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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Contents
Tracks | 1 |
Scats | 85 |
Shelters Feeding Signs and Other Traces | 188 |
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animals areas Australia bark Bilby birds blade-like Brown Bandicoot burrows Bush Rat canine carnivores cheek teeth claws Colour plate 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 Greater Glider ground Hare-wallaby hind feet Hind foot track holes hoofs incisors insects Key to Scats knob Koala Leadbeater's Possum leave lost after death lower jaws M4 Similar species mammals marsupials molars Nailtail Wallaby nests Northern Northern Brown Bandicoot odour Pademelon pads pellets Phascogale Planigale plant material Platypus Potoroo premolar Prominent shelf Pygmy-possum rabbit rainforest rats and mice Red Fox ridges rodents sand scats shape sharp cusps shelter skull sometimes Spot-tailed Quoll Sugar Glider Swamp Wallaby Tasmanian Devil Text page 169 toes tracks Figure Tree-kangaroo trees tussocks usually Wallaroo Water-rat Western Quoll Yellow-bellied Glider
Bibliographic information
| Title | Tracks, Scats, and Other Traces: A Field Guide to Australian Mammals |
| Author | Barbara Triggs |
| Edition | 2, illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2004 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Feb 2010 |
| ISBN | 0195550994, 9780195550993 |
| Length | 340 pages |
| Subjects | › › Nature / Animals / Mammals Nature / Reference |
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