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 148
... tussocks ( Text page 160 ) Potorous tridactylus Cool rainforest , wet open forest with dense understorey , dense coastal heathland ( Text page 160 ) Bettongia tropica Open forest and woodland with low shrubs or tussocks , on edge of ...
... tussocks ( Text page 160 ) Potorous tridactylus Cool rainforest , wet open forest with dense understorey , dense coastal heathland ( Text page 160 ) Bettongia tropica Open forest and woodland with low shrubs or tussocks , on edge of ...
Page 195
... tussocks . Some wallabies browse on shrubs and the lower branches of some trees . This can result in the stripping of the leaves and smaller twigs from the lower branches , leaving them dead ( Plate 61 , page 198 ) . Other traces In the ...
... tussocks . Some wallabies browse on shrubs and the lower branches of some trees . This can result in the stripping of the leaves and smaller twigs from the lower branches , leaving them dead ( Plate 61 , page 198 ) . Other traces In the ...
Page 223
... tus- socks and grass - trees . The Fat - tailed Dunnart builds similar nests in hollow logs and under tussocks and rocks , and they have also been found under sheets of iron on the ground near farms . In arid areas this dunnart also ...
... tus- socks and grass - trees . The Fat - tailed Dunnart builds similar nests in hollow logs and under tussocks and rocks , and they have also been found under sheets of iron on the ground near farms . In arid areas this dunnart also ...
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