Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 37 | 138 | In a View more quotes about sense">sense this had pleased me, suggesting that our quarry might be in the vicinity; in a sense it had displeased me, suggesting that abundant, alternative game might also be in the vicinity, the tabuk tending to travel in herds. |
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 37 | 135 | Twice we had heard the single note of the fleer from Cuwignaka, signaling the passage, overhead, of flighted ones, the Kinyanpi. |
| 37 | 136 | Once a tabuk, a prairie tabuk, tawny in the Barrens, single-horned, gazellelike, had grazed nearby. |
| 37 | 137 | It had browsed within feet of us. |
| 37 | 138 | In a sense this had pleased me, suggesting that our quarry might be in the vicinity; in a sense it had displeased me, suggesting that abundant, alternative game might also be in the vicinity, the tabuk tending to travel in herds. |
| 37 | 139 | Some varieties of prairie tabuk, interestingly, when sensing danger, tend to lie down. |
| 37 | 140 | This is counterinstinctual for most varieties of tabuk, which, when sensing danger, tend to freeze, in a tense, standing position and then, if alarmed further, tend to scurry away, depending on their agility and speed to escape predators. |
| 37 | 141 | The standing position, of course, as is the case with bipedalian creatures, tends to increase their scanning range. |
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Twice we had heard the single note of the fleer from Cuwignaka, signaling the passage, overhead, of flighted ones, the Kinyanpi.
Once a tabuk, a prairie tabuk, tawny in the Barrens, single-horned, gazellelike, had grazed nearby.
It had browsed within feet of us.
In a sense this had pleased me, suggesting that our quarry might be in the vicinity; in a sense it had displeased me, suggesting that abundant, alternative game might also be in the vicinity, the tabuk tending to travel in herds.
Some varieties of prairie tabuk, interestingly, when sensing danger, tend to lie down.
This is counterinstinctual for most varieties of tabuk, which, when sensing danger, tend to freeze, in a tense, standing position and then, if alarmed further, tend to scurry away, depending on their agility and speed to escape predators.
The standing position, of course, as is the case with bipedalian creatures, tends to increase their scanning range.
- (Blood Brothers of Gor)