Keltrian - Useful Terms

== Flora and Fauna ==
(Note: in many cases, I've used Earth terms for local items, for practicality)
Quite a few of these animals and plants do appear on the other planets in the Keltrian Universe. However, some are unique to the planet Tara. You will work out it when you come across them in the stories
Flora and Fauna:
Aracnzi - a huge
spider native to Tara
Antelo - a relative of antelopes, about 1.2m tall, males
have a single set of antlers 
Ants - see special interest 
Baboos - a
type of monkey, human-sized, look like large orangutans
Beernuts - have milk in the large inner nut that tastes like beer and also a milky nut fruit like a coconut. On the outside, they have orange pulpy fruit and
a thin green/orange skin.
Bees - larger
than the earth varieties but do the same job and look similar
Bell-berry -
succulent bell-shaped blueberries, grow on a bush in trees
Berserker - a relative of bears, they have a red and white marking on their faces, mostly eat plants and fish but are aggressive if challenged or they have young 
Bighorns - a type
of cattle of the shorter variety
Bird Barbs -
a moderate size bush with barbed seeds that cover a sweet fruity flesh
Boa - A form of slider (snake) that is Sentient and they grow very large
Brooder - female
ants that lay eggs for the queen ant
Buzzes - a relative of the fly 
Camla - similar to angora alpacas in looks and temperament. They had shaggy coats, longish necks and legs but they have a more bovine mouth structure indicating they prefer grasses to shrubs
Canine - huge black dog that resembles a short-muzzled
Dalmatian dog, sentient, ancestors to the Dog-Shifters.
Catalos - a large tawny type of cat similar to Panthersbut bigger
Carboos - large-antlered beasts that were excellent eating and liked cold weather climates.
Cluckers - a type of chickens
Cuttail - very large spotted cat, up to 1.5m long, 1.4m high with long canines and claws and a short stubby tail. 
Dragons - see special interest
Eagle - Giant bird similar to Earth eagles in body shape but they stand 1.2m tall and have massive wings 
Flickers - small simian with long limbs and tail, very intelligent, they can send images to magicians. They can change gender for sex, but only the Prime can sire progeny
Flyers - birds
Glimmers - small chameleon type lizard
Jumpers - frogs
Lanky - a form of a horse, they have longer ears more like donkeys
Longears - a type of rabbit but very big
Milky-nuts - like macadamia nuts
Pelly - closer to a horse than a lanky is as they have longer legs for running
Pomelo - a type of grapefruit
Reptii - a reptilian animal with pig-like behaviour and shape that lays eggs in communal burrows, they hatch after 8 weeks
Ratters - a type of rat
Rohans - reptilian type bird, taste like a peppery chicken and lays eggs
Sawtooths - a large sea predator somewhat like a shark but they are of the huge variety as they can grow to some 20m long
Scurries - lizards (Blue Tongues - giant lizard)
Selkie - resembles a fur seal
Shukra - sugar or sugarcane 
Silversides - a type of freshwater fish that can grow to 60cm long and are good eating
Slider - snakes, general terminology, not sentient
like the Boas are
Snapper - carnivorous plant, being close to one activated its jaws. The plant has the ability to fold in the serrated teeth on their lips and they could even spit
acid several metres at the unwary
Snuffler - a type of pig
Woollies - a long-legged cross between a goat and a sheep
Wolf - very similar to Earth's grey wolves
Wyverns - don't have the front legs like dragons but do have finger claws on their wings, grow to about 60cm in body length with a tail of equal length. Their wing-span is equal to their total length.
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== Items ==
Auto - small personal car
Bandolin - looks similar to a banjo
Buggy - car made
by the Dog-Shifters, it has solar-panels on the roof, designed for four people and can handle rougher roads
Carrier - a type of bus with bench seating
Coca - chocolate/cocoa
Flatbed - a type of truck
Kaboo - an alcoholic spirit - quite potent
Kaffe - coffee
Mad - multi-application device)
Puller - small tractor style vehicle
Rider - an Auto used as a taxi 
Reaper - it was attached to a Puller and it cut grain stalks and tied them into small bundles
Seeder - designed to place seeds into furrows
Thresher - removed seeds from grain stalks
Travellers - electric vehicles - generic name
Trike - hybrid moped or scooter but has two small back wheels, box style carriers, the seat long enough for two people and it is battery powered, electric motor driven
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== Special Interest ==
=== Ants ===
Race 	Height	Eat 	Primary colours 	Environment
Brown 	40cm 	Omnivores 	Dark browns 	Found on the plains
Red 	80cm 	Carnivorous	Blood red and black 	Prefer scrubby bushland
Green 	1m 	Vegetarian 	Green bodies with yellow legs	Found in the forests
Black 	1.5m 	Vegetarian 	Black, but they may have 
different coloured markings 
like white or red stripes	Common, most environments
Soldier	1.7 	Omnivores 	Mottled browns and creams
with markings	Common, most environments
Giant 	2m 	Omnivores 	Russet-brown with markings 	They were considered ext
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=== Dragons ===
**Information may vary a little between books**
* Are a matriarchal race. 
* Males didn't grow as big as their dames or live as long either.
* They have leather looking, bat-shaped wings, long necks with long muzzles and short, cat-shaped ears.
* Unlike wyverns, they also have two short, front-facing arms, while their back legs are long with backward-pointing knees and thick, muscular thighs.
* They have hard scales and bony ridges along their muzzles, legs, backs and tail, while their underbellies have softer and smoother scales. 
* They have a very flexible, slim tail that is close to the same length as the rest of their body including their long necks and head. 
* They come in a variety of colours often a darker tone on the back and lighter on the underbelly.
* They don't breathe fire, but they can temporarily paralyse prey with their breathe if you get to close. 
* They can mind talk with magicians and will bond with them when they first hatch. 
* They can also become invisible when they flew in daylight.
* On average, dragons stand 25-30cm high when born. 
* 50-60cm high is average for a two-year-old. 
* Growth would slow once they reached a 100-110cm high at around ten years of age. 
* It could take another hundred years to get to 150cm high, and five hundred or so years to get to 200cm tall. 
* Few dragons grew past 220cm as that mostly meant they were over two thousand years old.
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