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 264
... canine . Canine is strong and large . These holes in the front of the palate are level with or just behind the canines . In the fox they are further forward in the palate ( see photograph opposite ) . Largest cheek tooth is the fourth ...
... canine . Canine is strong and large . These holes in the front of the palate are level with or just behind the canines . In the fox they are further forward in the palate ( see photograph opposite ) . Largest cheek tooth is the fourth ...
Page 268
... canine fits when mouth is closed . 7 Four pairs of upper incisors . 8 9 Very large , strong canine . 10 Two crowded premolars . 11 Molars have sharp cusps . 12 Fourth molar is a small ridge at right angles to other molars . 13 Prominent ...
... canine fits when mouth is closed . 7 Four pairs of upper incisors . 8 9 Very large , strong canine . 10 Two crowded premolars . 11 Molars have sharp cusps . 12 Fourth molar is a small ridge at right angles to other molars . 13 Prominent ...
Page 290
... canine . in the male seal 7 All cheek teeth have pointed cusps . and the canines 8 are larger . No shelf , as the seal is a placental mammal . Dental formula : I2 , C1 , P & M5 C Tasmanian Devil 9 Three crowded incisors . 10 Large strong ...
... canine . in the male seal 7 All cheek teeth have pointed cusps . and the canines 8 are larger . No shelf , as the seal is a placental mammal . Dental formula : I2 , C1 , P & M5 C Tasmanian Devil 9 Three crowded incisors . 10 Large strong ...
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