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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... trees they climb . Figure 48 Hopping track pattern of tree - kangaroo Figure 49 Figure 50 Walking track pattern Figure 51 Tracks of These. Tracks of Lumholtz's Tree - kangaroo in sand Figure 54 Tracks of Rufous Bettong in sand Figure 58.
... trees they climb . Figure 48 Hopping track pattern of tree - kangaroo Figure 49 Figure 50 Walking track pattern Figure 51 Tracks of These. Tracks of Lumholtz's Tree - kangaroo in sand Figure 54 Tracks of Rufous Bettong in sand Figure 58.
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... Tree - kangaroo ( S12 ) and Bennett's Tree - kangaroo , Spectacled Hare - wallaby ( S12 ) , Quokka B Spot - tailed Quoll 6 Four pairs of small upper incisors . These may be lost after death . Hollow where point of lower canine fits when ...
... Tree - kangaroo ( S12 ) and Bennett's Tree - kangaroo , Spectacled Hare - wallaby ( S12 ) , Quokka B Spot - tailed Quoll 6 Four pairs of small upper incisors . These may be lost after death . Hollow where point of lower canine fits when ...
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... Tree - kangaroo , Bennett's lumholtzi , see Tree - kangaroo , Lumholtz's Devil , Tasmanian : distribution 96 ; feeding signs 222 ; feet 49 ; gaits 52 ; lower jaw 290 , 291 ; scats 98 , 166 , 167 ; shelters 222 ; skull 268 , 269 ; tracks ...
... Tree - kangaroo , Bennett's lumholtzi , see Tree - kangaroo , Lumholtz's Devil , Tasmanian : distribution 96 ; feeding signs 222 ; feet 49 ; gaits 52 ; lower jaw 290 , 291 ; scats 98 , 166 , 167 ; shelters 222 ; skull 268 , 269 ; tracks ...
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