Tracks, Scats, and Other Traces: A Field Guide to Australian MammalsThis book contains hundreds of illustrations and is organized in an accessible format for easy identification of the visible traces left by Australian mammals in their passage. Triggs provides all the information needed to identify mammals anywhere in Australia, using only the tracks or other signs these animals leave behind. This is an indispensable guide for bushwalkers, naturalists, students, zoologists, and other professionals -- in fact, it will appeal to anyone who ever wanted a better understanding of Australia's unique mammal fauna. |
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Page 208
... bark . Yellow - bellied Gliders , Sugar Gliders and Squirrel Gliders line their dens with leaves . Both living and dead trees are used by these gliders . Sugar Gliders have a preference for trees with numerous fissures ( narrow cracks ...
... bark . Yellow - bellied Gliders , Sugar Gliders and Squirrel Gliders line their dens with leaves . Both living and dead trees are used by these gliders . Sugar Gliders have a preference for trees with numerous fissures ( narrow cracks ...
Page 210
... bark or grass about 6 cm in diameter , built in small tree - holes or under loose bark on tree trunks . Nests have also been found in abandoned birds ' nests and in hollow stumps ( Plate 80 , page 204 ) . Western Pygmy - possum nests ...
... bark or grass about 6 cm in diameter , built in small tree - holes or under loose bark on tree trunks . Nests have also been found in abandoned birds ' nests and in hollow stumps ( Plate 80 , page 204 ) . Western Pygmy - possum nests ...
Page 225
... bark , straw , rags or paper may be built under flooring , amongst crates and many similar places . The introduced House Mouse sometimes builds complex , shallow burrows with several entrances . A spherical nest of grass , bark , paper ...
... bark , straw , rags or paper may be built under flooring , amongst crates and many similar places . The introduced House Mouse sometimes builds complex , shallow burrows with several entrances . A spherical nest of grass , bark , paper ...
Contents
Tracks | 1 |
Scats | 85 |
Shelters Feeding Signs and Other Traces | 188 |
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animals areas Australia Bilby birds blade-like Bounding track pattern Brown Bandicoot burrows Bush Rat canine carnivores cheek teeth claws Common Brushtail Possum Common Ringtail Possum Common Wombat deer Dental formula Dingo Dunnart Eastern Grey Kangaroo Echidna entrance Feeding signs feral flange Flying-fox forest and woodland Front foot track gait grass grassland Greater Glider ground Hare-wallaby hind feet Hind foot track holes incisors insects Key to Scats knob Koala Leadbeater's Possum leave Long-nosed Bandicoot Long-nosed Potoroo lost after death lower jaws M4 Similar species mammals marsupials molars Nailtail Wallaby nests Northern Northern Brown Bandicoot odour Pademelon pellets Phascogale Planigale plant material Plate Platypus premolar Prominent shelf Pygmy-possum rainforest Red Fox Red-necked Wallaby ridges rodents Rufous Bettong scats shelter skull sometimes Spot-tailed Quoll Sugar Glider Swamp Wallaby Tasmanian Devil Text page 169 toes track pattern Figure tracks Figure Tree-kangaroo trees tussocks usually Walking track pattern Wallaroo