its great jaws and head, so large I could scarcely have put my arms about them, into the hands and arms of my master, was an incredible beast. It had an extremely agile, active, sinuous body, as thick as a rum, and perhaps fourteen or fifteen feet long. It might have weight a thousand pounds. Its broad head was triangular, almost viperlike, but it was furred. This thing was a mammal, or mammalian. Its eyes now had pupils like slits, like those of a cat in sunlight. So quickly then might its adaptive mechanisms have functioned. About its muzzle were gray hairs, grayer than the silvered gray of its fur. It had six legs. Dancer of Gor (pg 160)

"The sleen," he said, "and especially the gray sleen, is Gor's finest tracker. It is a relentless, tenacious tracker. It can follow a scent that is weeks old, for a thousand pasangs. Dancer of Gor (pg 161)

I was silent. I was frightened with those huge jaws, the two rings of fangs, the long, dark tongue, over me. Dancer of Gor (pg 161)

I caught a strange, unpleasant scent, much like a common weasel or ferret, only stronger. In that very instant every sense was alert. I was silent, not moving, seeking the shelter of stillness and immobility. My head turned imperceptibly as I scanned the rocks and bushes about the road. I thought I heard a slight sniffling, a grunt, a small doglike whine. Then nothing. It too had frozen, probably sensing my presence. Most likely it was a sleen, hopefully a young one. I guessed it had not been hunting me or I would not have been likely to have smelled it. It would have approached from upwind. Perhaps I stood thus for six or seven minutes. Then I saw it, on its six , short legs, undulate across the road, like a furred lizard, its pointed, whiskered snout swaying from side to side testing the wind. I breathed a sigh of relief. It was indeed a young sleen, not more than eight feet long, and it lacked the patience of the older animal. Its attack, if it should detect my presence, would be noisy, a whistling rush, a clumsy squealing charge. It glided away into the darkness, perhaps not fully convinced that it was not alone, a young animal ready to neglect and over look those slight traces that can spell the differences between death and survival in Gor's brutal and predatory world. I continued my journey.... I had hardly moved another step when, in a flash of lightning, I saw the sleen, this time a fully grown animal, some nineteen or twenty feet long, charging toward me, some nineteen or twenty feet long, charging toward me, swiftly, noiselessly, its ears straight against its pointed head, its fur slick with rain, its fangs bared, its wide nocturnal eyes bright with the lust of the kill. A strange sound escaped me, an incredible laugh. It was something I could see, could feel, could fight! With an eagerness and a lust that matched that of the beast itself, I rushed forward in the darkness and when I judged its leap I lunged forward with the broad-headed spear of Gor. My arm felt wet and trapped and was raked with fangs and I was spun as the animals squealed with range and pain and rolled on the road. I withdrew my arm from the weak, aimlessly snapping jaws. Another flash of lightning and I saw the spleen on its belly chewing on the shaft of the spear, its wide nocturnal eyes unfocused and glazed. My arm was bloody, but the blood was mostly of the sleen. My arm had almost rammed itself down the throat of the animal following the spear I had flung down its mouth. I moved my arm and fingers. I was unhurt. In the next flash of lightning I saw the sleen was dead. A shudder involuntarily shook me, though I do not know if this was due to the cold and the rain or the sight of the long, furred lizardlike body that lay at my feet. I tried to extract the spear but it was wedged between the ribs of the animal. Coldly I took out my sword and hacked away the head of the beast and jerked the weapon free. Then, as sleen hunters do, for luck, and because I was hungry, I took my sword and cut through the fur of the animal and ate the heart. It is said that only the heart of the mountain larl brings more luck than that of the vicious and cunning sleen. The raw meat, hot with the blood of the animal, nourished me, and I crouched beside my kill on the road to Ko-ro-ba, another predator among predators. I laughed. "Did you, Oh Dark Brother of the Night, think to keep me from Ko-ro-ba?" Outlaw of Gor (pgs 35-36)

there are many varieties of this lizard-like mammal....most which have been domesticated....the forest sleen is long....up to twenty feet...very sinuous and black or brown in color....it resembles a lizard....except it is furred and mammalian...in its attack frenzy it is one of the most dangerous animals on Gor....the gray sleen is said to be Gor's finest tracker........this six legged sleen is a furred mammal with silver gray fur..it has an agile, sinuous body...being thick as a drum and is around fifteen feet long...............the gray sleen has a broad triangular head and a huge jaw with two rows of fangs and a dark tongue...the wide set eyes have slit-like pupils...this breed is relentless and tenacious......it can follow a scent that is weeks old for long distances....the hunting sleen is a hunter of men....it's twenty feet in length and can weigh around eleven hundred pounds....this is a domesticated version of the forest sleen...it is double-fanged and six-footed...the tail tends to switch back and forth, getting rigid...during the hunt...it's ears flatten against it's head just prior to it's final "charge" attack on it's prey.....the prairie sleen is smaller than the forest sleen and tawny colored...they are however..just as unpredictable and mean as the forest type...domesticated prairie sleen are used for hunting and nocturnal herd sleen are used as shepherds and sentinels...they are released from their cages with the falling of darkness...responding only to the voice of their Master...the snow sleen lives is the north and is always white in color...there is also an aquatic type of sleen..the sea sleen



snow lart

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a small mammal with four legs...about ten inches in height....usually weighing between eight and twelve pounds........the snow lart has two stomachs and hunt in summer...it fills the second stomach in the fall to last through winter....it's fur is snowy white and very thick....this animal is considered valuable...selling in Ar for half a silver tarsk.... found in the Polar North.



squirrel





little black animals that live on the ground level of the rainforests

common tabuk

In the lower branches of the "ground zone" may be found, also, small animals, such as tarsiers, nocturnal jit monkeys, black squirrels... Explorers of Gor (pg 312)

The tabuk is the most common Gorean antelope, a small graceful animal, one-horned and yellow, that haunts the Ka-la-na thickets of the planet and occasionally ventures daintily into its meadows in search of berries and salt. It is also one of the favorite kills of a tarn. Outlaw of Gor (pg 126)

found in many areas of Gor..this single-horned antelsope-like animal is a yellow hue...it travels in fast moving herds....haunting the ka-la-na thickets of the planet...sometimes venturing out into the meadows in search of berries and salt.....it's meat is used as food by men and animals....a favorite prey of tarns



northern tabuk

"They were northern tabuk, massive, tawny and swift; many of them ten hands at the shoulder, a quite different animal from the small, yellow-pelted antelope-like quadruped of the south. On the other hand, they too were distinguished by the single horn of the tabuk. On these animals, however, that object, in swirling ivory, was often, at its base, some two and one half inches in diameter, and better than a yard in length. A charging tabuk, because of the swiftness of its reflexes, is quite a dangerous animal." Beasts of Gor (pg 152)

a massive tawny animal...very swift....it is much larger than its smaller southern variety...standing ten hands at the shoulders..northern tabuk have a single spiraling ivory horn...which at its base can be two and one half inches in diameter and over a yard in length...the Red Hunters are linked to the tabuk for sustenance and the devices of daily living much like the Wagon Peoples and the bosk...and the Red Savages and the kailiauk



prairie tabuk

described as tawny and gazelle-like with a single horn......it responds to threat by scurrying away or lying down....this response is useful because of the high grass of the Barrens as most predators depend on vision to detect and locate it's prey



tarsk

an animal much like the pig of Earth...it has four short legs, a flat snout, bristly hair running down the spine to the base of the tail, hooves, and makes a grunting noise...it often roots in the ground for food..in the wild the tarsk is very aggressive..this is a common source of meat...noted as being sold in the markets of Semris..the giant tarsk is the same..only larger in size...this version is hunted with lances from the backs of tarns



urt

"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." Nomads of Gor (pg 125)

Behind the man, in the stern, lay the bloody, white-furred bodies of two canal urts. One would have weight about sixty pounds, and the other, I speculate, about seventy-five or eighty pounds. Savages of Gor (pg 67)

"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 forming the upper ridge of the eye 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." Outlaw of Gor (pgs 85-86)

these are rodents that inhabit most of Gor...they are silken-furred with sharp teeth and two horns and tusks...the canal urt is a rapid moving water mammal living along canals...often found in Port Kar......the forest urt is a nocturnal animal living in the forests...hunted by the hook-billed night crying fleer.......the giant urt is a white animal..fat and sleek... it has three rows of needle-like white teeth and four horns.....a gliding urt can be found in the rainforest canopies of Schendi....while the ground urt is found on the floor of the rainforests....both the leaf urt..and the tree urt inhabit the Schendi rainforest as well...the small tree urt is know to climb trees...the leaf urt is a tiny four-toed rodent that lives within the trees



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." Outlaw of Gor (pg 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." Outlaw of Gor (pg 191)

a carnivorous sharp-toothed mammal that flies in flocks...it is blind and resembles a bat of Earth...the brown vart rest upside down by clinging to tree branches....the jungle vart is related to the northern vart and lives in the Schendi forests



verr

"The verr was a mountain goat indigenous to the Voltai. It was a wild, agile, ill-tempered beast, long-haired and spiral-horned. Among the Voltai crags it would be worth one's life to come within twenty yards of one." Priest Kings of Gor (pg 63)

similar to a mountain goat...this long,spiral-horned animal can be domesticated and used for its fur, milk, and meat....located in the Voltai mountains..it is said to have a bad temper...the animal is quite agile...it's body covered in long hair....



zeder

a small, sleen-like, carnivorous mammal that inhabits the rainforests of Schendi.....especially along the Ua River.....it grows to about two feet in length....weighing eight to ten pounds..........it is diurnal....can swim very well.....and builds a stick and mud nest in the branches of a tree where it spends the nightsnow lart a small mammal with four legs...about ten inches in height....usually weighing between eight and twelve pounds........the snow lart has two stomachs and hunts in summer...it fills the second stomach in the fall to last through winter....it's fur is snowy white and very thick....this animal is considered valuable...selling in Ar for half a silver tarsk.... found in the Polar North.