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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... HOOF PRINTS Prints of single hoofs Prints of cloven hoofs STEP 3 F G Measure the length of a single track group or pattern . If a track pattern is incomplete , try to assess how long a complete one would be . The track patterns of the ...
... HOOF PRINTS Prints of single hoofs Prints of cloven hoofs STEP 3 F G Measure the length of a single track group or pattern . If a track pattern is incomplete , try to assess how long a complete one would be . The track patterns of the ...
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... hoofs . All our hoofed mammals have been introduced , mainly for domestic purposes , but many have become adapted to living in the wild . There are six species of deer and eight species of other domes- ticated or feral hoofed mammals in ...
... hoofs . All our hoofed mammals have been introduced , mainly for domestic purposes , but many have become adapted to living in the wild . There are six species of deer and eight species of other domes- ticated or feral hoofed mammals in ...
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... hoofs of the Horse leave large , almost circular prints with the V mark of the frog of the foot in the centre ( Figures 175 , 176 ) . A shod horse leaves a track outlined by the metal rim of the shoe . On firm ground , a hoof print may ...
... hoofs of the Horse leave large , almost circular prints with the V mark of the frog of the foot in the centre ( Figures 175 , 176 ) . A shod horse leaves a track outlined by the metal rim of the shoe . On firm ground , a hoof print may ...
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