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**HOW THEY LIVED:**

The Aborigines were hunters, so they moved from place to place to get food and water. They hunted fish, turtles, crocodiles and kangaroos. While the men caught the big animals the woman caught the small animals, like snakes. For hunting at birds, they used boomerang. One of them came back after throwing and the other one didn’t. It takes lot of training to learn to throw a boomerang, many years actually. They had to grease themselves with mud to hide their own body so the animals didn’t see them. It is a fact that the Aborigines made a living out of things they found in the nature. They had respect for the nature and felt very close to it. Also today Ab  origines help the police to find missing criminals, because they are very good trackers.

In old times the Aborigines didn’t have any permanent place so they lived in tribes, like a family. The climate was very different around Australia, so each tribe lived differently. They had their own language and culture. Each tribe contained around 500. There were around 30 – 40 in each “family”. They took care of each other and were just like a family, but not every family went along well.

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