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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... bounding gait leaves a four - print track pattern at each bound . Bandicoots , the Bilby and the introduced European Rab- bit and Brown Hare all use a bounding gait , both fast and slow . The faster gait of possums , wombats , the Koala ...
... bounding gait leaves a four - print track pattern at each bound . Bandicoots , the Bilby and the introduced European Rab- bit and Brown Hare all use a bounding gait , both fast and slow . The faster gait of possums , wombats , the Koala ...
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... 2 ジ Figure 139 Walking track pattern Figure 140 Walking tracks of Water - rat in soft sand Figure 141 Bounding track pattern Figure 142 Bounding track of Water - rat in firm sand ፡፡ Figure 143 Bounding track pattern Figure 145 Slow ...
... 2 ジ Figure 139 Walking track pattern Figure 140 Walking tracks of Water - rat in soft sand Figure 141 Bounding track pattern Figure 142 Bounding track of Water - rat in firm sand ፡፡ Figure 143 Bounding track pattern Figure 145 Slow ...
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A Field Guide to Australian Mammals Barbara Triggs. ፡፡ Figure 143 Bounding track pattern Figure 145 Slow bounding track pattern Hopping - mice The small , paired tracks made by the hind feet of the hopping- mice can often be found in ...
A Field Guide to Australian Mammals Barbara Triggs. ፡፡ Figure 143 Bounding track pattern Figure 145 Slow bounding track pattern Hopping - mice The small , paired tracks made by the hind feet of the hopping- mice can often be found in ...
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