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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... Animals that run fast and cover large distances generally have longer limbs , and only their toes ( digits ) touch the ground . These are digitigrade animals . The feet of animals that move mainly by running have evolved so that the ...
... Animals that run fast and cover large distances generally have longer limbs , and only their toes ( digits ) touch the ground . These are digitigrade animals . The feet of animals that move mainly by running have evolved so that the ...
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... animals the soles of the feet have pads , arranged in various ways . It is useful to know the number of pads and how they are arranged , and the number of toes and how many have claws . Animals without paws have a horny casing ( the ...
... animals the soles of the feet have pads , arranged in various ways . It is useful to know the number of pads and how they are arranged , and the number of toes and how many have claws . Animals without paws have a horny casing ( the ...
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... animals die or are killed in the wild , their bodies are quickly disposed of by predators and scavengers . Foxes , din- goes and feral dogs , feral cats , ravens , eagles and other birds of prey , reptiles such as goannas , as well as a ...
... animals die or are killed in the wild , their bodies are quickly disposed of by predators and scavengers . Foxes , din- goes and feral dogs , feral cats , ravens , eagles and other birds of prey , reptiles such as goannas , as well as a ...
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 Antechinus 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 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 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 Figure Tree-kangaroo trees tussocks usually Walking track pattern Wallaroo Water-rat