Language:                                  Name

Kriol:                                           

Marra:                                         

Ritharrŋu/Wägilak:                    Bäpi (this is the name for all snakes)

Ngandi:                                       

Wubuy:                                       

Ngalakan:                                   

Alawa:                                         

Rembarrnga:                                          

English name:                             Western Brown Snake

Scientific:                                    Pseudonaja nuchalis

Group name for Snakes

Ritharrŋu/Wägilak:                     Bäpi

It lives across all Australia in desert, woodlands and grasslands.

They eat lizards, frogs, birds, mammals.

The female lays 12-14 eggs when conditions are good

VENOMOUS

Snout-vent length: up to 1.5m.
Many colour forms; head and back of neck may be black, and in a ‘v’ or ‘w’ shape; may have a few dark cross-bands on back; belly cream, yellow, orange or grey.