tjuninguṟu ankupai tjuṯa

lizards and snakes

kuniya

woma python (Aspitites ramsayi)

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Kuniyangku ngampu tjuṯa liringka para-tjunkula waṉaṟa katipai.

The woma python can carry it’s eggs by putting them around it’s neck (body just behind it’s head).

mutingka

type of skink

id:9860 order:387

Mutingka panya pilangka ngaṟapai tjaṉpitjarangka.

The skink lives in plain country covered with grass/spinifex.

ngiyaṟi

miniri

mountain devil, thorny devil (Moloch horridus)

id:9861 order:388

Ngiyaṟi waṯa minga puḻkatjarangka rawa ngaṟala minga tjuṯa ngalkupai.

The thorny devil stands for a long time at a tree trunk full of ants and eats lots of them.

inturkulya

carpet snake (Morelia bredli)

id:9862 order:390

Inturkulya tjuṯa Utjula tjanala kutju nyinapai.

The carpet snake just lives around Areyonga and places (near there).

liru

king brown snake (Pseudechis australis) or any poisonous snake

id:9863 order:391

Liru tjuṯangku aṉangu patjaṟa iluntankupai kala nyakula pungkupai.

Poisonous snakes bite people and kill them so when we see them we kill them.

paṉakuṟa

desert death adder (Acanthopis pyrrus)

id:9864 order:392

Liru paṉakuṟa taḻingka nyinapai munu aṉangu patjaṟa mapalku iluntankupai.

The desert death adder lives in sandhill country and when it bites people it kills them straight away.