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 87
... plant - eating animals ( herbivores ) and meat - eating animals ( carnivores ) ... material can be seen , and whether this is composed of fine particles or ... material visible , with a twist of hair at one end of the scat . Some scats are ...
... plant - eating animals ( herbivores ) and meat - eating animals ( carnivores ) ... material can be seen , and whether this is composed of fine particles or ... material visible , with a twist of hair at one end of the scat . Some scats are ...
Page 157
... plant material can be seen . The texture of this is often a useful clue in identification , as some macropods eat softer grasses than others , and some browse on bushes and trees . For example , Eastern Grey Kangaroo scats are green or ...
... plant material can be seen . The texture of this is often a useful clue in identification , as some macropods eat softer grasses than others , and some browse on bushes and trees . For example , Eastern Grey Kangaroo scats are green or ...
Page 161
... plant material . Common Brushtail Possums also eat much plant material but occasionally eat insects , especially large moths when these are available , and fragments of insects are some- time found in their scats . They have been seen ...
... plant material . Common Brushtail Possums also eat much plant material but occasionally eat insects , especially large moths when these are available , and fragments of insects are some- time found in their scats . They have been seen ...
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