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 79
... usually clawed ) , and the other three digits are very long . These bones support the thin skin of the wing . This elastic membrane is stretched across the fingertips and is attached along the sides of the body , down the hind leg to ...
... usually clawed ) , and the other three digits are very long . These bones support the thin skin of the wing . This elastic membrane is stretched across the fingertips and is attached along the sides of the body , down the hind leg to ...
Page 207
... usually placed in a fork or among the branches of the tree or shrub where these grow close together ( Plate 70 , page 201 ) . The nest is lined with moss , soft bark and leaves . This ringtail also builds its nest in tree hollows ...
... usually placed in a fork or among the branches of the tree or shrub where these grow close together ( Plate 70 , page 201 ) . The nest is lined with moss , soft bark and leaves . This ringtail also builds its nest in tree hollows ...
Page 211
... usually in dense foliage . A thick fork which will pro- vide protection from sun and rain may be used frequently by the same Koala . Although it may rest in the trees where it has been feeding , a Koala will also often use suitable ...
... usually in dense foliage . A thick fork which will pro- vide protection from sun and rain may be used frequently by the same Koala . Although it may rest in the trees where it has been feeding , a Koala will also often use suitable ...
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