Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 37 | 142 | The response disposition of lying down, apparently selected for in some varieties of tabuk, tends to be useful in an environment in which high grass is plentiful and one of the most common predators depends primarily on vision to detect and locate its prey. |
| 37 | 143 | This predator, as would be expected, normally attacks from a direction in which its shadow does not precede it. |
| 37 | 144 | Any tabuk, of course, if it is sufficiently alarmed, will bound away. |
| 37 | 145 | It can attain short-term speeds of from eighty to ninety pasangs an ahn. |
| 37 | 146 | Its evasive leaps, in the Gorean gravity, can cover from thirty to forty feet in length, and attain heights of ten to fifteen feet. |
| 37 | 147 | Once we had heard two notes of the fleer, but, that time, as it had turned out, the source of the signal had not been Cuwignaka but, to our frustration, an actual fleer. |
| 37 | 148 | I sat back, against the rear of the pit. |
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The response disposition of lying down, apparently selected for in some varieties of tabuk, tends to be useful in an environment in which high grass is plentiful and one of the most common predators depends primarily on vision to detect and locate its prey.
This predator, as would be expected, normally attacks from a direction in which its shadow does not precede it.
Any tabuk, of course, if it is sufficiently alarmed, will bound away.
It can attain short-term speeds of from eighty to ninety pasangs an ahn.
Its evasive leaps, in the Gorean gravity, can cover from thirty to forty feet in length, and attain heights of ten to fifteen feet.
Once we had heard two notes of the fleer, but, that time, as it had turned out, the source of the signal had not been Cuwignaka but, to our frustration, an actual fleer.
I sat back, against the rear of the pit.
- (Blood Brothers of Gor, Chapter )