Tabuk (common)
The Tabuk is similar to an antelope, it is yellow in color with a single horn, it haunts the kalana thickets of the planet and the meadows searching for berries and salt.
*The tabuk is the most common Gorean antelope, a small, graceful animal, one-horned and yellow, that haunts the kalana thickets of the planet and occasionally ventures daintily into it's meadows in search of berries and salt. It is also one one the favorite kills of a tarn.
~Outlaw of Gor, page 126~
Tabuk (prairie)
A gazelle like antelope, tawny in color, found in the long grasses of the plains of the Barrens.
*Described as tawny and gazelle-like with a single horn, it responds to threat by scurrying away or lying down. Presumably this response is useful because of the high grass of the Barrens as most predators depend on vision to detect and locate it's prey.
Tarsk
The fat, shaggy maned, hoofed, grunting short legged quadruped, the tarsk has a bristly mane which runs down it's spine much like a huge Earthen boar. It is particularly good roasted over open flame, turning on a spit.
*Still later that afternoon some groups of small, fat, fronting, bristly, bridled, shaggy-maned, hoofed, flat-snouted, rooting animals had been herded in, also with pointed sticks, and they, too, had been guided into identical cages. We had looked out of our cage, our fingers hooked in the mesh, to the other cages, some of them with girls in them, some with the fat, flat-snouted, grunting, short-legged, bridled quadrupeds. 'Those are tarsks' said one of the Gorean girls.
~Dancer of Gor, page 108~
Tarsk (giant)
This species of tarsk stands at around 10 hands at the shoulder it is hunted from tarnback with lances.
*The giant tarsk, which can stand ten hands at the shoulder, is even hunted with lances from tarnback.
~Explorers of Gor, page 346~
Urt (canal)
This rapid, moving water mammal is abundant in the canals of Port Kar.
*Behind the man, in the stern, lay the bloody, white-furred bodies of two canal Urts. One would have weighed about sixty pounds, and the other, I speculate, about seventy-five or eighty pounds.
Urt (giant)
Sleek, fat and white furred, the giant urt has 3 needle-like rows of white teeth and four horns.
*It was a giant urt, fat, sleek and white; it bared it's three rows of needlelike white teeth at me and sealed in anger; two horns, tusks like flat crescents curved from it's jaw; another two horns, similar to the first, modifications of the body tissue forming the upper ridge of the eye socket, proturuded over theose gleaming eyes that seemed to feast themselves upon me, as if waiting the permission of the keeper to hurl itself on it's feeding trough. It's fat body trembling with anticipation. The whip cracked again, and another command was uttered, and the animal, it's long hairless tail lashing in frustration, slunk into another tunnel.
~Outlaw of Gor, page 86~
Vart
A small bat-like sharp toothed mammal that flies in flocks. Raised in Tyros in vart caves.
*Perhaps most I dreaded those nights filled with the shrieks of the vart pack, a blind, batlike swarm of flying rodents, each the size of a small dog, They could strip a carcass in a matter of minutes, each carrying back some fluttering ribbon of flesh to the recesses of whatever dark cave the swarm had chosen for it's home. Moreover, some vart packs were rabid.
~Outlaw of Gor, page 26~ |
