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 10
... claws are highly special- ised for digging . The front foot has five strong , broad claws used for digging ( Figure 10 ) . The claw on the first toe of the hind foot is short , while the claws on the second and third toes are usually ...
... claws are highly special- ised for digging . The front foot has five strong , broad claws used for digging ( Figure 10 ) . The claw on the first toe of the hind foot is short , while the claws on the second and third toes are usually ...
Page 11
... claws are usually clear ( Figure 12 ) . The hind toes are directed backwards , and the tracks show a print of all the claws as the foot is moved forwards ( Figure 13 ) . The long claws of the second and third toes leave a characteristic ...
... claws are usually clear ( Figure 12 ) . The hind toes are directed backwards , and the tracks show a print of all the claws as the foot is moved forwards ( Figure 13 ) . The long claws of the second and third toes leave a characteristic ...
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... claws , and there is a leathery web between them ( Figure 16 ) . This web is folded back when the Platypus walks on land ( Figure 17 ) . A small part of the web protrudes under the first claw of the hind foot , but the webbing only ...
... claws , and there is a leathery web between them ( Figure 16 ) . This web is folded back when the Platypus walks on land ( Figure 17 ) . A small part of the web protrudes under the first claw of the hind foot , but the webbing only ...
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