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Ant, Marching: A shiny black, voracious, carnivorous insect, about 2 inches in length, inhabiting the jungles of Schendi. Often, during their seasonal marches, yards wide and in a single column will cover passangs in length and in the millions will devour all flesh, living or dead in their path. Although the bite is not poisonous, it is extremely painful. The victim will usually be weakened and eventually overcome by sheer numbers and the relentlessness of the attack.

Anteater: The great spined anteater grows to twenty feet in length and feeds primairily on white ants and termites by breaking apart their towering clay nests with huge claws, it's sticky four foot tongue darting and collecting thousands of insects into it's tube like mouth to feast. More than six varieties inhabit the rainforests of the Schendi.

Armored Gatch: A marsupial mammal also inhabiting the rainforests of Schendi.

Arthropod: Measuring eight feet in length, this creature inhabits the tunnels in the nest of the Priest Kings. It's body segmented and 8 legs suspending it a yard from the ground, has eyes on the end of long stalks.

Bosk: This huge shambling hump necked animal has long matted, shaggy hair. It has tiny red eyes to match it's vial temper and are set in a wide head. Along with two long pointed, wickedly curved horns, makes for an impressive sight. The horns from tip to tip may measure two spears in length. It is for good reason the bosk is called "The Mother of the Wagon Peoples"...it's flesh and milk furnish food and drink. Shelter and clothing is made from it's sewn and tanned hide. Weapons are made from the leather of it's huge hump and many tools and implements are made from it's bones and horns. Even the dung is dried and used as fuel. The bosk is revered, and the penalty for it's senseless slaughter is extreme.

Bint: A freshwater marsh eel, inhabiting the rivers of the rainforests of inland Schendi. Carnivorous and fanged, a school of bints can strip a carcass within minutes.

Eel: Vareities include the river eel, black eel, and spotted eel. And are considered a delicacy by most Goreans. A voracious animal which can kill or maim a slave within minutes.

Eel, Dock: Weighing eight to ten pounds and measuring four feet long, this black freshwater fish is agressive and carnivorous. Inhabits the shallow waters around docks and wharves of river ports.

Finch, Whistling: A flighted bird, insectavorous and inhabiting the ground levels of the rainforests.

Fisher, Ushindi: A tufted waterbird of the rainforests. It has long white feathers and long legs.

Fruit Tindel: This is a brightly plumaged bird that inhabits the rainforests.

Fleer: A large hook-billed bird which hunts at night.

Fleer, Long-billed: Inhabiting the emergent levels of the rainforest.

Fleer, Prairie: Large long winged yellow bird with a sharp bill, sometimes referred to as the "maize bird"...or the "corn bird"...due to the belief that it is usually the first bird to find food.

Gants: a small, horned, web-footed aquatic fowl. It is broad-billed and broad-winged. Its call is a kind of piping whistle.

Gatch, armored: This is a marsupial that lives in the rainforests.

Giani: These are solitary, prowling, tiny cat-sized panthers. They live in the rainforests and are not dangerous to man.

Lang Gim: an insectivorous bird that lives in the rainforests. The yellow gim also resides in the rainforests. Most gims make a throaty warbling.

Gint: a tiny, six-inch freshwater fish inhabiting the rainforests. It has bulbous eyes and flipper-like fins. It is amphibious and capable of walking on its pectorals. It is often found feeding off the scraps of tharlarion kills. It is like a lungfish.

Giant Gint: in the rainforests that is about ten feet long and weighs a thousand pounds.

Hook-billed Gort: This is a carnivorous hunting bird of the rainforests. It preys on ground urts.

Grasshopper: In the rainforests, there is a red grasshopper that weighs about four ounces in weight.

Grub borer: This is an insectivorous bird of the rainforests.

Lit: There are several varieties of this bird including the common lit, crested lit, and the needle-tailed lit. They are all found in the rainforests.