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).

tjimpilka

dragon lizard

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Tjimpilka taḻi tjaṉpitjarangka wala puḻka para-wirtjapakaṟinkupai.

The dragon lizard darts around rapidly on sandhills covered with spinifex.

mutingka

type of skink

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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

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Liru tjuṯangku aṉangu patjaṟa iluntankupai kala nyakula pungkupai.

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