The fleer is a large, yellow, long-billed, gregarious, voracious birds of the Barres. It is sometimes also called the Cord Bird or the Maize Bird.
(Savages of Gor page 246)
Along the river, of course, many other spices of birds may be found, such as jungle gants, tufted fishers and ring-necked and yellow-legged waders.
(Explorers of Gor page 311)
I stepped aside to let a young girl pass, who carried two baskets of eggs, those of the migratory artic gants. They nest in the mountains of the Hrimgar and in steep, rocky outcroppings, called bird cliffs, found here and there jutting out of the tundra. The bird cliffs doubtless bear some geological relatation to Hrimgar chains. When such eggs are frozen they are eaten like apples.
(Beasts of Gor page 196)
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 page 4)
In the ground zone, and on the ground itself, are certain birds, some flighted, like the hooked-billed gort, which preys largely on rodents, such as ground urts, and the insectivorous whistling finch, and some unflighted, like the grubborer and lang girm.
(Explorers of Gor page 311)
Its feathers were five inches long, set in the shaft on three sides, feathers of the black-tipped coasting gull, a broad-winged bird, with black tips on its wings and tail feathers, similar to the Vosk gull.
(Maruaders of Gor page 235)
Somewhere, far off, but carrying through the forest, was the rapid,staccato slap of the sharp beak of the yellow-breasted hermit bird, pounding into the reddish bark of the Tur tree, hunting for larvae.
(Hunters of Gor page 106)
It was peeled Ka-la-na wood and, from its top, there dangled two long, narrow, yellow, black-tipped feathers, from the tail of the taloned Herlit, a large, broad-winged, carnivorous bird, sometimes in Gorean called the Sun Striker, or, more literally, though in clumsier English, Out-of-the-sun-it-strikes, presumably from its habit of managing its decent and strike on prey, like the tarn, with the sun above and behind it.
(Savages of Gor page 143)
In the level of the emergents there live primarily birds, in particular parrots, long-billed fleers, and needle-tailed lits.
(Explorers of Gor page 311)
We looked up and saw a brightly plumaged, short-winged, sharp-billed bird. It was yellow and red. "Thats a forest bird", said Kisu. The minder is adapted for short, rapid flights, almost spurts, its winged 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.
(Explorer of Gor page 282)
In the second level, that of the canopies, is found an incredible variety of birds, warblers, finches, minders, the crested lit, the fruit trndel,the yellow gim, tanagers, some varieties of parrots, and many more.
(Explorers of Gor page 311)
I heard the cry of sea birds, broad-winged gulls and the small, stick-legged tibits, pecking in the sandsfor tiny molluscs.
(Hunters of Gor page 247)
Perhaps in one of these times, due to no fault of Mistress he was charmed by her voice, as by the songs of the veminium bird.
(Maruaders of Gor page 363)
She was a peasant, barefoot, her garmet litle morethan coarse sacking. She had been carrying a wicker basket containing vulos domesticated pigeons raised for eggs and meat.
(Nomads of Gor page 1)
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 of 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.
(Tribemen of Gor page 232)
One was attacked even by zads, clinging to it and tearing at it with there long yellowish, slightly curved beaks. These were jungle zads. They are less to be feared then desert zads, I believe, being less aggressive. They do, however, share one ugly habit iwth the desert zads, that of tearing out of eyesof weakened victims. That serves as a practical guarantee that the victim, usually an animal, will die.
(Explorer of Gor page 415)
The zadit is small, tawny-feathered, sharp-billed bird It feeds on insects. When sand flies and other insects, emergent after rains, infest kaiila, they frequentlyland 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 birds had dug insects out of its hide.
(Tribesmen of Gor page 152)
It lived on the white ants, or termites, of the vicinity, breaking apart their high, towering nests of toughened clay, some of them thrity-five feet in height, with its mightly claws, then arting its four-foot long tongue, coated iwth adhesive saliva, among the nest's startled occupants, drawing thousands in a matter of moments into its narrow, tube like mouth.
(Explorers of Gor page 293)
On the floor itself are also found serveral varieties of animal life, in particular marsupials, such as the armored gatch, and rodents, such as slees and ground urts.
(Explorers of Gor page 312)
It is a huge shambling animal, with a thick, humped neck, and long, shaggy hair. It has a 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, exceeds the length of two spears.
(Nomads of Gor page 4 and 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 page 26)
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, beetles and lice, and such".
(Mercinaries of Gor page 276)
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, aolitary giani, tiny, cat-sized panthers, not dangerous to man.
(Explorers of Gor page 312)
We could hear the chattering of the guernon monkeys about.
(Explorers of Gor page 307)
Two peasants walked by, in their rough tunics, knee-length, of the white wool of the hurt.
(Tribesmen of Gor page 47)
I wore a white robe, woven of the wool of the Hurt, imported from distant Ar.
(Hunters of Gor page 7)
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.
(Maruaders of Gor page 1 and 2)
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 page 312)
Alarge reptile looking animal, the mount of the Wagon Peoples, unknown in the norhter hemispheres of Gor, is the terrifyling but beautiful kaiila. It is a silken, carnivorious, lofty creature, graceful, long-necked, smooth gaited. It is viviparous and undoubtedly mammalian, though there is no suckling of the young, the kaiila is extremely agile, normally stands about twenty to twenty-two hands at the shoulder, can cover as much as six hundred pasangs in a single days riding. The head of the kaiila bears two large eyes, one on each side, but occasionally is wracked by severe storms of wind and dust; the adaption, usually a transparent third lid, permits the animal to move as it wishes under conditions that force other praire animals to back into the wind, or like the sleen, to burro into the ground.
(Nomads of Gor page 13 and 14)
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 one. It was yellow with flowing hair. Its rider was mounted in a high, purple sadle, with knives in the saddle sheaths.
(Fighting Slave of Gor page 178)
It is difficult to make clear to those who are not intimately acquainted iwth such, the meaning of Pte, or Kaiiliauk, to the Red Savages. It is regarded by them with reverence and affection. It is the central phenomenon in their life, and much of their life revloves around it. The meer thought of Kaiiliauk can inspire awe in them, and pleasure and excitment. More to them than meat for the stomache and clothes for the back is the kaiiliauk to them; too, it is a mystery and meaning for them; it is heavy with medicine; it is danger; it is sport; it is a challange; and at dawn with a lance or bow in one's hand, and a swift eager kaiilia between one's knees, it is a joy to the heart.
(Blood brothers of Gor page 8)
Another plains bison-type animal. The description makes it seem related to the bosk, though with more horns. I looked beyond Hci to the beasts, some two or three pagangs away. The kaiiliauk is a large, lumbering, shaggy, trident-horned ruminant It has four stomaches and an eight valved heart. It is dangerous, gregarious, smalleyed and short tempered. Adult males can stand as high as twenty to twenty-five hands at the shoulder and weigh as much as four thousand pounds.
(Blood Brothers of Gor page 10)
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 reminds me of the smaller but similar jungle cats of my old world. The lar's head is broad, sometimes more than two feet across, and shaped roughly like a triangle, giving its skull something like the cast of a viper's save that of course it is furred and the pupils of the eyeslike the cat's. The pelt of the larl is normally a tawny red or sable black. The black larl which hunts whenever hungry, regardless of the hour, and is the more common variety, posses no mane.
(Priest-Kings of Gor page 18)
The black larl,, which is predominantly nocturnal, is manned, both male and female. The red larl which hunts whenever it is hungry, regardless of the hour, and is the more common variety, posseses no mane. Females of both varieties tend to be slightly smaller then the males, but are quite as aggressive and sometimes even more dangerous, particuarly in the late fall and winter of the year when they are likely to be hunting for their cubs.
(Priest-Kings of Gor page 18)
None of the Men Below the Mountains, the mortals, had ever succeeded in taming a larl. Even larl cubs when found and raised by men would, on reaching its majority, on some night, in a sudden burst of atavstic fury slay their masters and under the three hurtling moons of Gor, lope from the dwellings of men, driven by what instincts I know not, to seek the mountains where they were born.
(Priest-Kings of Gor page 19)
I was struck with wonder, though I was careful to keep beyond the range of their chains, for I had never seen a white larl 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 a manner of ancient sabre-tooth tigers. The four nostils slits of each animal were flared and their great chests lifted and fell with the intensity of their excitment. Their tails, long and tufted at the end, lashed back and forth.
(Priest-Kings of Gor page 22)
On the jungle floor, as well, are found jungle larl and jungle panthers, of diverse kinds, and many smaller cat like predators
(Explorers of Gor page 312)
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-toes mammals called qualae,, dun-coloured and with a stiff, brush mane of black hair.
(Tarnsman of Gor page 141)
It is at night that the sleen hunts, that six-legged, long-bodied mammilian carnivore, almost as much a snake as an animal.
(Outlaws of Gor page 26)
I caught a strange, unpleasant scent, much like a common weasel or ferret, only stronger. In that istance every scent was alert. I thought I heard a slight sniffling, a grunt, a small dog like whine. Most likely it was a sleen, hopefully a young one. Then I saw it, it was on six short legs, undulate across the road, like a furred lizard, its pointed, whiskered snout swaying from side to side testing the wind. It was indeed a young sleen, not more than eight feet long.
(Outlaws of Gor page 34 and 35)
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 passangs, and days, later, be unleashed for the sport of the hunters, to tear his victim to pieces.
(Raiders of Gor page 105)
There are many varieties of sleen, and most varities can be. to one extent or another, domesticated. Two most common sorts of trained sleens are the smaller, twany prairie sleen, and the large, brown or black forest sleen, sometimes attaining a length of twenty feet. In the north, I am told the snow sleen had been domesticated. The sleen is a dangerous and fairly common animal on Gor, which has adapted itself to a variety of environments. There is even an aquatic variety, called the sea sleen, which is one of the swiftest and most dreaded beasts of the sea.
(Slave Girl of Gor page 185)
Sleen are used for a multitude of purposes on Gor, but most commonly they are used for herding, tracking, guarding and patrolling. The verr and the bosk are the most common animals herded; tubuk and slaves girls are the most common animals tracked; the uses to which the sleen is put to guarding and patrolling are innumerable; it is used to secure boarders, to prowl walls and protect camps; it may run loose in the streets after curfews.
(Slave Girl of Gor page 186)
The bird resembles a hawks of Earth, only much larger. The birds are vicious and fierce. They are carnivorous. 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 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 wings lift both himslef 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 used for night raids, white tarns in winter campaigns, and multicoloured, 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 dispropportion in size, the Earth bird which the tarn most closely resembles is the hawk, with the exception that it has a crest somewhat of the nature of a jay's diminutive earthly counterparts, the hawks, are carnivorous. It is not unknown for a tarn to attack and devour his own rider. They fear nothing but the tarngoad.
(Tarnsmen of Gor page 51 and 52)
During the day I freed my tarn to allow him to feed as he would. They are diurnal hunters and eat only what they catch themselves, usually one of the fleet Gorean antelopes or a wild bull, taken on the run and lifted in the monstrous talons to a high place, where it is torn to pieces and devoured.
(Tarnsmen of Gor page 73)
I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot; my mouth watered for a tabuk steak, or perhaps, if I were lucky, a slice of roast tabuk, the formiidable six-tusked wild boar of Gor's temperate forests.
(Outlaws of Gor page 76)
The tubuk 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 the tarn.
(Outlaws of Gor page 126)
Massive, twany and swift is much larger than its smaller souther variety; standing ten hands at the shoulders. They has single spiralling ivory horn, which at its base can be 2 1/2 inches in diameter and over a yard in length. The Red Hunters are tied to the tabuk for substenance and the devices of daily living much like the Wagon Peoples and the bosk, and the Red Savages and the kaiiliauk.
(Beasts of Gor page 152)
At the end of the wall, Inmak wept, seeing the strewn feilds of slaughtered tabuk. The fur and hide of the tabuk provides the Red Savages not only with clothing, but it can also be used for blankets, sleeping bags, and other articles. Too, they may be used for buckets and tents, and for kayaks, the light narrowing canoes of skins from which sea mammals may be sought. Lashings, harpoon lines, cords and threads can be fashioned from its sinews. Carved, the bone and horn of the animal can function as arrow points, needles, thimbles, chisels, wedges, and knives. It's fat and bone marrow can be used as fuel. Too, almost all of the animal is edible.
(Beasts of Gor page 169 and 170)
It was a giant urt, fat, sleek and white; it bated its three rows of needle like white teeth to 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 sockets, protruded over those gleaming eyes that seemed to feast themselves upon me.
(Outlaws of Gor page 86)
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's hand.
(Nomads of Gor page 125)
Perhaps most I dreaded those nights filled with the shrieks of the vart packs, a blind, bat like 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.
(Outlaws 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.
(Priest-Kings of Gor page 191)
Kaiilla and verr are found at the oasis, but not in great numbers. The herds of these animals are found in the desert.. They are kept by nomads, who move them from one area of verr grass to another, or from one water hole to another.
(Tribesmen of Gor page 37)
The verr is a mountain goat indigenous to the Voltai. It was a wild, agile, ill-tempered beasts, long-haired and spiral-horned. Among the Voltia crags it would be worth one's life to come within twenty yards of one.
(Preist-Kings of Gor page 63)
There is, however, a sleen like animal, though much smaller, about two feet in length and some eight to ten pounds in weight, the zedar, which frequents the Ua and her tributaries. It knifes through the water by day and, at night, returns to its nest, built from sticks and mud in the branches of a tree overlooking the water.
(Explorers of Gor page 312)
Such blood might attract the blind, a fanged,, carnivorous marsh eel, or the predatory, voracious blue grunt, a small, fresh-water variety of the much larger and familiar slant-water grunt of Thassa.
(Explorers of Gor page 267)
"Now, this",, Saphrar, the merchant was telling me, "is the braised liver of the blue-four-spired Cosian wingfish". This fish is tiny, delicate fish, blue, about the size of a tarn disk when curled in one's hand; it has three or four slender spines on its dorsal fin, which are poisonous, it is capable of hurling itself from the water and, for brief distances, on its stiff pectoral fins, gliding through the air, usually to evade the smaller sea-tharlarions, which seem to be immune to the poison of the spines. This fish is also some times referred to as the songfish because, as a portion of its courtship rituals, the males and females thrust their heads from the water and utter a sort of whistling sound. The blue four-spired wingfish is found only in the waters of Cos. Larger varieties are found farther out to sea. The small blue fish is regarded as a great delicacy, and its liver as the delicacy of delicacies.
(Nomands of Gor page 84 and 85)
Near her, one night, lying off her shore, silently, I heard the mating whistles of the tiny, lovely Cosian wingfish. This is a small, delicate fish; it has three or four slender spines in its dorsal fin, which are poisonous. It is called the wingfish because it can, on its stiff pectoral fins, for short distances, glide through the air, usually in an attempt to flee the small sea-tharlarion, who are immune to the poisons of the spines. It is also called the songfish because, in their courtship rituals, males and females thrust their heads from the water, uttering a kind of whistle. Their lives are regaded as a delicacy.
(Raiders of Gor page 139)
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 page 129)
I was only dimly conscious of the wetness on my back. Then something wet and heavy, slithering; lept 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, lept upward. I knew that the fastening of those jaws, in a fair bite, could gourge ounces of flesh from a man's body.
(Rogue of Gor page 130)
When He stood in about a foot of water, among the pilings, near the next wharf, he struck down madly at his legs with his left hand, striking two dock eels from his calf.
(Rogue of Gor page 154)
The dock eels, black, about four feet long, are tenacious creatures. They had not relinquished their hold on the flesh in their jaws when they had been forcibly struch away from the leg, back into the water.
(Rogue of Gor page 154 and 155)
Many estates, particularly country estates, have pools in which fish are kept. Some of these pools contain voracious eels, of barbarious sorts, river eels, black eels, the spotted eel, and such, which are Gorean delicacies. Needless to say a bound slave, cast into such a pool will be eaten alive.
(Magicians of Gor page 428)
I recalled, sunning themselves on the exsposed roots near the river, tiny fish. They were bulbous eyed and about six inches long, with tiny flippers like 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 prdators 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, intersetinly, 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 scraps from the ravaging jaws of the feeding tharlarion. They will even drive one another away from their local tharlarion, fighting in contests of intraspecic 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 page 299)
The creature which had surfaced near us, perhaps ten feet in length, and a thousand pounds in weight, was scaled and had large, bulging eyes. It had gills, but it, too, gulped air, as it had regarded us. It was similar to the tiny lung fish I has seen earlier on the river, those little creatures clinging to the half-submerged roots of shore trees, and, as often as not, sunning themselves on the backs of tharlarion, those tiny fish called gints. Its pectoral fins were large and fleshy.
(Explorers of Gor page 384)
Three other men of the Folkbeard attended to fishing, two with a net, sweeping it along the side of the serpent, for parsit fish, and the third, near the stem, with a hook and line, baited with vulo liver, for the white-bellied grunt, a large fish which haunts the plankton banks to feed on parsit fish.
(Maruaders of Gor page 59)
Before each guest there were tiny slices of tospit and larma, small pastries, and in a tiny golden cup, with a small golden spoon, the clustered, black, tiny eggs of the white grunt.
(Fighting Slave of Gor page 275 and 276)
Such blood might attract the blind, 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 preceeding such a moon, as the restless grunts school, they will tear anything edible to pieces which crosses their path.
(Explorers of Gor page 267)
Lelts are often attracted to the salt rafts, largely by the vibrations in the water, picked up by their abmormally developed lateral-line protrusions, and their fernlike carnial vibration receptos, from the cones and poles. To, 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. The lelt is commonly five to seven inches in length. It is white, and long-finned. It swims slowly and smoothly, its fins moving the water very little, which apparently contributes to its own concealment in a blind enviroment and makes it easier to detect the vibrations of its prey, and of several varieties of tiny segmented creatures, perdominantly isopods. The brain of the lelt is interesting, containing an usually developed odor-perception centre and two vibration-reception centres. Its organs of balance, or hidden 'ear', is also usually large, and is connected with a usually large balances centre in its brain. Its visual centre, on the other hand, is stunted and undeveloped, a remnant, a vague genetic memory of an organ long discarded in its evolution.
(Tribesmen of Gor page 247)
I had seen, yesterday, the long neck of the marine saurian lift from the waters of gleaming Thassa. It had a small head, and rows of small teeth. Its appendages are like broad paddles. Then it had lowered its head and disappeared. Such beasts, in spite of their frightening appearance, are apparently harmless to me. They can only take bits of garbage and small fish. Certain related species thrive on crustaceans found among aquatic flora. Further, such beasts are rare. Some sailors, reportedly, have never seen one. Far more common, and dangerous, are certain fishlike marine saurian, with long, toothed snouts; they are silent and aggressive, and sailors fear them as they do the long-bodied sharks.
(Slave Girl of Gor page 360)
Other girls had prepared the repast, which, for the war camp, was sumptuous indeed, containing even oysters from the delta of the Vosk, a portion of a plunder of a tarn caravan of Ar, such delicacies having been intended for the very table of Marlenus, the Ubar of that great city itself.
(Captive of Gor page 301)
The men of Trovoldsland are skilled with their hands. Trade to the south, of course is largely in furs acquired from Trovoldsland, and in barrels of smoked, dried parsit fish.
(Maruaders of Gor page 28)
The men with the net drew it up. In it, twisting and flopping, silverfish, 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.
(Maruaders of Gor page 61)
The men who had fished with the net had now cleaned the catch of parsit fish, and chopped the cleaned, boned, silverfish bodies into pieces, a quarter inch in width. Another of the bond-maid was then freed to mix the bond-maid gruel, mixing fresh water with Sa-Tarna meal, and then stirring in the raw fish.
(Maruaders fo Gor page 63 and 64).
I saw a sudden movement in the water. Something, with a twist of its great spine had suddenly darted from the water under the pier and entered the current of Laurius. I saw the flash of a triangular, black dorsal fin. I screamed. Lara looked out, pointing after it, 'A river shark', she cried excitedly.
(Captive of Gor page 79)
Beyond them would be the almost eel-like, long-bodied, nine-gilled Gorean marsh sharks.
(Raiders of Gor page 58)
"Look!" I cried. This time it was close, surfacing not ten feet from the raft. We saw the broad, blunt head, eyeless, white. Then it submerged, with a twist of the long spine and tail. The steerman was white. "It is the Old One", he said. On the whitish back, near the high dorsal fin, there was a long scar. Part of the dorsal fin itself was rent, and scarred. There was lance marks. "He has come back", said one of the men. The waters were still. 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 page 251)
He sat upon a giant shell of the Vosk sorp, as on a sort of throne, which for these people, I gather it was.
(Raiders of Gor page 14)
Her hair was blond and straight, tied beyond her with a ribbon of blue wool, from the bounding Hurt, dyed in the blood of the Vosk sorp.
(Marauders of Gor page 1 and 2)
turning as it made a swift strike, probably a Vosk carp or marsh turtle.
(Raiders of Gor page 1)
One such serpent was the huge, many-banded Gorean python, the Hith.
(Outlaws of Gor page 26)
The word 'Mamba' in most of the river dialects does not refer to a venomous reptile as might be expected, give its meaning in English, but, interestingly, is applied rather generally to most types of predatory river tharlarion. The Mamba people were, so to speak, the Tharlarion people. The Mamba people ate human flesh. So, too, does the tharlarion. It is thus, doubtless, that the people obtain their name.
(Explorers of Gor page 393)
Narrow, dark, poisonous snake about five feet long with a small triangluar head. It inhabits the waters of the Vosk Delta.
(Renegades of Gor page 267)
turning it made a swift strike, probably a Vosk carp or marsh turtle.
(Raiders of Gor page 1)
One to be feared even more perhaps was the tiny ost, a venomous, brilliantly orange reptile little more than a foot in length, who's bite spelled an excruciating death within seconds.
(Outlaws of Gor page 26)
The banded ost is a variety of ost, a small, customarily brilliantly orange Gorean reptile. The branded ost is yellowish orange and is marked with black rings.
(Assassin of Gor page 335)
A snake of the rainforests inland of Schendi that is identical by its red with black stripes.
(Explorers of Gor page 311)
Among the lelts, too, were, here and there, tiny salamanders, they,too, white and blind. Like the lelt, they were, for their size, long-bodied, were capable of long periods of dormancy and possessed a slow metobolism, useful in an enviroment in which food is not plentiful. Unlike the lelts they had long, stem-like legs. At first I had taken them for lelts, skittering about the rafts, even to the fern-like filaments at the sides of their head, but these filaments, in the case of salamanders, interestingly, are not vibration receptors but feather gills, an external gill system. This system, common in the developing animals generally, is retained even by they adult salamanders, who are,, in this enviroment, permanently gilled
(Tribesmen of Gor page 247 and 248)
He rode the species of tharlarion called the hightharlarion, which ran on its two back feet in bounding strides. Its cavernous mouth was lined with long, gleaming teeth. Its two small, ridiculously disproportionate forelegs dangled absurdly in front of its body.
(Tarnsmen of Gor page 115)
The high tharlarion, unlike their draft brethren, the slow moving, four-footed broad tharlarions, were carnivorous.
(Tarnsmen of Gor page 125)
Those approaching were drawn by land tharlarion, plodding on log roads along the edges of the river. The land tharlarion can swim barges across the river, but he is not as efficient as the vast river tharlarion.
(Captive of Gor page 81)
It might, too, be a Vosk turtle. Some of them are gigantic, almost impossible to kill, persistant, carnivorous.
(Nomads of Gor page 204)
Only one creature in the marshes dares to outline itself against the sky, the predatory Ul, the winged tharlarion.
(Raiders of Gor page 1)
Also, at night, crossing the bright disks of Gor's three moons, might occassionally be seen the silent, predatory shadow of the ul, a giant pterodactyl ranging far from its native swamps in the delta of the Vosk.
(Outlaws of Gor page 26)
There was a stiring in the water, and I realized the small water lizards of the swamp forest were engaged in their grisly work. I bent down and washed the blade of my sword as well as I could in the green water, but my tunic was so splattered and soaked that I had no way to dry the blade. Accordingly, carrying the sword in my hand, I waded back to the foot of the swamp tree and climbed the small, dry knoll at its base.
(Tarnsmen of Gor page 85 and 86)
