Animals Of Gor





Armored gatch: a marsupial mammal which inhabits the rain forests in land of Schendi

Bint: a small carnivorous freshwater fish which inhabits the rivers of the rain forests inland of Schendi; a large school of bints can strip a carcass in minutes; similar to the piranha of earth.

Blue grunt: a small voracious, carnivorous freshwater fish, related to the Thassa grunt; like its larger cousin, it is attracted by blood.

Bosk: a large, shaggy, long-horned bo-vine similar to the earth cow; cattle.

Broad tharlarion: sluggish tharlarion use as draft animals; herbivorous.

Common lit: a bird found in the rain forests of the Schendi area.

Crested lit: a bird found in the rain forests of the Schendi area.

Dock eel: a black water fish, 4' long and weighing 8-10 pounds; carnivorous, they inhabit the shallow waters around the dock and wharves of river ports.

Fleer: a large hook billed bird which hunts at night.

Giani: a large mammal of solitary habits which inhabits the rain forests inland of Schendi.

Giant gint: a large cousin of the gint found in western Gor, similar in appearance, but with a 4-spined dorsal fin; is also amphibious and capable of walking in its pectoral fins.

Giant tarsk: a large cousin of the tarsk, standing 10 hands high at the shoulder.

Gint: a tiny 6" freshwater fish which inhabits the rivers of the rain forests inland of Schendi; it has bulbous eyes and flipper like fins; it is amphibious, having both lungs and gills, is capable of walking on its pectoral fins; often found in the company of tharlarion feeding off the scraps of their kills.

Golden Beetle: an insect, roughly the size of an rhinoceros, which lives in the caverns below the Nest of the Priest Kings in the Sardar Mountains; its prey is the Priest Kings themselves.

Gort: a carnivorous hook billed hunting bird of the rain forests, inland of Schendi; preys on ground urts.

Ground urt: a small rodent which inhabits the floor of the rain forests inland of Schendi.

Grub borer: an insectivorous bird which inhabits the rain forests inland of Schendi.

Grunt: a large carnivorous salt water fish which inhabits Thassa; is often attracted by the blood of a wounded creature; similar to the shark of Earth.

Herlit: Gorean eagle, has wing span of 6-8 feet, is carnivorous, and has yellow feathers tipped with black; also called "Sun Striker" or "out-of-the-sun-it-strikes", from its habit of striking with the sun above and behind it; inhabits the Barrens.

High tharlarion: agile tharlarion used as a mount for riding, like T-rex, they have very short almost useless forelegs; carnivorous.

Hinti: a small flea like insect; unlike fleas they are not parasites.

Hith: huge python like snake.

Hook-billed gort: a carnivorous hunting bird of the rain forests inland of Schendi; preys on ground urts.

Horned gim: a small owl like bird, 4 ounces in weight, which inhabits the forests of Northern Gor.

Hurt: a kangaroo like animal whose wool is used for cloth.

Jard: a small yellow winged scavenger bird of the rain forests inland of Schendi.

Jit monkey: a simian mammal which inhabits the rain forests inland of Schendi.

Jungle gant: a bird related to the marsh gant, which inhabits the rain forests inland of Schendi.

Jungle vart: a relative of the northern vart, it inhabits the rain forests inland of Schendi.

Jungle zad: a cousin of the Tahari zad; found in the rain forest inland of Schendi.

Kaiila: a large (20-22 hands), carnivorous mammal with long neck and silky fur; its eyes have 3 lids, is viviparous, has incredible stamina, and can be domesticated for riding in spite of its vicious temper, in the Tahari, its long hair is used for rope.

Kailiauk: a stocky ruminant, tawny with red and brown markings on its haunches, having 3 horns; stands at 20-25 hands at the shoulder.

Kur: a large 8-9� furred mammal having 4 legs, which can stand upright or on all fours, each paw has 6 multiply jointed digits with retractable claws and an opposing thumb, so that it can grip. It has 2 rows of teeth. They are incredibly strong, ferocious, and are carnivorous, even to eating humans. Some Kur are able to communicate with the aide of a translator worn about their body.

Lang gim: an insectivorous bird which inhabits the rain forests inland of Schendi.

Larl: a large, 7 feet at the shoulder feline, tawny red or black in color, having a black mane; carnivorous. Similar to a lion of earth.

Leaf urt: a small tree dwelling rodent having 4 toes, which inhabits the rain forests inland of Schendi. Possibly resembles the tree sloth of earth.

Lelt: a small (5-7�) blind fish with fern like filaments at either side of the head which are its sensory organs. It is white with long fins, swims slowly and is the main food of the salt shark; inhabits the brine pits such as those at Klima in the Tahari.

Mamba: a large predatory river tharlarion which inhabits the rivers of the rain forests inland of Schendi; they have long log like bodies with short powerful legs, long snout and tail. Similar to earth crocodiles.

Marsh gant: a long legged marsh bird with a piping cry, similar to a curlew?

Marsh shark: a deadly fresh water hunter of the Gorean Marshes.

Mindar: a short winged yellow and red bird of the rain forests inland of Schendi; with its sharp bill it digs in the bark of the flower trees for larvae and bugs.

Nar: a swamp spider, whose web saved Tarl Cabot�s life in Tarnsman of Gor.

Ost: a tiny snake about 12� long, bright orange in color; its venom causes extremely painful death within seconds. The ost of the rain forests inland of Schendi are red with black stripes.

Parsit fish: a silvery fish having brown stripes.

Quala: a small dun colored, 3 toed mammal with a stiff brushy mane of black hair; pleural, qualae.

Racing Tarns: slender, lighter birds bred for speed and endurance, also used by messengers to go from one city to another. ( see Tarn)

Ring-necked wader: a variety of water bird which inhabits the rivers of the rain forests inland of Schendi.

River shark: a narrow black, vicious, carnivorous fish with a triangular dorsal fin, which inhabits the rivers of Gor.

River tharlarion: an extremely large, herbivorous web-footed lizard used by bargemen of the Cartius River to pull barges.

Rock tharlarion: a small reptile of the Tahari.

Salt shark: a long bodied (12� or more) carnivorous fish having gills situated under the jaw, several rows of triangular teeth, sickle like tail, and a sail like dorsal fin; inhabits the brine pits such as those of the Tahari.

Slee: a rodent which inhabits the rain forests inland of Schendi.

Sleen: a ferocious feline, some 20 feet long, having 6 legs and 2 rows of teeth. They can be domesticated for herding and tracking; deadly hunting dog of Gor, crosses between a weasel and a Komodo dragon, furred with fangs that drips a deadly poison. Six legged and tenacious they can track a trail days old as if it were fresh, rending and killing the object of the hunt, pack animals cared for solely by Masters so as not to be befriended by a slave who may try to run. There are four types: the prairie sleen, which is tawny, the forest sleen, which is black and brown, the aquatic sea sleen; and the white snow sleen.

Slime worm: a long, slow, blind worm which inhabits the caverns below the Nest in the Sardar; scavenges the remains of the Golden Beetle kills.

Sorp: a shell fish, common especially in the Vosk River, similar to an oyster and like an oyster it manufactures pearls.

Swamp spiders: man sized acrachnids which inhabit the swampland near the city of Ar. They can communicate in human speech via the mechanical translators they wear around their abdomens; they spin Cur-lon Fiber, which is used in the textile mills of Ar.

Tabuk: a kind of antelope, being yellow in color and having a single horn.

Tarn: crested, hawk like bird, large enough to be ridden, used in battle and in racing; enormous relative of the Golden Eagle, some with a 50� wing span. (also see Racing Tarns and War Tarns)

Tarsk: porcine animal akin to the earth pig, having a bristly mane which runs down its spine to the base of the tail.

Tharlarions: once of several types of large, carnivorous reptiles, some of which have been domesticated; its fat is rendered to provide lamp oil. (see also mamba)

Tibit: a small, thin legged bird which lives on tiny mollusks found on the shores of the Thassa; sandpiper?

Toos: a crab like organism with over lapping plating, inhabits the Nest and scavenges on the discarded fungus spores.

Tree urt: a small tree climbing rodent found in the rain forests inland of Schendi.

Tufted fisher: a water bird which inhabits the rivers of the rain forests inland of Schendi.

Tumit: large flightless bird about the size of an ostrich, having an 18� long hooked beak, carnivorous.

Ul: giant carnivorous pterodactyl.

Urt: a small silken furred rodent akin to the earth rat; it has three rows of teeth, two tusks and two horns.

Vart: blind, bat like flying rodent about the size of a small dog.

Verr: a mountain goat indigenous to the Voltai Mountains; wild, agile, ill tempered, with long hair and spiraling horns; source of a form of wool, its milk is potable, as well as being used for cheese.

Vosk sorp: a giant clam, thrives in the seas and marshes of Gor, the shell of which is large enough to be used as a throne.

Vulo: a tawny colored poultry bird, similar to a pigeon, which also exists in the wild; used for meat and eggs.

War Tarns: heavier but agile, trained to abide in battle. (see also Tarn)

Wing fish: tiny blue salt water fish with 4 poisonous spines on its dorsal fin; found in the waters off Port Kar; its liver is considered a delicacy in Turia.

Yellow gim: a bird related to the horned gim, which inhabits the rain forests inland of Schendi.

Yellow-legged wader: a variety of water bird which inhabits the rivers of the rain forests inland of Schendi.

Zad: a large broad winged black and white bird with a long, narrow yellowish hooked beak, found in the Tahari; they scavenge on carrion; similar to the earth vulture.

Zadit: a small tawny feathered sharp billed bird of the Tahari, insectivorous, feeding on sand flies and other similar insects; they often land on kaiila and spend long periods hunting the sand flies that infest the host animal.

Zeder: a small sleen like carnivorous mammal which inhabits the rain forests inland of Schendi, especially along the Ua River. Grows to about 2� and weighs 8-10 pounds; is diurnal, can swim very well and builds a stick and mud nest in the branches of a tree, where it spends the night.


Much of this was taken from the Gorean Dictionary.











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