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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... dunnart Figure 121 Hind foot track of dunnart Figure 122 Bounding track pattern of dunnart Figure 123 Bounding tracks of Fat - tailed Dunnart The tiny planigales ' tracks also follow the same patterns , but the tail leaves a drag mark ...
... dunnart Figure 121 Hind foot track of dunnart Figure 122 Bounding track pattern of dunnart Figure 123 Bounding tracks of Fat - tailed Dunnart The tiny planigales ' tracks also follow the same patterns , but the tail leaves a drag mark ...
Page 116
... Dunnart Sminthopsis murina Dry open forest , woodland and mallee heath ( Text page 168 ) 54 Fat - tailed Dunnart Sminthopsis crassicaudata Woodland , shrubland , tussock grassland , gibber plain and agricultural land ( Text page 168 ) ...
... Dunnart Sminthopsis murina Dry open forest , woodland and mallee heath ( Text page 168 ) 54 Fat - tailed Dunnart Sminthopsis crassicaudata Woodland , shrubland , tussock grassland , gibber plain and agricultural land ( Text page 168 ) ...
Page 223
... DUNNARTS , PLANIGALES AND OTHER SMALL DASYURIDS Shelters The Common Dunnart builds a cup - shaped nest of dry grass and leaves . These have been found in hollow logs , grass tus- socks and grass - trees . The Fat - tailed Dunnart builds ...
... DUNNARTS , PLANIGALES AND OTHER SMALL DASYURIDS Shelters The Common Dunnart builds a cup - shaped nest of dry grass and leaves . These have been found in hollow logs , grass tus- socks and grass - trees . The Fat - tailed Dunnart builds ...
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