Hurt
A two legged marsupial, the Hurt is raised for it's wool on ranches in the north, hearded by domesticated sleen.
*Cernus of Ar wore a coarse, black robe, woven probably from the wool of the bounding, two-legged Hurt, a domesticated marsupial raised in large
numbers in the environs of several of Gor's northern cities. The Hurt, raised on large, fenced ranches, herded by domesticated sleen and sheared by chained slaves, replaces it's wool four times a year.
~Assassin of Gor, page 39~
Jit Monkey
An inhabitant of the rainforests of Schendi; The Jit Monkey is a nocturnal simmian mammal.
*In the lower branches of the 'ground zone' may be found, also, small animals such as tarsiers, nocturnal jit monkeys, black squirrels, four-toed leaf urts..
~Explorers of Gor, page 312~
Kaiila (Desert and Southern)
*The sand Kaiila, or desert Kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the Northern hemisphere of Gor; there is obviously a phylogenetic affinity between the two varieties, or species; I conjecture, though I do not know, that the sand kaiila is a desert-adapted mutation of the subequatorial stock; both animals are lofty, proud, long-necked and smooth gaited; both are triply lidded, the third lid being a transparent membrane, of great utility in the blasts of the dry storms of southern plains or the Tahari; both creatures are comparable in size, ranging from twenty to twenty-two hands at the shoulder; both have incredible stamina; under ideal conditions both can range six hundred pasangs in a day; in the dune country, of course, in the heavy sliding sands, a march of fifty pasangs is considered good; both, too, I might mention are high-strung vicious-tempered animals; in pelt the southern kaiila ranges from a rich gold to black; the sand kaiila, on the other hand, are almost all tawny, though I have seen some black sand kaiila; differences, some of them striking and important, however, exist between the animals; most notably, perhaps, the sand kailla suckes it's young; the southern kaiila are viviparous, but the young, within hours after birth, hunt by instinct; the mother delivers the young in the vicinity of game; whereas there is game in the tahari, birds small mammals, an occasional sand sleen, some species of tabuk, it is rare; the suckling of the young in the sand kaiila is a valuable trait in the survival of the animal; kailla milk, which is used, like verr milk, by the peoples of the Tahari, is reddish, and has a strong, salty taste; it cotains much ferrous sulfate; a similar difference between the two animals, or two sorts of kaiila, is that the sand kaiila is omnivorous, whereas the southern kaiila is strictly carnivorous; both have storage tissues; if necessary, both can go several days without water; the southern kaiila also, however, has a storage stomach and can go several days without meat; the sand kaiila, unfortunately must feed more frequently; some of the pack animals in a caravan are used in carrying fodder; whatever is needed, and is not available enroute, must be carried; sometimes, with a mounted herdsman, caravan kaiila are released to hunt tabuk; a more trivial difference between the sand kaiila and the southern kaiila is that the paws of the sand kaiila are much broader, the digits even webbed with leathery fibers, and heavily padded, than those of it's southern counterpart.
~Tribesmen of Gor, page 70-71~
Kailiauk (Barrens)
A huge, dangerous trident-horned beast, the Barrens Kailiauk stands at 20-25 hands at the shoulder, weighing as much as 4,000 lbs. They migrate across the Barrens in herds, hunted by Red Savages and those who trade in their hides.
*The Kailiauk in question, incidentally is the kailiauk of the Barrens. It is a gigantic, dangerous beast, often standing from twenty to twenty-five hands at the shoulder and weighing as much as four thousand pounds. It is almost never hunted on foot except in deep snow, in which it is almost helpless. From kaiila-back, riding beside the stampeded animals, however, the skilled hunter can kill one with a single arrow. He rides close to the animal, not a yard from it's side, just outside the hooking range of the trident, to supplement the striking pwer of his small bow. At this range the arrow can sink into the feathers. Ideally it strikes into the intestinal cavity behind the last rib, producing large-scale internal hemorrhaging, or closely behind the left shoulder blade, thence piercing the eight valved heart.
~Savages of Gor, page 40~ |
