Kailauk (Forest)
Four-legged wide-headed, lumbering stocky ruminants, described as short trunked and tawny. The males have 3 trident-like horns, with brown and reddish bars on the haunches. The males are 400-500 Gorean stone (1600-2000lbs) and are 10 hands at the shoulder. The females are 8 hands and weight 300-400 Gorean stone (1200-1600lbs). Their horns and tooled hides are major exports of the port of Schendi.
*Kailauk are four-legged, wide headded, lumbering stocky ruminants. Their herds are usually found in the Savannah's and plains north and south of the rain forests, but some herds frequent the forests as well. These animals are short trunked and tawny. They commonly have brown and reddish bars on the haunches. The males, trident-like, have three horns. These horns bristle from their foreheads. The males are usually about ten hands at the shoulders and the females about eight hands. The males average about four hundred to five hundred Gorean stone in weight, some sixteen hundred to two thousand pounds, and the females average about three to four hundred Gorean stone in weight, some twoelve hundred to seixteen hundred pounds.
~Exlporers of Gor, page 93~
Kailauk (Prairie)
This animal is tawny with haunches marked in red and brown bars. Their wide heads bear a trident horn.
*Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-trunked kailauk, a stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains, tawny, wild, heavy, their haunches marked in red and brown bars, their wide heads bristling with a trident of horns; they had not stood and formed their circle, shes and young within the circle of tridents.
~Nomads of Gor, page 2~
Kur
The Kur is a species unto it's own, large fur covered with sharp fangs an talons yet extremely intelligent and technilogiclally advanced.
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Larl
A 7ft feline with broad viper shaped head and cat like pupils, carnivourous
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Panther
Inhabitant of the floor of the jungle. No true description given but it is inferred that there may be more than one species.
*On the jungle floor, as well, are found jungle larls and jungle panthers, of diverse kinds, and many smaller catlike predators.
~Explorers of Gor, page 312~
Quala
The quala is a small, three toed mammal, a dun color with a dark stiff brush of a mane. (plural..qualae)
*Near one of the green stretches I saw what i first thought was a shadow, but as the tarn passed, it scattered into a scampering flock of tiny creatures, probably the small, three-toed mammals called qualae, dun-colored and with a stiff brushy mane of black hair.
~Tarnsman of Gor, page 141~
Sleen
The sleen is said to be Gor's finest tracker, bearing six-legs and long fur it resembles a large lizard except it is mammalian. The agile, sinous body of the sleen is as thick as a drum and is 14-15 feet long. In its attack frenzy it is one of the most dangerous animals known on Gor.
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Tarn
The Tarn is a bird resembling in a way the hawk of earth only of immense size, large enough in fact to be used as a saddle bird for men.
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