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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Ants
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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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