Ant

“Do not go too close,” said the leader of the small men. The column of the marchers was something like a yard wide. I did not know how long it might be. It extended ahead through the jungle and behind through the jungle farther than I could see in either direction. Such columns can be pasangs in length. It is difficult to conjecture the numbers that constitute such a march. Conservatively some dozens of millions might be involved. The column widens only when food is found; then it may spread as widely as five hundred feet in width. Do not try to wade through such a flood. The torrent of hurrying feeders leaves little but bones in its path. “Let us go toward the head of the column,” said the little man. We trekked through the jungle for several hours, keeping parallel to the long column. Once we crossed a small stream. The marchers, forming living bridges of their own bodies, clinging and scrambling on one another, crossed it also. They, rustling and black, moved over fallen trees and about rocks and palms. They seemed tireless and relentless. Flankers marshaled the column. Through the green rain forest the column moved, like a governed, endless, whispering black snake. “Do they march at night?” I asked, “Often,” said the small man. “One must be careful where one sleeps.” We had then advanced beyond the head of the column by some four hundred yards. “It is going to rain,” I said. “Will that stop them?” “For a time,” he said. “They will scatter and seek shelter, beneath leaves and twigs, under the debris of the forest, and then, summoned by their leaders, they will reform and again take up the march.” Scarcely had he spoken but the skies opened up and, from the midst of the black, swirling clouds, while lightning cracked and shattered across the sky and branches lashed back and forth wildly in the wind, the driven, darkly silver sheets of a tropical rain storm descended upon us. “Do they hunt?” I shouted to the small man. “Not really,” he said. “They forage.” “Can the column be guided?” I asked. “Yes,” he grinned, rubbing the side of his nose. Then he and the others curled up to sleep. I looked up at the sky, at the sheets of rain, the lashing branches. Seldom had I been so pleased to be caught in such a storm. -Explorers of Gor, page 400-401

He had thrown to the forest floor a portion of the slain tarsk. I watched the black, segmented bodies of some fifteen or twenty ants, some two hundred yards in advance of the column, approach the meat. Their antennae were lifted. They had seemed tense, excited. They were some two inches in length. Their bite, and that of their fellows, is vicious and extremely painful, but it is not poisonous. There is no quick death for those who fail to escape the column. Several of these ants then formed a circle, their heads together, their antennae, quivering, touching one another. Then, almost instantly, the circle broke and they rushed back to the column. “Watch,” had said the small man. To my horror I had then seen the column turn toward the piece of tarsk flesh. We had further encouraged the column during the day with additional blood and flesh, taken from further kills made by the small men with their nets and spears. I looked up at the stockade. I remembered it, for it was the same from which we had, earlier, slipped away in the darkness of the night. I rubbed tarsk blood on the palings. Behind me I could hear, yards away, a rustling. “We will wait for you in the jungle,” said the leader of the little men. “Very well,” I said. The rustling was now nearer. Those inside the stockade, given their music and dancing, would not hear it. I stepped back. I saw the column, like a narrow black curtain, dark in the moonlight, ascend the palings. I waited. Inside the stockade, given the feast of the village, the column would widen, spreading to cover in its crowded millions every square inch of earth, scouring each stick, each piece of straw, hunting for each drop of grease, for each flake of flesh, even if it be no more than what might adhere to the shed hair of a hut urt. When I heard the first scream I hurled my rope to the top of the stockade, catching one of the palings in its noose. I heard a man cry out with pain. I scrambled over the stockade wall. A woman, not even seeming to see me, crying out with pain, fled past me. She held a child in her arms. There was now a horrified shouting in the camp. I saw torches being thrust to the ground. Men were irrationally thrusting at the ground with spears. Others tore palm leaves from the roofs of huts, striking about them. I hoped there were no tethered animals in the camp. Between two huts I saw a man rolling on the ground in frenzied pain. I felt a sharp painful bite at my foot. More ants poured over the palings. Now, near the rear wall and spreading toward the center of the village, it seemed there was a growing, lengthening, rustling, living carpet of insects. I slapped my arm and ran toward the hut in which originally, our party had been housed in this village. With my foot I broke through the sticks at its back. “Tarl!” cried Kisu, bound. I slashed his bonds. I freed, too, Ayari, and Alice and Tende. Men and women, and children, ran past the doorway of the hut. There was much screaming. “Ants!” cried Ayari.
-Explorers of Gor, page 401-402

Anteater

More than six varieties of anteater are also found here, and more than twenty kinds of small, fleet, single-horned tabuk
-Explorers of Gor, page 312

Anteater, Great Spinned

We sat about the small fire, some half pasang inland from the river, in the rain forest. 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 might claws, then darting its food-foot-long tongue, coated with adhesive salive, among the nest's startled occupants, drawing thousands in a matter of moments into its narrrow, tubelike mouth.
-Explorers of Gor, page 293

Bee

I saw small fruit trees, and hives, where honey bees were raised; and there were small sheds, here and there, with sloping roofs of boards; in some such sheds might craftsmen work; in others fish might be dried or butter made....
-Marauders of Gor, page 81

Bint

Ayari nodded, shuddering. Such blood might attract the bint, 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....
-Explorers of Gor, page 267

Bird, Hermit

Bird, Hermit 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

Bird, Umbrella

In the lower portion of the canopies, too, can be found heavier birds, such as the ivory-billed woodpecker and the umbrella bird.
-Explorers of Gor, page 311

Bird, Verminium

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, or again, by her grace and manner
-Magicians of Gor, page 363

Bosk

The bosk, without which the Wagon Peoples could not live, is an oxlike creature. 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, when measured from tip to tip, exceed the length of two spears.
-Nomads of Gor, page 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, page 26

Not only does the flesh of the bosk and the milk its cows furnish the Wagon Peoples with food and drink, but its hides cover the domelike wagons in which they dwell; its tanned and sewn skins cover their bodies; the leather of it hump is used for their shields; its sinews froms their thread; its bones and horns are split and tooled into implements of a hundred sorts, from awls, punches and spoons to drinking flagons and weapon tips; its hoofs are used for glues; its oils are used to grease their bodies against the cold. Even the dung of the bosk finds its uses on the treeless prairies, being dried and used for fuel. The bosk is said to be the Mother of the Wagon Peoples, and they reverence it as such. The man who kills one foolishly is strangled in thongs or suffocated in the hide of the animal he slew; if, for any reason, the man should kill a bosk cow with unborn young he is staked out, alive, in the path of the herd and the march of the Wagon Peoples takes it way over him.
-Nomads of Gor, page 5

Clam

I looked at him steadily. "They are probably false stones," I said, "amber droplets, the pearls of the Vosk sorp, the polished shell of the Tamber clam, glass colored and cut in Ar for trade with ignorant southern peoples."
-Nomads of Gor, page 20

Cuttlefish

It contained as well the separated oil of the Thentis needle tree; an extract from the glands of the Cartius river urt; and a preparation formed from a disease calculus scraped from the intestines of the rare Hunjer Long Whale, the result of the inadequate digestion of cuttlefish
-Marauders of Gor, page 114

Deer

"Perhaps," suggested Gorm, "it is diseased or injured, and can no longer hunt the swift deer of the north?"
-Marauders of Gor, page 108

Eel

Many estates, particularly country homes, have pools in which fish are kept. Some of these pools contains voracious eels, of various sorts, river eels, black eels, the spotted eel, and such, which are Gorean delicacies. Needless to say abound slave, cast into such a pool, will be eaten alive.
-Magicians of Gor, Page 428

Eel, Dock

The dock eels, black, about four feet long, are tenacious creatures.
-Rogue of Gor, page 155

Finch

In the second level, that of the canopies, is found an incredible variety of birds, warblers, finches, mindars, the crested lit and the common lit, the fruit tindel, the yellow gim, tanagers, some varieties of parrot, and many more.
-Explorers of Gor, page 311

Finch, Whistling

In the ground zone, and on the ground itself, are certain birds, some flighted, like the hook-billed gort, which preys largely on the rodents, such as ground urts and the insectivorous whistling finch, and some unflighted, like the grub borer and lang gim.
-Explorers of Gor, page 311

Fish, Cosian Wing

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 small sea tharlarion, who are immune to the poison of the spines. It is also called a songfish, because, in their courtship rituals, males and females thrust their heads from the water, uttering a kind of whistle. Their livers are regarded as a delicacy.
-Raiders of Gor, page 139

The blue, four-spined 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.
-Nomads of Gor, page 84-85

Fish, Parsit

The men who had fished with the net had now cleaned the catch of parsit fish, and chopped the cleaned, boned, silverish bodies into pieces, a quarter inch in width.
-Marauders of Gor, page 63

The parsit current is the main eastward current above the polar basin. It is called the parsit current for it is followed by several varieties of migrating parsit, a small, narrow, usually striped fish.
-Explorers of Gor, page 38

Fisher, Tufted

Along the river, of course, many other species of birds may be found, such as jungle gants, tufted fishers and ring-necked and yellow-legged waders.
-Explorers of Gor, page 311

Fisher, Ushindi

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, page 236

Fleer

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, page 117

Fleer, Long Billed

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

Fleer, Prairie

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

Fly, Black Sand

I permitted nomad children to discomfit her. They are fiendish little beggars. They tickled her with the lanceolate leaves of the tree. They put honey about her, to attract the tiny black sand flies, which infest such water holes in the spring. When we would break camp, I would lift her to the kurdah, placing her within.
-Tribesmen of Gor, page 81

Fly, Sting or Needle

“Ai!” cried a fellow, suddenly, in pain. “It is a needle fly,” said a fellow. “There is another,” said a man. “And another,” said another. Most sting flies, or needle flies, as the men from the south call them, originate in the delta, and similar places, estuaries and such, as their eggs are laid on the stems of rence plants. As a result of the regularity of breeding and incubation times there tends, also, to be peak times for hatching. These peak times are also in part, it is thought, a function of a combina-tion of natural factors, having to do with conditions in the delta, such as temperature and humidity, and, in particular, the relative stability of such conditions. Such hatching times, as might be supposed, are carefully monitored by rencers. Once outside the delta the sting flies, which spend most of their adult lives as solitary insects, tend to disperse. Of the millions of sting flies hatched in the delta each summer, usually over a period of four or five days, a few return each fall, to begin the cycle again.
-Vagabonds of Gor, page 161

Fly, Zarlit

“Look out!” cried a man, suddenly. I heard a humming nearby. It was the sound of large wings, moving rapidly. “It is only a zarlit fly,” said another. The zarlit fly is very large, about two feet long, with four large, translucent wings, with a span of about a yard. It has large, padlike feet on which, when it alights, it can rest on the water, or pick its way delicately across the surface. Most of them are purple. Their appearance is rather formidable, and can give one a nasty turn in the delta, but, happily, one soon learns they are harmless, at least to humans. Some of the fellows of Ar were still uneasy when they were in the vicin-ity. The zarlit fly preys on small insects, usually taken in flight.
-Vagabonds of Gor, page 160

Frevet

"That is not an urt," said the proprietor. "They usually come out after dark. There is too much noise and movement for them during the day." 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 insects, the beetles and lice, and such." Boabissia was silent. "Not every insula furnishes frevets," said the proprietor. "They are charming as well as useful creatures. You will probably grow fond of them. You will probably wish to keep your door open at night, for coolness, and to give access to them. They cannot gnaw through walls like urts, you know."
-Mercenaries of Gor, page 275-276

Gant, Arctic

I stepped aside to let a young girl pass, who carried two baskets of eggs, those of the migratory artic gant. 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 relation to the Hrimgar chains. When such eggs are frozen, they are eaten like apples.
-Beasts of Gor, page 196

Gant, Jungle

Along the river, of course, many other species of birds may be found, such as jungle gants, tufted fishers and ring-necked and yellow-legged waders.
-Explorers of Gor, page 311

Gant, Marsh

I heard a bird some forty of 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

Gatch, Armored

On the floor itself are also found several varieties of animal life, in particular marsupials, such as the armored gatch, and rodents, such as slees and ground urts.
-Explorers of Gor, page 312

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, page 312

Gim, Horned

It was a small bird, about the size of a sparrow, but it looked a bit like a tiny owl, with tufts over its eyes. It was purplish.
-Captive of Gor, page 39

I heard the throaty warbling, so loud for such a small bird, of the tiny horned gim
-Hunters of Gor, page 106

Gim, Land

In the ground zone, and on the ground itself, are certain birds, some flighted, like the hook-billed gort, which preys largely on the rodents, such as ground urts and the insectivorous whistling finch, and some unflighted, like the grub borer and lang gim.
-Explorers of Gor, page 311

Gim, Yellow

In the second level, that of the canopies, is found an incredible variety of birds, warblers, finches, mindars, the crested lit and the common lit, the fruit tindel, the yellow gim, tanagers, some varieties of parrot, and many more.
-Explorers of Gor, page 311

Gint or Lung Fish

I recalled, sunning themselves on exposed roots near the river, tiny fish. Tey 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 season, 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 they tiny fish can thrives 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 agression, 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 299-300

Gint, Giant

"I have seen them before," I said, "but they were only about six inches in length." 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 had 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

Gort, Hook Billed

In the ground zone, and on the ground itself, are certain birds, some flighted, like the hook-billed gort, which preys largely on the rodents, such as ground urts and the insectivorous whistling finch, and some unflighted, like the grub borer and lang gim.
-Explorers of Gor, page 311

Grasshopper

“Oh!” cried the girl, startled. A grasshopper, red, the size of a horned gim, a small, owllike bird, some four ounces in weight, common in the northern latitudes, had leaped near the fire, and disappeared into the brush.
-Explorers of Gor, page 293

Grub Borer

In the ground zone, and on the ground itself, are certain birds, some flighted, like the hook-billed gort, which preys largely on the rodents, such as ground urts and the insectivorous whistling finch, and some unflighted, like the grub borer and lang gim.
-Explorers of Gor, page 311

Grunt, Blue

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 resless grunts school, they will tear anything edible to pieces which crosses their path. During the hours of mating, however, interestingly, one can move and swim among them untouched. The danger, currently, of the bint and blue grunt, however, was not primarily due to any peril they themselves might represent, particularly as the grunt would not now be schooling, but due to the fact that they, drawn by shed blood, might be followed by tharlarion.
-Explorers of Gor, page 267

Grunt, Great Speckled

Half out of the water, then returning to it, i saw a great speckled grunt, four-gilled. It dove and swirled away. Another man came to help with the line. I observed the struggle. One often fishes from the ships on Thassa, and the diet of the sailors consists, in part, of the catch. Part of each catch is commonly saved, to serve as bait for the next.
-Slave Girl of Gor, pagge 359-360

Grunt, White Bellied

the white-bellied grunt, a large game fish which haunts the plankton banks to feed on parsit fish
-Marauders of Gor, page 59

Gull, Coasting

From among the weapons at the foot of the couch, from one of the cylindrical qiuvers, still of the sort carried in Torvaldsland, I drew forth a long, dark arrow. It was more than a yard long. Its shaft was almost an inch thick. It was plied with iron, barbed. 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.
-Marauders of Gor, page 234-235

Gull, Schendi

"Those are Schendi gulls," said Ulafi, pointing to birds which circled about the mainmast. "They nest on land at night."
-Explorers of Gor, page 99

Gull, Torvaldsland

Twice yesterday, in long games, until the Torvaldsland gulls had left the sea and returned inland, I had failed to meet the gambit.
-Marauders of Gor, page 69

Gull, Vosk

We then waited about a minute, and I saw several birds--river gulls--flying north. "Those are Vosk Gulls," said Kamchak, "In the spring, when the ice breaks in the Vosk, they fly north."
-Nomads of Gor, page 137

Herlit

It was of 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 caled the Sun Striker, or, more literally, though in clumsier English, Out-of-the-sun-it-strikes on prey, like the tarn, with the sun above and behind it.
-Savages of Gor, page 143

Similar pits, though much smaller, are used for the capture of the taloned Herlit. In the case of the Herlit it is dragged bodily into the pit. There it may be dealt with in various ways. It may be strangled; it may be crushed to beneath the knee, with the hunter's weight; or it may be put on its belly, its back to be broken by a swift blow of the foot. In the latter two fashions, the wings are put to the side. This avoides damage to the feathers. It is not easy to kill such a bird with the bare hands, but that is the prescribed methodology. It is regarded as bad form, if not bad medicine, to use a weapon for such a purpose. And adult Herlit is often four feet in height and has a wingspan of some seven to eight feet. The hunter must be aware or being blinded or having an artery slashed in the struggle. The fifteen tail feathers are perhaps most highly prized. They are some fourteen to fifteen inches in height and yellow with black tips. They are particularly significant in the marking of coups. The wing, or pinion, feathers, are used for various ceremonial and religious purposes. The breath feathers, light and delicate, from the base of the bird's tail, are used, with the tail feathers, in the fashioning of bonnets or complete headdresses. They, like the wing feathers, may also be used for a variety of ceremonial or religious purposes. The slightest breeze causes them to move, causing the headdress to seem almost alive. It is probably from this feature that they are called "breath feathers". Each feather, of course, and its arrangement, in such a headdress, can have its individual meaning. Feathers from the right wing or right tail, for example, are used on the right side of the headdress, and the feathers from the left wing or left side of the tail are used on the left side of the headdress. In the regalia of the red savages there is little that is meaningless or arbitrary. To make a headdress often requires several birds. To give you an idea of the value of Herlits, in some places two may be exchanged for a kaiila; in other places, it takes three to five to purchase a kaiila.
-Blood Brothers of Gor, page 315

Hinti

"Hala" is Kaiila for the Gorean hinti, which are small, active insects. They resemble fleas but are not parasitic
-Blood Brothers of Gor, page 219-220

Hith

In another case, somnolent and swollen, I saw a rare golden hith, a Gorean python whose body, even when unfed, it would be difficult for a full-grown man to encircle with his arms.
-Priest Kings of Gor, page 191

In one cage, restlessly lifting its swaying head, there coiled a great, banded horned hith, Gor's most feared serpentine constrictor. It was native only to certain areas of the forests.
-Captive of Gor, page 210

Hurlit

"The first southern migrations of meadow kites," he said, "have already taken place. The migrations of the forest hurlit and the horned gim do not take place until later in the spring. This is the time that the Vosk gulls fly."
-Nomads of Gor, page 138

Hurt

Cernus of Ar wore a coarse black robe, woven probably from the wool of the bounding, two-legged Hurt, a domesticaged 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 sleen and sheared by chained slaves, replaces its wool four times a year.
-Assassins of Gor, page 39

Jard

The jard is a small scavenger. It flies in large flocks. A flock, like flies, can strip the meat from a tabuk in minutes.
-Beasts of Gor, page 149

Within the next Ahn we passed more than sixty bodies, dangling at the side of the river. None was that of Shaba. About some of these bodies there circled scavenging birds. On the shoulders of some perched small, yellow-winged jards.
-Explorers of Gor, page 415

Fluttering jards, covering many of the carcasses like gigantic flies, stirred, swarming upward as Inmak passed them, and then returned to their feasting.
-Beasts of Gor, page 170

Kaiila, Desert

The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic, and wild. in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of Gor; there is obviously a phylogenetic affinity between the two varieties, or species; I conjecture, though I do not know, that the sand kaiila is a desert-adapted mutation of the sub-equatorial stock; both animals are lofty, proud, silken creatures, long-necked and smooth-gaited; both are triply lidded, the third lid being a transparent membraine, of great utility in the blasts of the storms of the southern plains or the Tahari
-Tribesman of Gor, page 73

Kailla, Southern

The mount of the Wagon Peoples, unknown in the northern hemisphere of Gor, is they terrifying but beautiful kaiila. It is silken, carnivorous, lofty creature, graceful, long-necked, smooth-gaited. It is viviparous and undoubtedly mammalian, though there is no suckling of the young. The young are born vicious and by instinct, as soon as they can struggle to their feet, they hunt. It is an instinct of the mother, sensing the birth, to deliver the young animal in the vicinity of game. I supposed, with the domesticated kaiila, a bound verr or a prisoner might be cast to the newborn animal. The kaiila, once it eats its fill, does not touch food for several days.
-Nomads of Gor, page 13

Kailiauk

Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of started, 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 circles, shes and young within the circle of tridents; they too, had fled
-Nomads of Gor, page 2

Kailiauk are four-legged, wide-headed, lumbering stocky ruminants. Their herds are usually found in the savannahs and plains north and south of the rain forests, but some herds frequent the forests as well. These animals are short-trunked and tawny. They commonly have brown and reddish bars on the haunches. The males, tridentlike, have three horns. These horns bristle from their foreheads. The males are usually about ten hands at the shoulders and the females about eight hands. The males average about four hundred to five hundred Gorean stone in wieght, some sixteen hundred to two thousand pounds, and the females average about three to four hundred Gorean stone, some twelve hundred to sixteen hundred pounds.
-Explorers of Gor, page 93

Kailiauk, Barren

The kailiauk in question, incidentally, is the kailiauk of the Barrens. It is a gigantic, dangerous beast, often standing from twenty to twenty-five hands at the shoulder and weighing as much as four thousand pounds. It is almost never hunted on foot except in deep snow, in which it is almost helpless.
-Savages of Gor, page 40

Kite

Overhead, a wild Gorean kite, shrilling, beat its lonely way from this place, seemingly no different from a thousand other places on these broad grasslands of the south.
-Nomads of Gor, page 4

"The first southern migrations of meadow kites," he said, "have already taken place. The migrations of the forest hurlit and the horned gim do not take place until later in the spring. This is the time that the Vosk gulls fly."
-Nomads of Gor, page 137

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 fearsome jungle cats of my old world.
-Priest Kings of Gor, page 18

Larl, Black

The pelt of the larl is normally a tawny red or a sable black. The black larl, which predominantly nocturnal, is maned, both male and female.
-Priest Kings of Gor, page 18

Larl, Jungle

On the jungle floor, as well, are found jungle larls and jungle panthers, of diverse kinds, and many smaller cat-like predators. These, on the whole, however, avoid men. They are less dangerous in the rain forest, generally, than in the northern latitudes. I do not know why this should be the case. Perhaps it is because in the rain forest food is usually plentiful for them to transgress the boundaries of their customary prey categories. They will, however, upon occasions, particularly if provoked or challenged, attack with dispatch.
-Explorers of Gor, page 312

Larl, Red

The red larl, which hunts whenever hungry, regardless of the hour, and is more common in variety, possess no mane.
-Priest Kings of Gor, page 18

Larl, White

I was stuck with wonder, though I was careful to keep beyond the range for 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, page 22

Lart, Snow

The hunter pulled a pelt from the bundle of furs he carried. It was snowy white, and thick, the winter fur of a two-stomached snow lart. It almost seemed to glisten. The slaver's man appreciated its value. Such a pelt could sell in Ar for half a silver tarsk. He took the pelt and examined it. The snow lart hunts in the sun. The food in the second stomach can be held almost indefinitely. It is filled in the fall and must last the lart through the winter night, which lasts months, the number of months depending on the latitude of his individual territory. It is not a large animal. It is about ten inches high and weighs between eight and twelve pounds. It is mammalian, and has four legs. It eats bird's eggs and preys on the leem, a small artci rodent, some five to ten ounces in weight, which hibernates during the winter.
-Beasts of Gor, page 74

Leech

Later he forced another leech into my mouth and waited until I had eaten it. He then took the remaining leeches and, with a shiver of disgust, with two hands, hurled them out from the bar, into the water.
-Vagabonds of Gor, page 102

"Here is another," said a fellow wading near me, holding up its wet, half flattened, twisting body in his hand. It was some four inches long, a half inch thick.
---Vagabonds of Gor, page 97

Leem

It eats bird's eggs and preys on the leem, a small arctic rodent, some five to ten ounces in weight, which hibernates during the winter.
-Beasts of Gor, page 74

Lelt

Lelts are often attracted to the salt rafts, largely by the vibrations in the water, picked up by their abnormally developed lateral-line protusions, and their fern-like craneal vibration receptors, from cones and poles. Too, 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 environment and makes it easier to detect vibrations of its prey, and of several varieties of tiny segmented creatures, predominantly isopods. The brain of a lelt is interesting, containing an unusually developed odor-perception center and two vibration-reception centers. Its organ of balance or hidden 'ear', is also unsually large balance center in its brain. Its visual center, on the other hand, is stunted and underdeveloped, a remnant, a vague genetic memory of an organ long discarded in its evolution.
-Tribesmen of Gor, page 259

Lice

I sprang to my feet, standing well within the reach of his beak, showing no fear. I slapped his beak affectionately, as if we were in a tarn cot, and shoved my hands into his neck feathers, the area where the tarn can't preen, as the tarn keepers do when searching for parasites. I withdrew some of the lice, the size of marbles, which tend to infest wild tarns, and slapped them roughly into the mouth of the tarn, wiping them off on his tongue.
-Tarnsman of Gor, page 142

Lit, Common

In the second level, that of the canopies, is found an incredible variety of birds, warblers, finches, mindars, the crested lit and the common lit, the fruit tindel, the yellow gim, tanagers, some varieties of parrot, and many more.
-Explorers of Gor, page 311

Lit, Crested

In the second level, that of the canopies, is found an incredible variety of birds, warblers, finches, mindars, the crested lit and the common lit, the fruit tindel, the yellow gim, tanagers, some varieties of parrot, and many more.
-Explorers of Gor, page 311

Lit, Needle Tailed

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

Lizard

Here, too, may be found snakes and monkeys, gliding urts, leaf urts, squirrels, long-tailed porcupines, lizards, sloths and the usual varieties of insects, ants, centipedes, scorpions, beetles and flies, and so on.
-Explorers of Gor, page 311

Lizard, Water

The tharlarion sunk a bit lower in the marsh, half closing its eyes. I knew the fight was over. More of the colourless exudate was seeping from its throat. About its flanks, as it settled into the mud, there was a stirring in the water, and I realised the small water lizards of the swamp forest were engaged in their grisly work.
-Tarnsman of Gor, page 85

Mamba

The word "Mamba" in most of the river dialects does not refer to the venomous reptile as might be expected, given its meaning in English, but interestingly, is applied rather generally to most types of predatory river tharlarion.
-Explorers of Gor, page 393

Mindar

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 in the bark of such trees for larvae and grubs.
-Explorers of Gor, page 282

Moccasin, Marsh

We saw a narrow, dark shape, about five feet long, like a slowly undulating whip, glide past. A small triangular head was almost level with the water surface. I did not think there had been much danger, but there was some possibility that the movements of her legs in the water might have attracted its attention. "That is a marsh moccasin," I said. "Are they poisonous," she asked. "Yes," I said. "I never saw one before," she said. "They are not common," I said, "even in the delta."
-Vagabonds of Gor, page 267

Monkey, Gueron

We could hear the chattering of guernon monkeys about.
-Explorers of Gor, page 307

Monkey, Jit

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

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.
-Nomads of Gor, page 26

Ost, Banded

The banded ost is a variety of ost, a small, customarily brilliantly orange Gorean reptile. It is exceedingly poisonous. The banded ost is yellowish orange and is marked with black rings.
-Assassin of Gor, page 335

Oyster

Other girls had prepared the repast, which, for the war camp, was sumptious indeed, containing even oysters from the delta of the Vosk, a portion of the plunder of a tarn caravan of Ar, such delicacies having been intended for the very table of Marlenus, the Ubar of the great city itself.
-Captive of Gor, page 301

Panther, Forest

I suddenly saw, before me, some fifty or sixty yards away, four pairs of blazing eyes, a pride of forest panthers. I pretended not to see them and, heart pounding, turned to one side, walking through the trees. At this time, at night, I knew they would be hunting. Our eyes had not met. I had the strange feeling that they had seen me, and knew that I had seen them, as I had seen them, and sensed that they had seen me. But our eyes had not directly met. We had not, so to speak, signaled to one another that we were aware of one anotehr. The forest panther is a proud beast, but, too, he does not care to be distracted in his hunting.
--Captive of Gor, page 181

Panther, Jungle

On the jungle floor, as well, are found jungle larls and jungle panthers, of diverse kinds, and many smaller cat-like predators. These, on the whole, however, avoid men. They are less dangerous in the rain forest, generally, than in the northern latitudes. I do not know why this should be the case. Perhaps it is because in the rain forest food is usually plentiful for them to transgress the boundaries of their customary prey categories. They will, however, upon occasions, particularly if provoked or challenged, attack with dispatch.
-Explorers of Gor, page 312

Panther, Yellow

He had worn at his loins the pelts of the yellow panther.
-Explorers of Gor, page 236

Parrot

The canopy, or zone of the canopies, ranges from about sixty to one hundred and twenty-five feet high, Gorean measure. The first zone extends from the ground to the beginning of the canopies above, some sixty feet in height, Gorean measure. We may perhaps, somewhat loosely, speak of this first zone as the "floor," or, better, "ground zone," of the rain forest. In the level of the emergents there live primarily birds, in particular parrots, long-billed fleers, and needle-tailed lits. -Explorers of Gor, page 311

Porucpine, Long Tailed

Here, too, may be found snakes and monkeys, gliding urts, leaf urts, squirrels, long-tailed porcupines, lizards, sloths and the usual varieties of insects, ants, centipedes, scorpions, beetles and flies, and so on.
-- Explorers of Gor, page 311

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, bushy main of black hair.
-Tarnsman of Gor, page 140-141

Rennel

I was told by Kamchak that once an army of a thousand wagons turned aside because a swarm of rennels, poisonous, crablike desert insects, did not defend its broken nest, crushed by the wheel of the lead wagon.
-Nomads of Gor, page 27

She was gasping and stumbling; her body glistened with perspiration; her legs were black with wet dust; her hair was tangled and thick with dust; her feet and ankles were bleeding; her calves were scratched and speckled with the red bites of rennels.
-Nomads of Gor, page 135

Roach

We watched a large, oblong, flat bodied black object, about half a hort in length, with long feelers, hurry toward a crack at the base of the wall. "That is a roach," he said. "They are harmless, not like the gitches whose bites are rather painful."
-Mercenaries of Gor, page 276-277

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, page 247

Saurine, Marine

Sharks, and sometimes marine saurians, sometimes trail the ships, to secure discarded garbage and rob the lines of the fisherman. The convoy, by its size, had doubtless attracted many such monsters. I had seen, yesterda, teh long neck of a marine saurian lift from the waters of gleaming Thass. It has a small head, and rows of small teeth. Its appendages were like broad paddles. Then it lowered its head and disappeared. Such beasts, in spite of their frightening appearance, are apparently harmless to men. 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 sailers, reportedly, have never seen one.
-Slave Girl of Gor, page 360

Sea Sleen

The sea sleen, vicious, fanged aquatic mammals, apparently related to the land forms of sleen, are the swiftest predators to be found in Thassa; further, they are generally conceded to be the most dangerous; they tend, however, to frequent the northern waters. Occasionally they have been found as far south, however, as the shores of Cos and the deep inlets of Tyros.
-Slave Girl of Gor, page 360

Sea Sleen, Black

The four main types of sea sleen found in the polar seas are the black sleen, the brown sleen, the tusked sleen and the flat-nosed sleen. There is a time of year for the arrival of each, depending on the waves of the parsit migration. Not all members of a species of sleen migrate.
-Beasts of Gor, page 38

Sea Sleen, Brown

The four main types of sea sleen found in the polar seas are the black sleen, the brown sleen, the tusked sleen and the flat-nosed sleen.
-Beasts of Gor, page 38

Sea Sleen, Flat Nosed

The four main types of sea sleen found in the polar seas are the black sleen, the brown sleen, the tusked sleen and the flat-nosed sleen.
-Beasts of Gor, page 38

Sea Sleen, Rogue

"That, I think, is a rogue sleen," said Imnak. "It is a broad-head, and they are rare in these waters in the fall. Too, see the gray on the muzzle and the scarring on the right side of the head, where the fur is gone?" "Yes," I said. "I think it is a rogue," he said. "Also, see the way he is watching you." "Yes," I said. "I think it has been hunted before," he said.
-Beasts of Gor, page 283

Sea Sleen, Tusked

The four main types of sea sleen found in the polar seas are the black sleen, the brown sleen, the tusked sleen and the flat-nosed sleen.
-Beasts of Gor, page 38

Sea Sleen, White Spotted

And behind them, in a rich swirling cloak of the fur of the white, spotted sea sleen, sword in hand, looking wildly about, was another man, one I did not know.
-Raiders of Gor, page 300

Shark, Marsh

Beyond them would be the almost eel-like, long-bodied, nine-gilled Gorean marsh sharks.
-Raiders of Gor, page58

Shark, River

I saw a sudden movement in the water. Something, with a twist of its great spine, had suddenly darted from the waters under the pier and entered the current of the Laurius. I saw the flash of a triangular, black dorsal fin.
-Captive of Gor, page 79

Shark, Salt

"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 steersman 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. These were 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 261

Slee

On the floor itself are also found several varieties of animal life, in particular marsupials, such as the armored gatch, and rodents, such as slees and ground urts.
-Explorers of Gor, page 312

Sleen

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 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.
-Outlaw of Gor, page 36

Sleen, Forest

The sleen has six legs. It is long, sinuous; it resembles a lizard, save that it is furred and mammalian. In it its attack frenzy it is one of the most dangerous animals on Gor.
-Captive of Gor, page 155

Sleen, Grey

"Keep your legs apart," he said. "It is a gray sleen. I raised it from a whelp. Ah, greetings, Borko! How are you, old fellow!" I would have screamed and reared up, but I was thrust back, helpless, half strangled, scarcely able to utter a sound, to the step. So our masters can control us by our collars. To my terror, then, pushing over my body, to thrust its great jaws and head, so large I could scarcely have put my arms around 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 drum, and perhaps fourteen or fifteen feet long. It might have weighed 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.

"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."..."It is trained to hunt men, and slaves," he said.
-Dancer of Gor, page160-161

Sleen, Hunting

I crouched down. The animal had been released. Its head was now fully through the door. Its head was wide and triangular. Suddenly the eyes took the light of the lamp and blazed. And then, the head moving, its eyes no longer reflected the light. It no longer faced the light. Rather it was watching me. The animal was some twenty feet in length, some eleven hundred pounds in wieght, a forest sleen, domesticated. It was double fanged and six-legged. It crouched down and inched forward. Its belly fur must have touched the tiles. It wore a leather sleen collar but there was no leash on the leash loop. I had thought it was trained to hunt tabuk with archers but it clearly wasn not tabuk it hunted now. I knew the look of a hunting sleen. It was a hunter of sleen.
-Beasts of Gor, page 12-13

Sleen, Miniature

"Don't you really think so? What self-respecting rapist or slaver would be abroad at this hour? What would he expect to find? A miniature domestic sleen among the garbage cans?" -Mercenaries of Gor, page 407

To be sure, at that time, I did not know about the miniature, silken sleen that are sometimes kept as sinuous pets
-Dancer of Gor, page 167

Sleen, Prairie

Farther to one side I saw a pair of prairie sleen, smaller than the forest sleen but quite as unpredictable and vicious, each about seven feet in length, furred, six-legged, mammalian, moving in their undulating gait with their viper's head moving from side to side, continually testing the wind
-Nomads of Gor, page 2

Sloth

Here, too, may be found snakes and monkeys, gliding urts, leaf urts, squirrels, long-tailed porcupines, lizards, sloths and the usual varieties of insects, ants, centipedes, scorpions, beetles and flies, and so on.
-Explorers of Gor, page 311

Snail

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, page 62

Sorp

Here, too, may be found snakes and monkeys, gliding urts, leaf urts, squirrels, long-tailed porcupines, lizards, sloths and the usual varieties of insects, ants, centipedes, scorpions, beetles and flies, and so on.
-Explorers of Gor, page 311

Spider, Cell

I detected the odor of kort rinds, matted, drying, on the stones, where they had been scattered from my supper the evening before. Vints, insects, tiny, sand-colored, covered them: On the same rinds, taking and eating vints, were two small cell spiders.
-Tribesmen of Gor, page 115

Spider, Rock

This afternoon, late, when we had come inland, almost in the dusk, she had become entangled in the web of a rock spider, a large one. They are called rock spiders because of their habit of holding their legs folded beneath them. This habit, and their size and coloration, usually brown and black, suggests a rock, and hence the name. It is a very nice piece of natural camouflage. A thin line runs from the web to the spider. When something strikes the web the tremor is transmitted by means of this line to the spider. Interestingly the movement of the web in the air, as it is stirred by wind, does not activate the spider; similarly if the prey which strikes the web is too small, and thus not worth showing itself for, or too large, and thus beyond its prey range, and perhaps dangerous, it does not reveal itself. On the other hand, should a bird, such as a mindar or parrot, or a small animal, such as a leaf urt or tiny tarsk, become entangled in the net the spider swiftly emerges. It is fully capable of taking such prey. When the blond-haired barbarian stumbled into the web, screaming, trying to tear it away from her face and hair, the spider did not even reveal itself. I pulled her away from the net and slapped her to silence. Curious, as she, sobbing, cleaned herself with leaves and saliva, I located the gentle, swaying strand which marked the location of the spider. It, immobile on the ground, was about a foot in diameter. It did not move until I nudged it with a stick, and it then backed rapidly away.
-Explorers of Gor, page 294

Squirrel, Black

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

Tabuk

Gor, sparsely inhabited by human beings, teems with animal life, and in the next weeks I had no difficulty in living by hunting. I supplemented my diet with fresh fruit picked from bushes and trees, and fish speared in Gor's cold, swift-flowing streams. Once I brought the carcass of a tabuk, one of Gor's single-horned, yellow antelopes, which I had felled in a Ka-la-na thicket, to the hut of a peasant and his wife. Asking no questions, as was suitable given the absence of insignia on my garments, they feasted me on my own kill, and gave me fiber, and flints and a skin of wine.
-Outlaw of Gor, page 48

Tabuk, Northern

They were northern tabuk, massive, tawny and swift, many of them ten hands at the shoulder, a quite different animal from teh small, yellow-pelted, anteloplike 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 a quite dangerous animal. Usually they are killed from a distance, often behind shields and arrows.
-Beasts of Gor, page 152

Tabuk, Prairie

Once a tabuk, a prairie tabuk, tawny in the Barrens, single-horned, gazellelike, had grazed nearby. It had browsed within feet of us... Some varieties of prairie tabuk, interestingly, when sensing danger, tend to lie down. This is counterinstinctual for most varieties of tabuk, which, when sensing danger, tend to freeze, in a tense, standing position and then, if alarmed further, tend to scurry away, depending on their agility and speed to escape predators. The standing position, of course, as it the case with bipedalian, tends to increase their scanning range. The response disposition of lying down, apparently selected for in some varieties of tabuk, tends to be useful in an environment in which high grass is plentiful and one of the most common predators depends primarily on vision to detect and locate its prey.
-Blood Brothers of Gor, page 316-317

Tanager

In the second level, that of the canopies, is found an incredible variety of birds, warblers, finches, mindars, the crested lit and the common lit, the fruit tindel, the yellow gim, tanagers, some varieties of parrot, and many more.
-Explorers of Gor, page 311

Tarn

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 comparitive 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.
-Tarnsman of Gor, page 51

His talons were shod with steel - a war tarn. He raised his curved beak to the sky and screamed, lifting and shaking his wings. His enormous head turned towards me, and his round wicked eyes blazed in my direction.
-- p53, Tarnsman of Gor

Tarsier

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

Tarsk

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 tarsk, the formidable six-tusked wild boar of Gor's temperate forests.
-Outlaw of Gor, page 76

Some animals are best hunted from the back of kaiila with lances, in the open. They are cunning, persistent and swift.
-Explorers of Gor, page 345-346

Tarsk, Giant

The giant tarsk, which can stand ten hands at the shoulder, is even hunted with lances from tarnback.
-Explorers of Gor, page 346

Termite

Also in the ground zone are varieties of snake, such as the ost and hith, and numerous species of insects. The rock spider has been mentioned, and termites, also. Termites, incidentally, are extremely important to the ecology of the forest. In their feeding they break down and destroy the branches and trunks of fallen trees. The termite "dust," thereafter, by the action of bacteria, is reduced to humus, and the humus to nitrogen and mineral materials
-Explorers of Gor, page 311-312

Tharlarion, Broad

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

Tharlarion, High

These gigantic lizards had been bred on Gor for a thousand generations before the first tarn was tamed and were raised from the leathery shell to carry warriors. They responded to voice signals, conditioned into their tiny brains in the training years. Nonetheless, the butt of one's lance, striking about the eye or ear openings, for there are few other sensitive areas in their scaled hides, is occasionally necessary to impress your will on the monster.
-Tarnsman of Gor, page 124-125

Tharlarion, Land

There were other barges on the river, some moving across the river, others coming towards Laura, others departing. Those departing used only the current. 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

Tharlarion, Marsh

The delta of the Vosk, for most practical purpose, a vast marsh, an area of thousands of square pasangs, where the Vosk washes down to the sea, is closed for shipping. It is trackless and treacherous, and the habitat of marsh tharlarions and the predatory Ul, a winged lizard with wing-spans of several feet.
-Explorers of Gor, page 26

The marsh tharlarion, and the river tharlarion, of Gor are, I suspect, genetically different from the alligators, caymens and crocodiles of Earth. I suspect this to be the case because these Earth reptiles are so well adapted to their environments that they have changed very little in tens of millions of years. The marsh and river tharlarion, accordingly, if descended from such beasts, brought long ago to Gor on Voyages of Acquisition by Priest-Kings, would presumably resemble them more closely. On the other hand, of course, I may be mistaken in this matter. It remains my speculation however, that the resemblence between these forms of beasts, which are considerable, particularly in bodily configuration and disposition, may be accounted for by convergent evolution; this process, alert to the exigencies of survial, has, I suspect, in the context of similiar environments, similarly shaped these oviparous predators of two worlds.
-Explorers of Gor, page 326

Tharlarion, Racing

We were astride rented tharlarion, high tharlarion, bipedalian tharlarion. Although our mounts were such, they are not to be confused with the high tharlarion commonly used by Gorean shock cavalry, swift, enormous beasts the charge of which can be so devastating to unformed infantry. If one may use terminology reminiscent of the sea, these were medium-class tharlarion, comparatively light beasts, at least compared to their brethren of the contact cavalries, such cavalries being opposed to the sorts commonly employed in missions such as foraging, scouting, skirmishing and screening troop movements. Rather our mounts were typical of the breeds from which are extracted racing tharlarion, of the sort used, for example, in the Vennan races. To be sure, it is only select varieties of such breeds, such as the Venetzia, Torarii and Thalonian, which are commonly used for the racers. As one might suppose, the blood lines of the racers are carefully kept and registered, as are, incidentally, those of many other sorts of expensive bred animals, such as tarsks, sleen and verr.
-Magicians of Gor, page 290

Tharlarion, River

These barges, constructed of layered timbers of Ka-la-na wood, are towed by teams of river tharlarion, domesticated, vast, herbivorous, web-footed lizards raised and driven by the Cartius bargemen, father and sons, interrelated clans, claiming the status of a caste for themselves.
-Nomads of Gor, page 3-4

The marsh tharlarion, and the river tharlarion, of Gor are, I suspect, genetically different from the alligators, caymens and crocodiles of Earth. I suspect this to be the case because these Earth reptiles are so well adapted to their environments that they have changed very little in tens of millions of years. The marsh and river tharlarion, accordingly, if descended from such beasts, brought long ago to Gor on Voyages of Acquisition by Priest-Kings, would presumably resemble them more closely. On the other hand, of course, I may be mistaken in this matter. It remains my speculation however, that the resemblence between these forms of beasts, which are considerable, particularly in bodily configuration and disposition, may be accounted for by convergent evolution; this process, alert to the exigencies of survial, has, I suspect, in the context of similiar environments, similarly shaped these oviparous predators of two worlds.
-Explorers of Gor, page 326

Tharlarion, Rock

It smoked and burned oil, probably from tiny rock tharlarions, abundant south of Tor in the spring.
-Tribesmen of Gor, page 233

Tharlarion, Saddle

Their most common mount is the medium-weight saddle tharlarion, a beast smaller and less powerful, but swifter and more agile, than the common high tharlarion.
-Mercenaries of Gor, page 45

Tibit

There were no signs of sails on the breadth of gleaming Thassa. The great circle of the horizon was empty. There were swift, white clouds in the sky. I heard the cry of sea birds, broad-winged gulls and the small, stick-legged tibits, pecking in the sand for tiny mollusks. There was a salt smell in the air, swift and bright in the wind. Thassa was beautiful.
-Hunters of Gor, page 247

Tindel, Fruit

In the second level, that of the canopies, is found an incredible variety of birds, warblers, finches, mindars, the crested lit and the common lit, the fruit tindel, the yellow gim, tanagers, some varieties of parrot, and many more.
-Explorers of Gor, page 311

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. In making such a cloak only two feathers are taken from the breast of each bird. It takes sometimes a hundred years to fashion a cloak. Naturally it is to be worn only by an Ubar.
-Explorers of Gor, page 236

Toos

I swung the transportation disk in a graceful arc to one side of the tunnel to avoid running into a crablike organism covered with overlapping plating and then swung the disk back in another sweeping arc to avoid slicing into a stalking Priest King who lifted his antennae quizzically as we shot past. "The one who was not a Priest King," quickly said Mul-Al-Ka, "was a Matok and is called a Toos and lives on discarded fungus spores."
-Priest-Kings of Gor, page 142

Tumit

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.
-Nomads of Gor, page 2

Turtle, Marsh

Turning as it made a swift strike, probably a Vosk carp or marsh turtle
-Raiders of Gor, page 1

Turtle, Vosk

It might, too, be a Vosk turtle. Some of them are gigantic, almost impossible to kill, persistent, carnivorous.
-Nomads of Gor, page 204

Ul

Only one creature in the marshes dares to outlines itself against the sky, the predatory Ul, the winged tharlarion.
-Raiders of Gor, page 1

I saw a Ul, the winged tharlarion, high overhead, beating its lonely way eastward over the marsh.
-Raiders of Gor, page 61

We heard, outside, the screaming of a predatory ul, a gigantic, toothed, winged lizard, soaring over the marshes.
-Savages of Gor, page 18

“There may be others,” she said. “Probably not in this vicinity,” I said. The larger uls, as opposed to the several smaller varieties, some as small as jards, tend to `e isolated and territorial.
-Vagabonds of Gor, page 203

Urt, Forest

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, page 117

Urt, Gliding

Here, too, may be found snakes and monkeys, gliding urts, leaf urts, squirrels, long-tailed porcupines, lizards, sloths and the usual varieties of insects, ants, centipedes, scorpions, beetles and flies, and so on.
-Explorers of Gor, page 311

Urt, Ground

On the floor itself are also found several varieties of animal life, in particular marsupials, such as the armored gatch, and rodents, such as slees and ground urts.
-Explorers of Gor, page 312

Urt, Leaf

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

Urt, Tree

Monkeys and tree urts, and snakes and insects, however, can be found in this highest level.
-Explorers of Gor, page 311

Vart

Perhaps most I dreaded those nights filled with the shrieks of the vart pack, a blind, batlike warm of flying rodents, each the size of a small dog. They could strip a carcass in a matter of minutes, each carrying back some fluttering ribbon of flesh to the recesses of whatever dark carve the swarm had chosen for its home. Moreover, some vart packs were rabid.
-Outlaw of Gor, page 26

Vart, Brown

I could, however, recognize a row of brown varts, clinging upside down like large matted fists of teeth and fur and leather on the heavy, bare, scarred branch in their case. I saw bones, perhaps human bones, in the bottom of their case.
-Priest-Kings of Gor, page 191

Vart, Jungle

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

Verr

The verr was a mountain goat indigenous to the Voltai. It was a wild, agile, ill-tempered, long-haired and spiral-horned.
-Priest-Kings of Gor, page 63

Vint

I detected the odor of kort rinds, matted, drying, on the stones, where they had been scattered from my supper the evening before. Vints, insects, tiny, sand-colored, covered them: On the same rinds, taking and eating vints, were two small cell spiders.
-Tribesmen of Gor, page 115

Vulo

She had been carying a wicker basket containing vulos, domesticated pigeons raised for eggs and meat.
-Nomads of Gor, page 1

Wader, Ring Necked

Along the river, of course, many other species of birds may be found, such as jungle gants, tufted fishers and ring-necked and yellow-legged waders.
-Explorers of Gor, page 311

Wader, Yellow Legged

Along the river, of course, many other species of birds may be found, such as jungle gants, tufted fishers and ring-necked and yellow-legged waders.
-Explorers of Gor, page 311

Warbler

In the second level, that of the canopies, is found an incredible variety of birds, warblers, finches, mindars, the crested lit and the common lit, the fruit tindel, the yellow gim, tanagers, some varieties of parrot, and many more.
-Explorers of Gor, page 311

Whale, Baleen

Before we had slept that night, and after Imnak had constructed our shelter, he removed from the supplies several strips of supple baleen, whale bone, the bluish blunt fin, which we had killed before taking the black Hunjer whale.
-Beasts of Gor, page 334

Whale, Hunjer

Suddenly, not more than a dozen feet from the boat, driving upward, rearing vertically, surging, expelling air in a great burst of noise, shedding icy water, in a tangle of lines and blood, burst the towering, cylindrical tonnage of the black Hunjer whale.
-Beasts of Gor, page 258

I reached out with my hand and pushed against the side of the mammal. The Hunjer whale is a toothed whale.
-Beasts of Gor, page 259

Whale, Karl

Sometimes they managed to secure the northern shark, sometimes even the toothed Hunjer whale or the less common Karl whale, which was a four-fluked, baleen whale.
-Beasts of Gor, page 36

Woodpecker, Ivory Billed

In the lower portion of the canopies, too, can be found heavier birds, such as the ivory billed woodpecker and the umbrella bird.
-Explorers of Gor, page 311

Zad

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, page 244

Zad, Jungle

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. Portions of the flesh the zad will swallow and carry back to its nest, where it will disgorge the flesh into the beaks of its fledglings. The zad is, in its way, a dutiful parent.
-Explorers of Gor, page 415

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 alight on the animals, and remain on them for some hours, hunting insects. This relieves the kaiila of the insects but leave it with numerous small wounds, which are unpleasant and irritating, where the bird has dug insects out of its hide. These tiny wounds, if they become infected, turn into sores; these sores are treated by droves with poultices of kaiila dung.
-Tribesmen of Gor, page 158

Zarlit

It was late in the afternoon, the fourteenth Gorean Ahn I would have guessed. Some swarms of insects hung in the sedge here and there but I had not been much bothered: it was late in the year, and most of the Gorean insects likely to make life miserable for men bred in, and frequented, areas in which bodies of unmoving, fresh water were plentiful. 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 it’s pad like feet, daintily picking its way across the surface. I flicked a salt leach from the side of my light craft with the corner of the tem-wood paddle.
-Raiders of Gor, page 5

Zeder

There is, however, a sleenlike animal, though smaller, about two feet in length and some eight to ten pounds in weight, the zeder, which frequents the Ua and her tributaries. It knifes through the water by day and, at night, returns to its nest, build from sticks and mud in the branches of a tree overlooking the water.
-Explorers of Gor, page 312