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Like most native fauna, goannas are rather wary of human intrusions into their habitat, and most likely run away (into the scrub, up a tree, or into the water, depending on the species). A goanna is a rather swift mover, and when pressed, sprints short distances on its hind legs.
Giant goannas and humans overlapped in time in Pleistocene Australia, but there is no evidence that they directly encountered each other. [33] Wonambi naracoortensis was a non-venomous snake of 5–6 m (16–20 ft) in length. It was an ambush predator living at waterholes located in natural sun traps and killed its prey by constriction.
It is sometimes called the Bell's phase lace monitor. [10] The species is commonly known as lace monitor, tree goanna, or lacy. [11] It was known as wirriga to the Eora and Darug inhabitants of the Sydney basin, [12] and gugaa to the Wiradjuri people of southern New South Wales. [13]
In 1992, the High Court of Australia reversed Justice Blackburn's ruling and handed down its decision in the Mabo Case, declaring the previous legal concept of terra nullius to be invalid and confirming the existence of native title in Australia. [195] [196] Indigenous Australians began to serve in parliaments from the late 1960s. [197]
In some Aboriginal languages, the sand goanna is called bungarra, [8] a term also commonly used by non-Aboriginal people in Western Australia. In Pitjantjatjara and other central Australian languages it is called "Tingka". Two subspecies are recognised, Varanus gouldii gouldii (Schlegel, 1837) – Gould's goanna
Jabanungga was born in 1952 in Yuendumu [2] a settlement established by the Federal government to deliver rations and welfare services to the Walpiri people. Raised as a Walpiri, he had eight brothers and eight sisters and lived in a humpy and hunted kangaroos, goannas, lizards and snakes. He received a traditional Aboriginal education ...
Goanna is an Australian rock band which formed in 1977 in Geelong as The Goanna Band with mainstay Shane Howard as singer-songwriter and guitarist. The group integrated social protest with popular music and reached the Top 20 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart with "Solid Rock" (1982) and "Let the Franklin Flow" (released under the name Gordon Franklin & the Wilderness Ensemble ...
Locations and events associated with the Wati kutjara are frequently the subject of Aboriginal Art from Balgo and its outstations. [3]James Cowan's book Two men dreaming [6] draws upon Wati kutjara narratives, although the place-names appear to have been disguised.