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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... shape and size , and these differences are most helpful when identifying tracks . The Key to Tracks in this section is based on the shapes and sizes of the tracks , which are all de- scribed in the Guide to Tracks . It can help to learn ...
... shape and size , and these differences are most helpful when identifying tracks . The Key to Tracks in this section is based on the shapes and sizes of the tracks , which are all de- scribed in the Guide to Tracks . It can help to learn ...
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... shapes and sizes , one with a ' thumb ' Prints of two different shapes and sizes , without a ' thumb ' Prints of similar shape and size AB C D E ( one may be slightly larger ) HOOF PRINTS Prints of single hoofs Prints of cloven hoofs ...
... shapes and sizes , one with a ' thumb ' Prints of two different shapes and sizes , without a ' thumb ' Prints of similar shape and size AB C D E ( one may be slightly larger ) HOOF PRINTS Prints of single hoofs Prints of cloven hoofs ...
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... shape , as the drawings and photographs show . The five toes of the front foot are all short , the inner toe being the smallest ; the pad at the base of the toe is large and has a very different shape to that of a Dog or Red Fox ...
... shape , as the drawings and photographs show . The five toes of the front foot are all short , the inner toe being the smallest ; the pad at the base of the toe is large and has a very different shape to that of a Dog or 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