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 223
... shelter in the ball - shaped nests of bab- blers . The Red - tailed Phascogale nests in hollow logs and hollow limbs of mature trees , particularly the Wandoo ( Eucalyptus wandoo ) and Rock Oak . Most antechinuses construct a roughly ...
... shelter in the ball - shaped nests of bab- blers . The Red - tailed Phascogale nests in hollow logs and hollow limbs of mature trees , particularly the Wandoo ( Eucalyptus wandoo ) and Rock Oak . Most antechinuses construct a roughly ...
Page 224
... shelter for the Numbat . A burrow 1-2 metres long is used in spring , when the mother leaves her unweaned young in a nest chamber at the end of the burrow while she forages . Feeding ... Shelters Many rodents shelter in burrows , 224 NUMBAT.
... shelter for the Numbat . A burrow 1-2 metres long is used in spring , when the mother leaves her unweaned young in a nest chamber at the end of the burrow while she forages . Feeding ... Shelters Many rodents shelter in burrows , 224 NUMBAT.
Page 241
... Shelters Bats do not construct any form of shelter , but make use of natu- ral , or sometimes artificial , cover . The megabats generally roost in dense vegetation . Flying- foxes roost in the branches of large trees in forests or man ...
... Shelters Bats do not construct any form of shelter , but make use of natu- ral , or sometimes artificial , cover . The megabats generally roost in dense vegetation . Flying- foxes roost in the branches of large trees in forests or man ...
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