Grunt (Thassa)
*A large, carnivorous, salt-water fish which inhabits Thassa. It is often attracted by the blood of a wounded creature.
~Book 9, page 59~
Grunt (blue)
A small carnivorous, fresh water fish, releated to the Thassa grunt.
*Such blood might attract the bint, a fanged, carnivorous marsh eel, or the predatory, voracious blue grunt, a small, fresh-water variety of the much larger and familiar salt-water grunt of Thassa. The blue grunt is particularly dangerous during the daylight hours preceding it's mating periods, when it schools. It's mating periods are synchronized with the phases of Gor's major
moon, the full moon reflecting on the surface of the water somehow triggering the mating instinct. During the daylight hours preceding such a moon, as the restless grunts school, they will tear anything edible to pieces which crosses their path.
~Explorers of Gor, page 267~
Grunt, (great speckled)
A fish which inhabits the Thassa.
*I saw a great speckled grunt, four-gilled.
~Slave girl of Gor, page 360~
Grunt (white)
A large fish that is found in the plankton beds of the Polar North. Grunt eggs are considered a rare delicacy.
*Before each guest there were tiny slices of tospit and larma, small pastries, and, in a tiny golden cup, with a small golden spoon, the clustered, black tiny eggs of the white grunt.
~Fighting Slave of Gor, page 276~
Lelt
The lelt fish is blind with fernlike filaments at either side of it's head, the small fish is white in color and the favourite food of the salt shark.
*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 cranial vibration receptiors, from the cones and poles. Too, though they are blind, I think either the light, or the heat, perhaps, from out 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. The lelt is commonly five to seven inches in length. It is white, and long-finned. It swims slowly and smoothly, It's fins moving the water very little, which apparently contributes
to its own concealment in a blind environment and makes it easier to detect the vibrations of it's prey, any of several varieties of tiny segmented creatures, predominantly isopods. The brain of the lelt is interesting, comtaining an unusually developed odor-perception center and two vibration-reception centers. It's organ of balance, or hidden 'ear' is also unusually large, and is connected with an unusually large balance center in it's brain. It's visual center, on the other hand, is stunted and undeveloped, a remnant, a vague genetic memory of an organ long discarded in it's evolution.
~Tribesmen of Gor, page 247~
Marine Saurian
There are two speicies of marine saurian, One type being harmless with a long neck and rows of sharp teeth. It's feeds on garbage and small fish. The other type is a fish-like predator with long, tooth,toothed snouts that are silent and aggressive; sailors fear them as they do the long-bodied sharks.
*I had seen, yesterday, the long neck of a marine saurian lift from the waters of the gleaming Thassa. It had a small head, and rows of small teeth. it's appendages are like broad paddles. Then it had lowered it's head and disappeared. Such beasts, in spite of their frightening appearance, are apparently harmless to men. They can take only bits of garbage and small fish. Certain related species thrive on crstaceans found among aquatic flora. Further, such beasts are rare. Some sailors, reportedly, have never seen one. Far more common, and dangerous, are certain fishlike marine saurians, with long, toothed snouts; they are silent and aggressive, and sailors fear them as they do the long-bodied sharks.
~Slave Girl of Gor, page 360~ |
