A-C
ant, marcher (noun): inhabiting the rainforest floor, they appear in swarms, known in the jungles of Schendi as ‘The Marchers.’ These are aggressive carnivorous insects. Each is about 2 inches long, with a shiny black exoskeleton and two antennae. Their name is derived from their, apparently seasonal, marches through the jungle in a single column, yards wide and pasangs in length. They may number in the millions, their paths widening to as much as 500 feet when they overtake, swarm over, and devour all flesh, living or dead, in their path. Their bite is extremely painful, but not poisonous. Their victims die from being weakened from relentless attack, being overcome until they are still. Tarl Cabot and the small men, led a column of Marchers, by baiting them with fresh meat, the ants, weaving like a whispering black snake through the jungle until they overran an encampment of the Mamba people, Cabot's intended target. (Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page399-403)
anteater
(noun): more
than six varieties inhabit the rainforests of Schendi. The great spined anteater
grows to 20 feet in length and feeds on white ants or termites, breaking apart
their towering nests of toughened clay with mighty claws then darting its
four-foot saliva coated tongue, drawing thousands into its narrow tube-like
mouth. (Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 293 and 312)
arctic
gant
(noun): migratory
bird that nests on cliffs in the Hrimgar Mountains, the southern border of the
polar north. (Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 196)
armored gatch (noun): a marsupial mammal which inhabits the rain forests inland of Schendi (Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 312)
arthropod (noun): a creature found in the tunnels of the Nest of the Priest-Kings. It is eight feet long and a yard high with a multi-segmented body and eight legs. Its eyes are on long stalks. (Book 3: Priest Kings of Gor, page 82)
baleen
whale (noun): bluish
blunt-finned whale, hunted by the Red Hunters (Book 12:
Beasts of Gor, page 334)
bint (noun): fanged, small carnivorous freshwater marsh eel which inhabits the rivers of the rainforests inland of Schendi; a large school of bints can strip a carcass in minutes. (Book 13: Explorers of Gor, pages 267, 271)
bosk
(noun): a huge, shambling animal, with a thick, humped neck and long,
shaggy hair. It has a wide head and tiny red eyes, a fearful temper, and four
long, wicked, curved and pointed horns. The horns, from tip to tip may measure
two spears in length. It is for good reason the bosk is called ‘The Mother of
the Wagon Peoples’. Its flesh and milk furnish food and drink, shelter is made
from its hides, and clothing from its tanned and sewn skins. Weapons are made
from the leather of its hump and many tools and implements from its bone and
horns. Even the dung is dried and used for fuel. The bosk is reverenced and the
penalties for its slaughter without reason are extreme.
The meat may be roasted, broiled, boiled, stewed, fried, or dried.
(Book 3: Priest Kings of
Gor, page 45; Book 4: Nomads of Gor,
pages 4-5; Book 6: Raiders of Gor,
page 26; Book 8: Hunters of Gor,
page 34; Book 16: Guardsman of Gor,
page 234)
brown
vart
(noun): carnivorous animals that rest clinging
upside down on branches.