First Field Guide to Australian MammalsBeginners' pocket guide for children to identifying around 50 types of Australian mammals. Each entry includes information on identification, size, distribution, habitat, habits and similar species. Includes colour photos throughout, glossary and index. Photographer has produced several books and assorted stationery items with an Australian theme. |
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Southern Brown Bandicoot | 22 |
Eastern Pygmypossum | 28 |
Musky Ratkangaroo | 34 |
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Active at night Antechinus Australia bandicoots Black-striped Wallaby breeding brown burrow carried in pouch Cat-sized cm Weight Common dark stripe develops when pouch ears Eastern Grey Kangaroo Eastern Wallaroo eats grasses Eats leaves eucalypt fed in nest Female carries Flying-fox FOOD GRASSES FOOD INSECTS FOOD LEAVES Glider great-foot Grey-brown groups HABITAT HABITAT FOREST Habits HEATHS hindfeet hindlegs hopping hunted inland plains INSECTS & SMALL JIRI LOCHMAN Joey carried Joey stays kg Identification Length limited habitat Long-footed Potoroo mainland Marsupial Mole megabat MONOTREMES months muzzle nectar NORTH QLD northeastern Qld Notes numbers pale paler paws Possum Potoroo pouch vacant Probably secure Pygmy-possum Quokka rainforest Rare reddish Reserve embryo develops Short-beaked Echidna Similar species small animals Solitary southeastern Aust southwestern Spends day STANLEY BREEDEN Status stripe on upper Sugar Glider tail Tasmania Tree-kangaroo trees Vulnerable Wallaby Macropus Wallaroo weaned white stripe Willem de Vlamingh Wombat Yellow-footed Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby