Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 219 | Its horns are not yet cracked from fighting and age. |
| 5 | 220 | The smoothness of the horns, incidentally, is not a purely natural phenomenon. |
| 5 | 221 | The bulls polish them, themselves, rubbing them against sloping banks and trees. |
| 5 | 222 | Sometimes they will even paw down earth from the upper sides of washouts and then use the harder, exposed material beneath, dust scattering about, as a polishing surface. |
| 5 | 223 | This polishing apparently has the function of both cleaning and sharpening the horns, two processes useful in intraspecific aggression, the latter process improving their capacity as fighting instruments, in slashing and goring, and the former process tending to reduce the amount of infection in a herd resulting from such combats. |
| 5 | 224 | Polishing behavior in males thus appears to be selected for. |
| 5 | 225 | It has consequences, at any rate, which seem to be in the best interests of the kailiauk as a species. |
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Its horns are not yet cracked from fighting and age.
The smoothness of the horns, incidentally, is not a purely natural phenomenon.
The bulls polish them, themselves, rubbing them against sloping banks and trees.
Sometimes they will even paw down earth from the upper sides of washouts and then use the harder, exposed material beneath, dust scattering about, as a polishing surface.
This polishing apparently has the function of both cleaning and sharpening the horns, two processes useful in intraspecific aggression, the latter process improving their capacity as fighting instruments, in slashing and goring, and the former process tending to reduce the amount of infection in a herd resulting from such combats.
Polishing behavior in males thus appears to be selected for.
It has consequences, at any rate, which seem to be in the best interests of the kailiauk as a species.
- (Blood Brothers of Gor, Chapter )