The Sleen
The Gray Sleen
The sleen is said to be Gor's finest tracker, this sex-legged sleen is a furred mammal with silver-gray fur. It has an agile, sinuous body, thick as a drum and is 14-15 feet in length. The gray sleen has a broad, triangular head and a huge jaw with two rows of fangs and a dark tongue, It's widely set eyes have slit-like pupils. This breed is relentless and tenacious. It can follow a scent that is weeks old for a thousand pasangs.
*To my terror, then pushing over my body, to thrust it's great jaws and head, so large I could scarecely have put my arms about them, into the hands and arms of my master, was an incredible beast. It had an extremely agile, active, sinuous body, thick as a drum and perhaps fourteen or fifteen feet long. It might have weighed a thousand pounds. It's broad head was triangular, almost viperlike, but it was furred. This thing was a mammal, or mammalian. It's eyes now had pupils like slits, like those of a cat in sunlight. So quickly then might it's adaptive mechanisms have functioned. About it's muzzle were gray hairs, grayer than the silvered gray of it's fur. It had six legs.
~Dancer of Gor, page 160~
The Forest Sleen
It is long, up to 20 feet, sinuous, black or brown in color. It resembles a lizard, except it is furred and mammalian. In it's attack frenzy it is one of the most dangerous animals on Gor.
*The sleen has six legs. It is long and sinuous; it resembles a lizard, save that it is furred and mammalian. In it's attack frenzy it is one of the most dangerous animals on Gor.
~Captive of Gor, page 155~
*I was silent. I was frightened with those huge jaws, the two rings of fangs, the long dark tongue, over me.
~Dancer of Gor, page 161~
The Hunting Sleen
*The hunting sleen is a hunter of men. It is 20 feet in length and weighs eleven hundred pounds. This domesticated forest sleen is double fanged and six-footed. Its tail tends to switch back and forth getting rigid as it hunts, it's ears flatten against it's head just prior to it's final 'charge' attack on it's prey.
~Beasts of Gor, pages 12-13~
The Prarie Sleen
The prairie sleen is tawny in color, and are smaller than the forest sleen, but quite as unpredictable and vicious. Domesticated prairie sleen are used for hunting and nocturnal herd sleen are used as shepherds and sentinals. They are released from their cages with the falling of darkness, responding only to the voice of their master. They are killed when their owner dies.
*Farther to one side I saw a pair of prairie sleen, smaller than the forest sleen but unite as unpredictable and vicious, each about seven feet in length, furred, six-legged, mammalian, moving in their undulating gait with their viper's heads moving from side to side, continually testing the wind.
~Nomads of Gor, page2~
The Sea Sleen
*Long sleek mammal with flippers and six legs and double fanged jaws, can weigh as much as 1000 pounds..and as much as 20 feet in length hunted by the Red Hunters for food and pelt.
~Beasts of Gor, page 285~ |
