Kailla
| The kaiila and its master fight in battle as one unit, seemingly a single savage animal, armed with teeth and lance." Nomads of Gor, 170. "The mount of the Wagon Peoples, unknown in the northern hemisphere of Gor, is the terrifying but beautiful kaiila. It is a silken, carnivorous, lofty creature, graceful, long-necked, smooth-gaited. It is viviparous and undoubtedly mammalian. The young are born vicious and by instinct, as soon as they can struggle to their feet, they hunt. The kaiila is extremely agile and can easily outmaneuver the slower, more ponderous high tharlarion. It requires less food, of course, than the tarn. A kailla, which normally stands about twenty to twenty-two hands at the shoulder, can cover as much as six hundred pasangs in a single day's riding." "The head of the kaiila bear two large eyes, one on each side, but these eyes are triply lidded, probably an adaptation to the environment which occasionally is wracked by severe storms of wind and dust; the adaptation, actually a transparent third lid, permits the animal to move as it wishes under conditions that force other prairie animals to back into the wind or, like the sleen, to burrow into the ground. The kaiila is most dangerous under these conditions, and, as if it knew this, often uses such times for its hunt." Nomads of Gor, 13-14. "The children of the Wagon peoples are taught the saddle of the kaiila before they can walk." Nomads of Gor, 17. "I then saw the kaiila pass. It was lofty, stately, fanged and silken. I had heard of such beasts, but this was the first time I had seen. It was yellow, with flowing hair. Its rider was mounted in a high, purple saddle, with knives in the saddle sheaths." Fighting Slave of Gor, 178. "The kaiila of these men were as tawny as the brown grass of the prairie, save for that of the man who faced me, whose mount was a silken, sable black..." Nomads of Gor, 14. |
