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 210
... nests of shredded bark or grass about 6 cm in diameter , built in small tree - holes or under loose bark on tree trunks . Nests have also been found in abandoned birds ' nests and in hollow stumps ( Plate 80 , page 204 ) . Western Pygmy ...
... nests of shredded bark or grass about 6 cm in diameter , built in small tree - holes or under loose bark on tree trunks . Nests have also been found in abandoned birds ' nests and in hollow stumps ( Plate 80 , page 204 ) . Western Pygmy ...
Page 223
... nests lined with leaves or shredded bark in hollows in standing trees and stumps . The en- trance holes to these nests are usually less than 10 cm in diam- eter . They sometimes shelter in the ball - shaped nests of bab- blers . The Red ...
... nests lined with leaves or shredded bark in hollows in standing trees and stumps . The en- trance holes to these nests are usually less than 10 cm in diam- eter . They sometimes shelter in the ball - shaped nests of bab- blers . The Red ...
Page 226
... nest rats also build unusual nests . Although these rats are now extinct on the mainland the Greater Stick - nest Rat is only found on an island off South Australia , and the Lesser Stick - nest Rat is totally extinct old nests of both ...
... nest rats also build unusual nests . Although these rats are now extinct on the mainland the Greater Stick - nest Rat is only found on an island off South Australia , and the Lesser Stick - nest Rat is totally extinct old nests of both ...
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