Ant (Marcher)
Native to Schendi, found in the rainforest, these ants are also known as the marchers. Agressively carnivorous they are around 2 inches in length.
*The column of 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.
~Explorers of Gor, pages, 399-403~
Arthropod
This huge insect can reach a size of 8 feet long and a yard high. It bears a segmented body and multiple legs. It's eyes on the end of long stalks. The Anthropod can be found in tunnels under the Nests of the Priest Kings.
*At that moment to my horror a large, perhaps eight feet long and a yard high, multilegged, segmented arthropod scuttled near, it's eyes weaving on stalks.
~Priest Kings of Gor, page 82~
Gitch
This insect is capable of inflicting a painful bite.
*'That is a roach,' he said. 'They are harmless, not like the gitches whos bites are rather painful. Some of them are big fellows, too. But there aren't many around. The frevets see to it. Achiates prides himself on a clean house.'
~Mercenaries of Gor, page 277~
Golden Beetle
The Golden Beetle is roughly the size of a rhinoceros, residing in the caverns below the Nests of the Priest Kings, it hunts them for prey, releasing pheremones which the Priest Kings find irresistable and almost narcotic, for Them, to die by this method is known as succumbing to the 'Pleasures of the Golden Beetle'.
*The Golden Beetle was not nearly as tall as a Priest-King, but it was probably considerably heavier. It was about the size of a rhinoceros and the first thing I noticed after the glowing eyes were two multiply hooked, tubular, hollow, pincerlike extensions that met at the tips perhaps a yard beyond it's body. They seemed clearly some aberrant mutation of it's jaws. It's antennae, unlike those of the Priest Kings, are very short. They curved and were tipped with a fluff of golden hair. Most strangely perhaps were the several long, golden strands, almost a mane, which extended from the creature's head over it's domed, golden black and fell almost to the floor behind it. The back itself seemed divided into two thick casings which might once, ages before, have been horny wings, but now the tissues had, at the points of touching together, fused in such a way as to form what was for all practical purposes a thick, immobile golden shell.
~Priest Kings of Gor, page 180~
Grasshopper (red)
A smallish grasshopper, red in color weighing in at around 4 ounces.
*A grasshopper, red, the size of a horned gim, a small, owl-like 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~
Leech (Marsh)
*Described as rubbery about four inches long'; it attaches itself to plants in the marsh of floats free in the water, waiting for warm-blooded animals. They fasten themselves to their victim to suck blood, until, satiated, they detach. They can be removed with fire or salt. They are edible.
~Vagabonds of Gor, pages 96-97, 99-100, 102~ |
