Lice (Tarn)
Parasitic marble sized insects which infest tarn.
*I withdrew some of the lice, the size of marbles, which tend to infest wild tarns, and slapped them roughly into the mouth of the tarn, wiping them off on his tongue.
~Tarnsman of Gor, page 142~
Needle Flies
*Originate in the delta and similar places. It's sting is extremely painful but it is usually not dangerous unless inflicted in great numbers.
~Vagabonds of Gor, page 161~
Rennel
A poisonous crablike desert insect.
*I was told by Kamchak that once an army of a thousand wagons turned aside because a swarm of rennels, poisonous, crablike desert insects, did not defend it's broken nest, crushed by the wheel of the lead wagon.
~Nomads of Gor, page 27~
Rock Spider
The rock spider has a habit of holding their legs folded beneath them, their color, black and brown making them resemble a rock.
*They are called rock spiders because of their habit of holding their legs folded beneath them. This habit, and their size and coloration, usually brown and black, suggests a rock, and hence the name. It is a very nice piece of natural camouflage. A thin line runs from the web to the spider. When something strikes the web the tremor is transmitted by means of this line to the spider.
~Explorers of Gor, page 294~
Scorpion
The scorpion on Gor is found in the canopy level of the rainforest.
*Here too, may be found snakes and monkeys, gliding urts, leaf urts, squirrels, climbling, long-tailed porcupines, lizards, sloths, and the usual varieties of insects, ants, centipedes, scorpions, beetles and flies, and so on.
~Explorers of Gor, page 311~
Slime Worm
This long, slow blind worm inhabits the caverns beneath the Nest of the Priest kings in the Sadar Mountains. They scavenge the remains of meals of the Golden Beetles.
*It's tiny mouth on the underside of it's bod touched the stone flooring here and there like the poking finger of a blind man and the long, whitish, rubbery body gathered itself and pushed forward and gathered itself and pushed forward again until it lay but a yard from my sandal, almost under the shell of the slain Beetle. The slime worm lifted the forward portion of it's long, tubular body and the tiny red mouth on it's underside seemed to peer up at me.
~Priest Kings of Gor page 186~
Toos
Toos are crab-like organisms with overlapping plating; they inhabit the nests of the Sadar and scavenge discarded fungus spores.
*I swung the transportation disk in a graceful arc to one side of the tunnel to avoid running into a crablike organism covered with overlapping plating and then swung the disk back in another sweeping arc to avoid slicing into a stalking Priest-King who lifted his antennae quizically as we shot past. 'The one who was not a Priest-King,' quickly said to Mul-Al-Ka, 'was a Matok and is called a Toos and lives on discarded fungus spores.' |
