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 39
... Sugar glider , Squirrel Glider , Mahogany Glider and Yellow - bellied Glider spread only the first toe at an angle ( Fig- ure 71 ) . The Greater Glider spreads the two inner toes at an angle to the other three , leaving a similar track ...
... Sugar glider , Squirrel Glider , Mahogany Glider and Yellow - bellied Glider spread only the first toe at an angle ( Fig- ure 71 ) . The Greater Glider spreads the two inner toes at an angle to the other three , leaving a similar track ...
Page 163
... Greater Glider are similar in some ways , but ringtail scats are more regularly cylindrical . Common Ringtail Possum scats are often red - brown , but the colour varies with the diet : they may also be dark green , brown or grey . The ...
... Greater Glider are similar in some ways , but ringtail scats are more regularly cylindrical . Common Ringtail Possum scats are often red - brown , but the colour varies with the diet : they may also be dark green , brown or grey . The ...
Page 208
... Greater Glider usually chooses a large , old tree , nesting in a hole high up in the trunk , which it sometimes lines with leaves and strips of bark . Yellow - bellied Gliders , Sugar Gliders and Squirrel Gliders line their dens with ...
... Greater Glider usually chooses a large , old tree , nesting in a hole high up in the trunk , which it sometimes lines with leaves and strips of bark . Yellow - bellied Gliders , Sugar Gliders and Squirrel Gliders line their dens with ...
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