| Anteater |
...harmless, unless you cross its path or disturb it lives 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 mighty claws, then darting its four-foot-long tongue, coated with adhesive saliva, among the nest's startled occupants, drawing thousands in in a matter of moments into its narrow, tubelike mouth. 13/293
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| Bosk |
oxlike creature, huge, shambling animal with a thick humped neck and
long shaggy hair, wide head, tiny red eyes, temperament of a sleen, two
long wicked horns that reach out from its head
which suddenly curve forward to terminate in fearful points. 4/4 large,
horned shambling ruminant of the Gorean Plains 6/26
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| Cosian wingfish |
tiny delicate fish, blue, about the size of a tarn disk...3 or 4 slender
spines in its dorsal fin which are poisonous, capable of hurling itself
from the water and for brief distances, on its
stiff pectoral fins, gliding through the air...4/84 sometimes referred
to as the songfish as a portion of its courtship rituals, the males and
females thrust their heads from the water and utter a whistling sound.
Found only in the waters of Cos. 4/85
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| Eels |
voracious..Gorean delicacy, carnivorous. river eels, black eels, spotted eel 25/428 carnivorous, frequent the lower delta 6/8
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| Frevet |
usually come out after dark, small, quick, mammalian insectivore, they control the beetles and lice, and such. 21/276
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| Goat, mountain |
agile and bellicose, Gorean mountain goat 1/147
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| Hith |
huge, many-banded Gorean python. 2/26
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| Bounding hurt |
wool is woven into clothing 24/377 bounding, two-legged, marsupial... sheared for its wool, replaces it's wool 4 times a year, raised in large
herds. 5/39
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| Kaiila |
herbivorous, lofty, substantially the same animal as is found in the
Tahari, save for the wider footpads of the Tahari beast, suitable for negotiating deep sand...17/35
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| Kailiauk |
kailiauk--short-trunked, stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains, tawny,
wild, heavy, haunches marked in red and brown bars, wide heads bristle
with a trident of horns...4/2 lumbering, gregarious, short tempered, trident
horned 17/35 gigantic, dangerous beast, often standing from twenty to twenty-five hands at the shoulder and weighing as much as four thousand pounds...feathered. ..almost never hunted on foot unless in deep snow..17/40 ribs are vertical to the ground...17/41 seldom moves at night...17/39
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| Larl |
tawny leopardlike beast, indigenous to the Voltai and several of Gor's
ranges, seven feet high at the shoulder, carnivorous 1/147 when hunting
alone is silent 1/148 wide, fierce head, 2-3 feet in diameter...sharp,
pointed ears 1/148 huge, cat-like predator commonly found in mountainous
regions 4/2 pantherlike carnivore which may stand six to eight
feet high at the shoulder. 2/21
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| Leech |
...wet, half-flattened, some four incheslong, a half inch thick..24/97
two common ways to remove the are heat and salt...it is not wise to apply
force to them....too often part of the creature is left in the body which must then be removed with a knife or similar tool. 24/100
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| Lelt |
Lelts are often attracted to the salt rafts, largely by the vibrations
in the water, picked up by their abnormally developed lateral-line
protrusions, and their fernlike craneal vibration receptors, from the
cones and poles. Too, 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. 10/247
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| Ost |
venemous brilliantly orange reptile little more than a foot in length,
whose bite spelled an excrutiating death within seconds. 2/26
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| Ost, Ushendi |
are red with black stripes. Anatomically, and with respect to toxin, they are almost identical to the common ost. 13/239
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| Panther |
...save for the panther teeth about his neck...13/239 He had worn at his loins the pelts of the yellow panther. He wore, too, the teeth of his beast as a necklace. 13/236
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| Parsit fish |
.. slender striped parsit fish has vast plankton banks north of Kassau, silverish, striped with brown, ...smoked, dried parsit fish.
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| Qualae |
tiny, small three-toed mammals, stiff brushy mane of black hair, travel
in flocks 1/141
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| 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 domancy and posessed a slow metabolism, useful in an environment in which food is not plentiful. Unlike the lelts, they had long stemlike legs....but the filaments, in the case of the salamanders, interestingly, are not vibration receptors, but feather gills, an external gill system." 10/247 - 248
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| Shark, common |
common nine-gilled with many varieties; marsh shark and the sharks of the Vosk and Laurius have adapted to freshwater. 24/93 skin is very rough, abrasive...sicklelike tail...man is not the natural prey of them 24/174 marsh shark - long-bodied, nine-gilled 6/13 ...probably descendents of Earth sharks placed experimentally in Thassa millenia ago by Priest-Kings...4/205
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| Shark, marsh |
long-bodied, nine-gilled 6/13...adapted to freshwater
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| Sleen |
smaller than forest sleen, unpredictable, viscious, seven feet in length,
furred six-legged mammalians; have undulating gait, heads are viper shaped.
Domesticated as herd sleen. 4/2 relentless hunters and paws have six claws. 4/28 six-legged, long-bodied mammalian carnivore, almost as much a snake as an animal. 2/26 ..six short legs....like a furred lizard, its pointed, whiskered snout ......2/34 full grown, 19 or 20 feet long, wide nocturnal eyes...2/36 six legged, large-eyed, sinuous, mammalian resembling a furred serpentine lizard; reliable, indefatigable hunter; can follow a scent days old with ease; unusually keen senses 6/105
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| Slime worm |
a long, wormlike animal, eyeless, with a small red mouth 3/105
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| Tabuk |
one-horned, yellow antelope 1/145 single-horned, yellow antelopes...2/48
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| Tarsk |
six-tusked wild boar, formidable 2/77
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| Tharlarion, broad |
slow-moving, four-footed 1/125 draft lizards 2/76 become unmanageable when entering the mountains 2/48
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| Tharlarion, high |
a species of saddle lizard 1/52 runs on its two back feet in great bounding strides, its carnivorous mouth is lined with long gleaming teeth, has two small, ridiculously disproportionate forelegs that dangle absurdly in front of its body. 1/115 need far less water than a tarn 1/125
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| Tharlarion, river |
domesticated, vast, herbivorous, web-footed lizards 4/3&4
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| Tharlarion, sea |
travel in packs beneath the waves...not much more than teeth and tail
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| Tharlarion, tiny water |
carnivorous, similar to pirhana in that they pick the bones clean.
1/85-86 about 6 inches long, scavengers 6/1
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| Tur-pah |
vinelike tree parasite with curled, scarlet ovate leaves....leaves
are edible and used in sullage and other Gorean dishes. 4/217
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| Turtle, marsh |
large, edible 24/200
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| Turtle, Vosk |
...or one of the great hook-beaked turtles of the river would seize
my body and drag it and the frame under the water, destroying me in the
mud below. 1/139 gigantic, persistent and carnivorous 4/204
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| Ul |
a giant pterodactyl ranging far from its native swamps in the delta of the Vosk, silent, predatory. winged tharlarion, wings of skin and stretch from the jointed, hind legs, clawed, of the creature to an extremely long, fourth digit on its clawed hand...predatory...24/182 territorial and isolated 24/203 predatory winged tharlarion 6/1 webbed, scaled wings 6/77 will not attack a tarn as it would be torn to pieces 17/19
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| Urt |
small horned rodent 2/60 has three rows of needlelike white teeth; 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 socket, protruded over those gleaming eyes... 2/86 long hairless tail...2/86 silken, blazing-eyed, live mostly on the garbage in the canals; carnivorous at times 6/121 air-breathing mammal..long, triangular head 17/67
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| Vart |
a blind, batlike flying rodent, the size of a small dog. can strip
a carcass in a matter of minutes. sometimes rabid 2/26
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| Verr |
long-haired with spiraled horns 1/147 small long-haired, less beligerent and sizeable than the wild verr of the Voltai Ranges 4/10
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| Vosk carp |
...probably a Vosk carp or marsh turtle. 6/1
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| Vosk sorp |
giant shell 6/14 wore a headband of pearls of the Vosk sorp 6/21
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