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 252
... incisors . Lower incisors bite against a hard pad in upper jaw . Sockets where lower incisors were present . These are of- ten lost after death . Large premolars and molars have crescent - shaped ridges along their grinding surfaces ...
... incisors . Lower incisors bite against a hard pad in upper jaw . Sockets where lower incisors were present . These are of- ten lost after death . Large premolars and molars have crescent - shaped ridges along their grinding surfaces ...
Page 262
... incisor is about the same length as the combined length of the other two incisors . C Swamp Wallaby 3 The notch in the third incisor is less defined and is about two - thirds of the way along the tooth . This third incisor is generally ...
... incisor is about the same length as the combined length of the other two incisors . C Swamp Wallaby 3 The notch in the third incisor is less defined and is about two - thirds of the way along the tooth . This third incisor is generally ...
Page 286
... Incisors often lost after death , as in this specimen . The ca- nine , also lost , is a similar shape to the incisors and lies beside the third incisor . 7 Long gap . 8 Cheek teeth have crescent - shaped ridges . 9 Long projection ...
... Incisors often lost after death , as in this specimen . The ca- nine , also lost , is a similar shape to the incisors and lies beside the third incisor . 7 Long gap . 8 Cheek teeth have crescent - shaped ridges . 9 Long projection ...
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