Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 75 | Wild View more quotes about marsh">marsh gants, captured, even as young as gantlings, cannot be domesticated; on the other hand, eggs, at the hatching point, gathered from floating gant nests, are sometimes brought to the island; the hatchlings, interestingly, if not permitted to see an adult gant for the first week of their life, then adopt the rence island as their home, and show no fear of human beings; they will come and go in the wild as they please, feeding and flying, but will always, and frequently, return to the rence island, their hatching place; if the rence island, however, should be destroyed, they revert entirely to the wild; in the domesticated state, it might be mentioned, they will often come to whistles, and will invariably permit themselves to be picked up and handled. |
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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 72 | A child was crying out, chasing it. |
| 3 | 73 | I heard some domestic marsh gants making their piping call. |
| 3 | 74 | They wandered freely on the island, leaving it to feed, then returning to it later. |
| 3 | 75 | Wild marsh gants, captured, even as young as gantlings, cannot be domesticated; on the other hand, eggs, at the hatching point, gathered from floating gant nests, are sometimes brought to the island; the hatchlings, interestingly, if not permitted to see an adult gant for the first week of their life, then adopt the rence island as their home, and show no fear of human beings; they will come and go in the wild as they please, feeding and flying, but will always, and frequently, return to the rence island, their hatching place; if the rence island, however, should be destroyed, they revert entirely to the wild; in the domesticated state, it might be mentioned, they will often come to whistles, and will invariably permit themselves to be picked up and handled. |
| 3 | 76 | There were several reasonably important looking individuals gathered about, and, as it turned out, these were headmen from various other rence islands in the vicinity. |
| 3 | 77 | A given rence island usually holds about fifty or sixty persons. |
| 3 | 78 | The men from several of these islands had cooperated in my pursuit and capture. |
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A child was crying out, chasing it.
I heard some domestic marsh gants making their piping call.
They wandered freely on the island, leaving it to feed, then returning to it later.
Wild marsh gants, captured, even as young as gantlings, cannot be domesticated; on the other hand, eggs, at the hatching point, gathered from floating gant nests, are sometimes brought to the island; the hatchlings, interestingly, if not permitted to see an adult gant for the first week of their life, then adopt the rence island as their home, and show no fear of human beings; they will come and go in the wild as they please, feeding and flying, but will always, and frequently, return to the rence island, their hatching place; if the rence island, however, should be destroyed, they revert entirely to the wild; in the domesticated state, it might be mentioned, they will often come to whistles, and will invariably permit themselves to be picked up and handled.
There were several reasonably important looking individuals gathered about, and, as it turned out, these were headmen from various other rence islands in the vicinity.
A given rence island usually holds about fifty or sixty persons.
The men from several of these islands had cooperated in my pursuit and capture.
- (Raiders of Gor)