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Birds

"...on the second level, that of the canopies, is found and incredible variety of birds, warblers, finches, mindars, the crested lit and the common lit, the fruit tindel, the yellow gim, tanagers, and some varieties of parrot and many more." (page 311, Book 13, Explorers of Gor)

Bosk

"It is a hugh, shambling animal, with a thick, humped neck and long, shaggy hair. It has a wide head and tiny red eyes, a temper to match that of a sleen, and two long, wicked horns that reach out from its head and suddenly curve forward to terminate in fearful points. Some of these horns, on larger animals, measured from tip to tip, exceed the length of two spears.....The bosk is said to be the Mother of the Wagon Peoples, and they reverence it as such." (page 4&5, Book 4, Nomads of Gor)

Gim

a horned gim, a small, owllike bird some four ounces in weight, common in the northern latitudes." (page 293, Book 13, Explorers of Gor)

Gints

I recalled, sunning themselves on exposed roots near the river, tiny fish. They were bulbous eyed and about six inches long, with tiny flipperlike lateral fins. They had both lungs and gills.....Sometimes they even sun themselves on the backs of resting or napping tharlarion .... and effective protection against most of its natural predators, in particular the black eel, which will not approach the sinuous reptiles.. ....these tiny fish, incidentally, are called gints." (page 300, Book 13, Explorers of Gor)

Kaiila

It is a silken, carnivorous, lofty creature, graceful, long-necked, smooth-gaited. It is viviparous and undoubtedly mamalian, though there is no suckling of the young. The young are born vicous and by instinct, as soon as they can struggle to their feet, they hunt....once it eats its fill, does not touch food for several days. The kaiila is extremely agile, and can easily outmaneuver the slower, more ponderous high tharlarion. It requires less food...than the tarn. A kaiila, which novrmally stands about 20 to 22 hands at the shoulder, can cover as much as six hundred pasangs in a single days riding. The head of the kaiila bears two large eyes, one on each side, but these eyes are triply lidded." (page 13&14, Book 4, Nomads of Gor)

Kailiauk

Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-trunked kailiauk, 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..." (page 2, Book 4, Nomads of Gor)

Larl

"...black larl, a huge catlike predator more commonly found in mountainous regions..." (page 2, Book 4, Nomads of Gor)

The larl is a predator, clawed and fanged, quite large, often standing seven feet at the shoulder....The larl's head is broad, sometimes more than two feet across, and shaped roughly like a triangle, giving its skull something of the cast of a viper's save that of course it is furred and the pupils of the eyes like the cat's and unlike the viper's can range from knifelike slits in the broad daylight to dark, inquisitive moons in the night. The pelt of the larl is normally tawny red or a sable black. The black larl, which is predominantly nocturnal, is maned, both male and female. The red larl, which hunts whenever hungry, regardless of the hour, and is the more common variety, possess no mane. Females of both varieties tend generally to be slightly smaller than the males but are quite as aggressive and some times even more dangerous, particularly in the late fall and winter of the year when they are likely to be hunting for their cubs." (page 18&19, Book 3, Priest-Kings of Gor)

Lice

"I withdrew some of the lice, the size of marbles, which tend to infest the wild tarns, and slapped them roughly into the mouth of the tarn, wiping them off on his tongue. I did this again and again, and the tarn stretched out his neck." (page 144, Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor)

Gant

"...a small, horned, web-footed aquatic fowl, broad-billed and broad-winged" (page 4, Book 6, Raiders of Gor)

Mindar

"Kisu pointed overhead. 'See the mindar,' he said. We looked up and saw a brightly plumaged, short-winged, sharp-billed bird. It was yellow and red. 'That is a forest bird,' said Kisu. The mindar is adapted for short, rapid flights, almost spurts, its wings beating in sudden flurries, hurrying it from branch to branch for camouflage in flower trees, and for drilling the bark of such trees for larvae and grubs. (page 282, Book 13, Explorers of Gor)

Sting/Needle flies

"Most sting flies, or needle flies, as the men from the south call them, originate in the delta, and similiar places, estuaries and such, as their eggs are laid on the stems of rence plants. As a result of the regularity of breeding and incubation times there tends, also, to be peak times for hatching. These peak times are also in part, it is thought, a function of a combination of natural factors, having to do with conditions in the delta, such as temperature and humidity, and , in particular, the relative stability of such conditions. Such hatcing times, as might be supposed are carefully monitored by rencers. Once outside the delta the sting flies, which spend most of their adult lives a solitary insects, tend to disperse. Of the millions of sting flies hatched in the delta each summer, usually over a period of four or five days, a few return each fall, to begin the cycle again. . . here could now be no mistaking teh steadily increasing volume of sound approaching from the west. It seemed to fill the delta. It is produced by the movement of the wings, the intense, almost unimaginably rapid beating of millions upon millions of small wings. . . The sting of the sting fly is painful, extremely so, but it is usually not, unless inflicted in great numbers, dangerous. Several stings, however, and even a few, depending on the individual, can produce nausea. Men have died from the stings of the flies but usually in such cases they have been inflicted in great numbers. A common reaction to the venom of the fly incidentally is a painful swelling in the area of the sting. A few such stings about the face and render a person unrecognizable. The swelling subsides, usually, in a few Ahn." (page161&162, Book 24, Vagabonds)

Qualae

As the tarn passed, it scattered into a scampering flock of tiny creatures, probably the small, three-toed mammals called qualae, dun-coloured and with a stiff brushy mane of black hair." (page 142, Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor)

Rock Spiders

They are called called rock spiders because of their habit of holding their legs folded beneath them, This habit and their size and coloration, usually brown and black suggests a rock and hence the name. It is a very nice piece of natural camouflage. (page 294, Book 13, Explorers of Gor)

Sleen

"I had hardly moved another step when in a flash of lightning, I saw the sleen, this time a fully grown animal, some nineteen or twenty feet long, charging toward me, swiftly, noiselessly, its ears straight against its pointed head, its fur slick with rain, its fangs bared. Its wide nocturnal eyes bright with the lust of the kill." (page 36, Book 2, Outlaw of Gor)

"I saw a pair of prairie sleen, smaller than the forest sleen but quite 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..." (page 2, Book 4, Nomads of Gor)

Spined Anteater

"A great spined anteater, more than twenty feet in length shuffled about the edges of the cam. We saw its long thing tongue dart in and out of its mouth. The blond-haired barbarian crept closer to me. 'It is harmless' I said 'unless you cross its path or disturb heavily clawed forefeet, uttering and enraged whistling noise, clubbing and slashing, lacerating and eviserate even a larl. It lived on the white ants and termites, of the vicinity, breaking apart their high, towering nests of toughened clay, some of them thirty-five feet in height, with its mighty claws, then darting its four-foot-long tongue , coated with adhesive saliva

Tarn

..the tarn, with its incredible musculature, aided undoubtedly by the somewhat lighter gravity of Gor, can with a spring and a sudden flurry of its giant wings lift both himself and his rider into the air. In Gorean, these birds are sometimes spoken of as Brothers of the Wind. The plumage of tarns is various, and they are bred for their colors as well as their strength and intelligence. Black tarns are used for night raids, white tarns in winter campaigns, and multicolored, resplendent tarns are bred for warriors who wish to ride proudly, regardless of the lack of camouflage. the most common tarn, however, is greenish brown....the Earth bird which the tarn most closely resembles is the hawk, with the exception that it has a crest somewhat of the nature of a jay's. Tarns, who are vicious things, are seldom more than half tamed and,....are carnivorous. It is not unknown for a tarn to attack and devour his own rider. They fear nothing but the tarn-goad." (page 51&52, Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor)

Tabuk

"Gripped in the talons of the tarn was the dead body of an antelope, one of the one-horned, yellow antelopes called tabuks that frequent the bright Ka-la-na thickets of Gor." (page 146, Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor)

"...the tarn...is suprisingly light for its size, this primarily having to do with the comparative hollowness of the bones, it is an extremely powerful bird, powerful even beyond what one would expect from such a monster .


	Three Oaks Haven \| Library Drinks \| Food \| Animals \| Castes \| Slave positions \| Slave clothing \| Begging of Use \| kajirae information Animals Birds "...on the second level, that of the canopies, is found and incredible variety of birds, warblers, finches, mindars, the crested lit and the common lit, the fruit tindel, the yellow gim, tanagers, and some varieties of parrot and many more." (page 311, Book 13, Explorers of Gor) Bosk "It is a hugh, shambling animal, with a thick, humped neck and long, shaggy hair. It has a wide head and tiny red eyes, a temper to match that of a sleen, and two long, wicked horns that reach out from its head and suddenly curve forward to terminate in fearful points. Some of these horns, on larger animals, measured from tip to tip, exceed the length of two spears.....The bosk is said to be the Mother of the Wagon Peoples, and they reverence it as such." (page 4&5, Book 4, Nomads of Gor) Gim a horned gim, a small, owllike bird some four ounces in weight, common in the northern latitudes." (page 293, Book 13, Explorers of Gor) Gints I recalled, sunning themselves on exposed roots near the river, tiny fish. They were bulbous eyed and about six inches long, with tiny flipperlike lateral fins. They had both lungs and gills.....Sometimes they even sun themselves on the backs of resting or napping tharlarion .... and effective protection against most of its natural predators, in particular the black eel, which will not approach the sinuous reptiles.. ....these tiny fish, incidentally, are called gints." (page 300, Book 13, Explorers of Gor) Kaiila It is a silken, carnivorous, lofty creature, graceful, long-necked, smooth-gaited. It is viviparous and undoubtedly mamalian, though there is no suckling of the young. The young are born vicous and by instinct, as soon as they can struggle to their feet, they hunt....once it eats its fill, does not touch food for several days. The kaiila is extremely agile, and can easily outmaneuver the slower, more ponderous high tharlarion. It requires less food...than the tarn. A kaiila, which novrmally stands about 20 to 22 hands at the shoulder, can cover as much as six hundred pasangs in a single days riding. The head of the kaiila bears two large eyes, one on each side, but these eyes are triply lidded." (page 13&14, Book 4, Nomads of Gor) Kailiauk Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-trunked kailiauk, 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..." (page 2, Book 4, Nomads of Gor) Larl "...black larl, a huge catlike predator more commonly found in mountainous regions..." (page 2, Book 4, Nomads of Gor) The larl is a predator, clawed and fanged, quite large, often standing seven feet at the shoulder....The larl's head is broad, sometimes more than two feet across, and shaped roughly like a triangle, giving its skull something of the cast of a viper's save that of course it is furred and the pupils of the eyes like the cat's and unlike the viper's can range from knifelike slits in the broad daylight to dark, inquisitive moons in the night. The pelt of the larl is normally tawny red or a sable black. The black larl, which is predominantly nocturnal, is maned, both male and female. The red larl, which hunts whenever hungry, regardless of the hour, and is the more common variety, possess no mane. Females of both varieties tend generally to be slightly smaller than the males but are quite as aggressive and some times even more dangerous, particularly in the late fall and winter of the year when they are likely to be hunting for their cubs." (page 18&19, Book 3, Priest-Kings of Gor) Lice "I withdrew some of the lice, the size of marbles, which tend to infest the wild tarns, and slapped them roughly into the mouth of the tarn, wiping them off on his tongue. I did this again and again, and the tarn stretched out his neck." (page 144, Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor) Gant "...a small, horned, web-footed aquatic fowl, broad-billed and broad-winged" (page 4, Book 6, Raiders of Gor) Mindar "Kisu pointed overhead. 'See the mindar,' he said. We looked up and saw a brightly plumaged, short-winged, sharp-billed bird. It was yellow and red. 'That is a forest bird,' said Kisu. The mindar is adapted for short, rapid flights, almost spurts, its wings beating in sudden flurries, hurrying it from branch to branch for camouflage in flower trees, and for drilling the bark of such trees for larvae and grubs. (page 282, Book 13, Explorers of Gor) Sting/Needle flies "Most sting flies, or needle flies, as the men from the south call them, originate in the delta, and similiar places, estuaries and such, as their eggs are laid on the stems of rence plants. As a result of the regularity of breeding and incubation times there tends, also, to be peak times for hatching. These peak times are also in part, it is thought, a function of a combination of natural factors, having to do with conditions in the delta, such as temperature and humidity, and , in particular, the relative stability of such conditions. Such hatcing times, as might be supposed are carefully monitored by rencers. Once outside the delta the sting flies, which spend most of their adult lives a solitary insects, tend to disperse. Of the millions of sting flies hatched in the delta each summer, usually over a period of four or five days, a few return each fall, to begin the cycle again. . . here could now be no mistaking teh steadily increasing volume of sound approaching from the west. It seemed to fill the delta. It is produced by the movement of the wings, the intense, almost unimaginably rapid beating of millions upon millions of small wings. . . The sting of the sting fly is painful, extremely so, but it is usually not, unless inflicted in great numbers, dangerous. Several stings, however, and even a few, depending on the individual, can produce nausea. Men have died from the stings of the flies but usually in such cases they have been inflicted in great numbers. A common reaction to the venom of the fly incidentally is a painful swelling in the area of the sting. A few such stings about the face and render a person unrecognizable. The swelling subsides, usually, in a few Ahn." (page161&162, Book 24, Vagabonds) Qualae As the tarn passed, it scattered into a scampering flock of tiny creatures, probably the small, three-toed mammals called qualae, dun-coloured and with a stiff brushy mane of black hair." (page 142, Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor) Rock Spiders They are called called rock spiders because of their habit of holding their legs folded beneath them, This habit and their size and coloration, usually brown and black suggests a rock and hence the name. It is a very nice piece of natural camouflage. (page 294, Book 13, Explorers of Gor) Sleen "I had hardly moved another step when in a flash of lightning, I saw the sleen, this time a fully grown animal, some nineteen or twenty feet long, charging toward me, swiftly, noiselessly, its ears straight against its pointed head, its fur slick with rain, its fangs bared. Its wide nocturnal eyes bright with the lust of the kill." (page 36, Book 2, Outlaw of Gor) "I saw a pair of prairie sleen, smaller than the forest sleen but quite 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..." (page 2, Book 4, Nomads of Gor) Spined Anteater "A great spined anteater, more than twenty feet in length shuffled about the edges of the cam. We saw its long thing tongue dart in and out of its mouth. The blond-haired barbarian crept closer to me. 'It is harmless' I said 'unless you cross its path or disturb heavily clawed forefeet, uttering and enraged whistling noise, clubbing and slashing, lacerating and eviserate even a larl. It lived on the white ants and termites, of the vicinity, breaking apart their high, towering nests of toughened clay, some of them thirty-five feet in height, with its mighty claws, then darting its four-foot-long tongue , coated with adhesive saliva Tarn ..the tarn, with its incredible musculature, aided undoubtedly by the somewhat lighter gravity of Gor, can with a spring and a sudden flurry of its giant wings lift both himself and his rider into the air. In Gorean, these birds are sometimes spoken of as Brothers of the Wind. The plumage of tarns is various, and they are bred for their colors as well as their strength and intelligence. Black tarns are used for night raids, white tarns in winter campaigns, and multicolored, resplendent tarns are bred for warriors who wish to ride proudly, regardless of the lack of camouflage. the most common tarn, however, is greenish brown....the Earth bird which the tarn most closely resembles is the hawk, with the exception that it has a crest somewhat of the nature of a jay's. Tarns, who are vicious things, are seldom more than half tamed and,....are carnivorous. It is not unknown for a tarn to attack and devour his own rider. They fear nothing but the tarn-goad." (page 51&52, Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor) Tabuk "Gripped in the talons of the tarn was the dead body of an antelope, one of the one-horned, yellow antelopes called tabuks that frequent the bright Ka-la-na thickets of Gor." (page 146, Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor) "...the tarn...is suprisingly light for its size, this primarily having to do with the comparative hollowness of the bones, it is an extremely powerful bird, powerful even beyond what one would expect from such a monster .