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An all-purpose draught animal, beast of burden, meat resource, and source of thick hides, farmed in the lower [[Ramtops]] by [[Mort]]'s father [[Lezek]].  A test of dexterity in the winter is to move in a Tharga enclosure without having your boots ripped off by the suction. Also referenced by [[Lu-Tze]].  
An all-purpose draught animal, beast of burden, meat resource, and source of thick hides, farmed in the lower [[Ramtops]] by [[Mort]]'s father [[Lezek]].  A test of dexterity in the winter is to move in a Tharga enclosure without having your boots ripped off by the suction. Also referenced by [[Lu-Tze]].  
The '''tharga''' is notable, zoologically, for having a separate brain for each leg. This system must have some value in the evolutionary process, but sometimes the left/fore leg knoweth not what the right/hind leg doth, with disastrous results.


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Latest revision as of 03:37, 15 November 2014

An all-purpose draught animal, beast of burden, meat resource, and source of thick hides, farmed in the lower Ramtops by Mort's father Lezek. A test of dexterity in the winter is to move in a Tharga enclosure without having your boots ripped off by the suction. Also referenced by Lu-Tze.

The tharga is notable, zoologically, for having a separate brain for each leg. This system must have some value in the evolutionary process, but sometimes the left/fore leg knoweth not what the right/hind leg doth, with disastrous results.