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 157
... odour , similar to plant humus . Dry scats have little or no odour . Pellets are often deposited in a clump and are sometimes joined in a string . In spring and summer , when the fresh growth of grass is eaten , the pellets may be ...
... odour , similar to plant humus . Dry scats have little or no odour . Pellets are often deposited in a clump and are sometimes joined in a string . In spring and summer , when the fresh growth of grass is eaten , the pellets may be ...
Page 163
... odour . Scats of the Common Ringtail Possum are found near the bases of the trees where these animals have their nests and where they have been feeding ( see Plates 70 , 71 , page 201 ) . As they often live near human habitation , their ...
... odour . Scats of the Common Ringtail Possum are found near the bases of the trees where these animals have their nests and where they have been feeding ( see Plates 70 , 71 , page 201 ) . As they often live near human habitation , their ...
Page 166
... odour . Bandicoots and the Bilby often de- posit their scats near the conical holes they dig while searching for ... odour of marsupial carnivore scats is generally different from the odour of the introduced carnivores ( Dog , Red Fox ...
... odour . Bandicoots and the Bilby often de- posit their scats near the conical holes they dig while searching for ... odour of marsupial carnivore scats is generally different from the odour of the introduced carnivores ( Dog , Red Fox ...
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