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‎Soraks: Martian Cats

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	Calots originally appeared in [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' "Barsoom" novels.		Calots originally appeared in [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' "Barsoom" novels.

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		+	== Martian Millipedes ==
		+	TO_DO
		+	"millipedes half-a-mile long"
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		+	== Martian Chameleons ==
		+	"chameleons invisible in the light"

	== Other Life on Mars ==		== Other Life on Mars ==

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 Soraks, strange, six-legged [[Martian_Wildlife#Soraks:_Martian_Cats|Martian Cats]], like Earthly cats, are believed to be sentient.  Soraks have long flourished in the [[Dreamlands]], and are sometimes encountered on waking Mars even today.
-For more details, see the entry in Cats for "[[Cat#Martian_Cats|Cats From Mars]]".
+For more details, see the entry in Cats for "[[Cat#Cats_from_Mars_and_Barsoom|Cats From Mars]]".
 ==Hormad==

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 ==Soraks: Martian Cats==
 [[File:Martiancat.png|200px|thumb|right|Cat from Mars]]
 Soraks, strange, six-legged [[Martian_Wildlife#Soraks:_Martian_Cats|Martian Cats]], like Earthly cats, are believed to be sentient.  Soraks have long flourished in the [[Dreamlands]], and are sometimes encountered on waking Mars even today.
-For more details, see the entry in Martian Wildlife for "[[Cat#Martian_Cats|Cats From Mars]]".
+For more details, see the entry in Cats for "[[Cat#Martian_Cats|Cats From Mars]]".
 ==Hormad==

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 [[File:Martiancat.png|200px|thumb|right|Cat from Mars]]
-Soraks, strange, six-legged [[Martian_Wildlife#Soraks:_Martian_Cats|Martian Cats]], like Earthly cats, are believed to be sentient.  Soraks have long flourished in the [[Dreamlands]], and are sometimes encountered on waking Mars even today.  For more details, see the entry in Martian Wildlife for "[[Cat#Martian_Cats|Cats From Mars]]".
+Soraks, strange, six-legged [[Martian_Wildlife#Soraks:_Martian_Cats|Martian Cats]], like Earthly cats, are believed to be sentient.  Soraks have long flourished in the [[Dreamlands]], and are sometimes encountered on waking Mars even today.
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 Plant Men originally appeared in [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' "Barsoom" novels.

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 [[File:Martiancat.png|200px|thumb|right|Cat from Mars]]
-Soraks, strange six-legged [[Martian]] Cats, have long flourished in the [[Dreamlands]] of Earth and the Martian Dreamland of [[Barsoom]], and are sometimes encountered on waking Mars even today, where from hiding they seem to be carefully watching over and searching the cold, silent sands of their doomed world, as if searching or waiting for something important, or perhaps observing intruders into the virtually dead Martian wastelands merely out of typical cat-like curiosity.
+Soraks, strange, six-legged [[Martian_Wildlife#Soraks:_Martian_Cats|Martian Cats]], like Earthly cats, are believed to be sentient.  Soraks have long flourished in the [[Dreamlands]], and are sometimes encountered on waking Mars even today.  For more details, see the entry in Martian Wildlife for "[[Cat#Martian_Cats|Cats From Mars]]".
 =="White Apes"==

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 [[Mars]] and its [[Barsoom|Dreamlands]] are home to a variety of strange and monstrous creatures.  Just a few examples of the creatures that can be found there include:
 =="White Apes"==
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 Red Weed is the creation of [[H.G. Wells]], from his story ''War of the Worlds''.

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 A strange, nocturnal or subterranean, slug-like parasitic creature which clings turban-like to the top of a humanoid victim's head, dissolves the flesh, skull, and parts of the brain for food, and then controls its host, driving the remnants of its victim down into the darkness of hidden vaults beneath the ruins of Martian cities, to a near-immortal fate worse than death.  See [[Leech of Yoh-Vombis]] for more details.
-Leeches of Yoh-Vombis are the creation of [[Clark Ashton Smith]] from his story "The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis".
+Leeches of Yoh-Vombis are the creation of [[Clark Ashton Smith]] from his story "[[The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis (fiction)]]".
 ==Red Weed (Red Creeper)==
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-The Vortlup is a creation of [[Clark Ashton Smith]], and appears in his Martian stories as a pack animal native to Mars, and roughly equivalent to a llama, camel, or dromedary.
+The Vortlup is a creation of [[Clark Ashton Smith]], and appears in his Martian stories as a pack animal native to Mars, and roughly equivalent to a llama, camel, or dromedary.  (In an early draft of "[[The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis (fiction)]]", the Vortlup apparently appears as a mat of carnivorous black moss.)

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	==Red Weed (Red Creeper)==		==Red Weed (Red Creeper)==
		+	[[File:Redweed.png\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Red Weed]]
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	The [[Martian (Uliri)\|Uliri]] invasion may also brought with them, perhaps accidentally, the "Red Weed" or "Red Creeper", a dense red vine that glows purple at night, tastes vaguely metallic, grows and reproduces explosively in water, and shares the Uliri vulnerability to Earth's bacteria. The Red Creeper seems to have flourished on Mars, where it has flooded the Martian canals, choking whole regions of that dying world off from a much-needed water supply; it is likely that the Red Weed, like the Uliri, are an invasive species alien even to Mars, with the Red Creeper either serving as food for the Uliri invaders, or trailing along with them as microscopic spoors and spreading unnoticed or poorly understood by the Uliri due to their alien disregard for sanitation, disease, and decomposition.		The [[Martian (Uliri)\|Uliri]] invasion may also brought with them, perhaps accidentally, the "Red Weed" or "Red Creeper", a dense red vine that glows purple at night, tastes vaguely metallic, grows and reproduces explosively in water, and shares the Uliri vulnerability to Earth's bacteria. The Red Creeper seems to have flourished on Mars, where it has flooded the Martian canals, choking whole regions of that dying world off from a much-needed water supply; it is likely that the Red Weed, like the Uliri, are an invasive species alien even to Mars, with the Red Creeper either serving as food for the Uliri invaders, or trailing along with them as microscopic spoors and spreading unnoticed or poorly understood by the Uliri due to their alien disregard for sanitation, disease, and decomposition.

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 ==Vortlup==
 [[File:Vortlup.png‎|200px|thumb|right|Martian pack animal, Vortlup....]]
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 Their food-supplies and water-barrels were carried on the backs of three of those curious mammals called vortlups, which, with their elongated legs and necks, and horny-plated bodies, might seemingly have been some fabulous combination of llama and saurian. These animals, though extravagantly ugly, were tame and obedient, and were well-adapted to desert travel, being able to go without water for months at a time [and] wholly insensible to the blowing sand in their scaly mail...."

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 Today, Calots are almost never seen outside of the Martian Dreamland of Barsoom, and like many other Martian life forms are believed to be extinct on waking Mars, though a few examples may still live wild in dark corners of Mars working together in feral hunting packs on dead Martian sea bottoms and serving as hunting hounds in the company of [[Martian (Green)|Green Martian Raiders]], if reports by Martian cryptozoologists and other eccentrics are to be believed.
-Unlike Martian cats (Soraks), which have intelligence comparable to humans, Calots are not known for any ability to speak languages, use tools, or develop complex social behavior; Calot intelligence may only be slightly higher than that of dolphins and whales or great apes.  Nevertheless, in the Dreamlands these Martian "dogs" display a remarkable level of intelligence and loyalty for an animal, going to great lengths to protect and help those who treat Calots with kindness.
+Unlike Martian cats (Soraks), which have intelligence comparable to humans, Calots are not known for any ability to speak languages, use tools, or develop complex social behavior; Calot intelligence may only be slightly higher than that of dolphins and whales or great apes.  Nevertheless, in the Dreamlands these Martian "dogs" display a remarkable level of intelligence and loyalty for an animal, going to great lengths to protect and help those who treat them with kindness, often showing particularly great affection for human Dreamers.
 Calots originally appeared in [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' "Barsoom" novels.