Animals

different sources also identify this as the bobtailed lizard, and the stumpy-tail, but contemporary elders say it is the sleepy lizard.

- a very large brown snake, not poisonous.- it is respected but rarely found on the peninsula (more common to the north, at least in the past).- there is a story about this snake in the Bookayana Stories.

- shark is the totem of the southern region.- gurada is central in a Dreaming story.- there are also other words recorded for shark. Louisa Egginton recorded gurada as specifically the carpet shark, or possibly even banded carpet shark.

- gadli are important in the Dreaming about winda the owl.- according to Howitt, gadli Dreaming is part of the garrdi totem.

seems to mean literally long ears.

literally sea-vermin.