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 190
... entrance more than 20 cm in diameter : 2 wombats ( 211 ) , Tasmanian Devil ( 222 ) , Dingo and Dog ( 237 ) , Red Fox ( 237 ) With entrance between 10 and 20 cm in diameter : Platypus ( 194 ) , Burrowing Bettong ( 205 ) , Bilby ( 221 ) ...
... entrance more than 20 cm in diameter : 2 wombats ( 211 ) , Tasmanian Devil ( 222 ) , Dingo and Dog ( 237 ) , Red Fox ( 237 ) With entrance between 10 and 20 cm in diameter : Platypus ( 194 ) , Burrowing Bettong ( 205 ) , Bilby ( 221 ) ...
Page 194
... entrance on a sloping bank , above the water - line at heights varying from a few centimetres to several metres . The entrance has a low , arched shape ; it is about 10-12 cm wide and 8 cm high , providing a tight fit for the platypus ...
... entrance on a sloping bank , above the water - line at heights varying from a few centimetres to several metres . The entrance has a low , arched shape ; it is about 10-12 cm wide and 8 cm high , providing a tight fit for the platypus ...
Page 211
... entrance , making these shelters easy to find . Common Wombat burrows vary in size and location . Typi- cally , the oval or U - shaped entrance is about 40-50 cm across and 50 cm high , but old , well - established burrows may have ...
... entrance , making these shelters easy to find . Common Wombat burrows vary in size and location . Typi- cally , the oval or U - shaped entrance is about 40-50 cm across and 50 cm high , but old , well - established burrows may have ...
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