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Jimmy Nébni: Zo Bird
Explains how the Zo bird (fawn-crested bowerbird) stores its seeds in a kind of granary Recorded by Nick Evans from Jimmy Nébni, near Bimadbn village, 9/8/2012
Zo Bird
| Zowende yam dene ym: |
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| The way of the zo bird is like this: |
| mng̅ ge yramte. Yna mng̅ gseymn bandan yramte wén praprngama |
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| when it will build a nest, it will buildit with old dry pieces of branch |
| mnegta yna mng̅ yramte yande sarng̅ e |
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| it's building it because that's its storehouse |
| yna sarng̅n nne bä yleuti |
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| in that house it will store the food |
| yande nne bä yngm dene |
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| its food is (like) this: |
| sema kp |
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| sema seeds |
| qésér kp ynane bä ynazne gte bä yémindi |
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| it brings qésér seeds and leaves them lying there |
| bä yagres ym yna geym yna kp wräbst mng̅ geym, dene yame äte yramte mokäm ynao yramte |
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| it has another house for laying eggs, it builds its nest like how the mok builds its nest |
| bä yagres ym bä yna kp gte derebtanga |
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| it is different like a mok's next, where it lays its eggs |
| bä ynane dene nne mng̅ gseymn, yande yam dene ym |
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| (comparing nest and storehouse) the purpose of that storehouse is like this |
| bm nung.... |
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| If you want to burn (the storehouse) with a fire |
| nu tkma qékiba gte é |
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| put a container of water there |
| bnz geä tézer yna mng̅n |
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| if you set fire to the storehouse |
| bä mete ym bä nnaebnde ä ypriti yna nu ä yéqiti qaran dgane ym mnegta yna mng̅ yao bä näkrne |
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| It knows it will fly this way to stop this fire burning and it will fetch this water where it is in the coconut shell to stop the fire |
| gtets ä geym .. mne yna mng̅mne ym bdrs ä detnga yao bä näkrne |
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| it will continue until the whole of that storehouse is really wet, so that it won't catch fire again. |
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Jimmy Nébni: Zo Bird
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