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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... echidna ( T.Wright ) Figure 10 Hind foot of echidna ( T.Wright ) Gait The echidna's usual gait is a slow , rolling walk , with the two legs on one side of the body moving together , followed by the two legs on the other side . Figure 12 ...
... echidna ( T.Wright ) Figure 10 Hind foot of echidna ( T.Wright ) Gait The echidna's usual gait is a slow , rolling walk , with the two legs on one side of the body moving together , followed by the two legs on the other side . Figure 12 ...
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... echidna has been feeding . They have a strong , earthy smell when fresh , but dry scats have little or no smell . Echidna scats can be found anywhere . They are often found on rock piles , and also where the echidna has been feeding ...
... echidna has been feeding . They have a strong , earthy smell when fresh , but dry scats have little or no smell . Echidna scats can be found anywhere . They are often found on rock piles , and also where the echidna has been feeding ...
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... ECHIDNA Shelter Echidnas shelter in hollow logs , rabbit or wombat burrows , rock caves , thick vegetation or piles of forest litter . When caught in an exposed position on soft soil or sand they will sometimes rapidly dig straight down ...
... ECHIDNA Shelter Echidnas shelter in hollow logs , rabbit or wombat burrows , rock caves , thick vegetation or piles of forest litter . When caught in an exposed position on soft soil or sand they will sometimes rapidly dig straight down ...
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