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 156
... insect particles are usually visible on the surface . They become very friable and are often found broken into two or ... insects . The colour of the scats varies with the colour of the soil in the area where the echidna has been feeding ...
... insect particles are usually visible on the surface . They become very friable and are often found broken into two or ... insects . The colour of the scats varies with the colour of the soil in the area where the echidna has been feeding ...
Page 164
... insects , and some leaves and fruit . The scats , which prob- ably contain fine insect remains , disappear in the rainforest leaf litter . Scats of the gliders are found at the bases of trees and are sometimes caught in the rough bark ...
... insects , and some leaves and fruit . The scats , which prob- ably contain fine insect remains , disappear in the rainforest leaf litter . Scats of the gliders are found at the bases of trees and are sometimes caught in the rough bark ...
Page 166
... insects and other inver- tebrates , and fine particles of these can be seen in a broken scat . Soil is ingested as the invertebrates are dug up from the ground , and the soil particles colour the scats brown or black . Sand in the ...
... insects and other inver- tebrates , and fine particles of these can be seen in a broken scat . Soil is ingested as the invertebrates are dug up from the ground , and the soil particles colour the scats brown or black . Sand in the ...
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