Tracks, Scats and Other Traces: A Field Guide to Australian MammalsThis book is an enlarged and updated successor to Mammal Tracks and Signs: A Field guide for South-Eastern Australia, which won the Whitley Award for the Best Field Guide in 1984. Tracks, Scats and Other Traces covers all Australian States and Territories, contains hundreds of newillustrations and extensive new text, and is organised in a different format for easier identification of the visible traces left by Australian mammals in their passage. It is divided into four sections, each of which has a Key for easy identification: * Tracks. Line drawings of 'perfect' tracks are matched with photographs of the same tracks in sand or mud. * Scats of 128 species of mammals are illustrated in full colour. A selection of scats and a distribution map and habitat information are given for each species. In addition, pellets and scats of birds, reptiles and invertebrates are illustrated. * Shelters, Feeding Signs and Other Traces provides detailed descriptions and over 70 colour photographs of the distinctive traces of mammals. * Bones. 40 full page plates of skulls, lower jaws, humeri and femurs cover 38 of the more commonly found species, plus a detailed guide which covers all mammal groups. Naturalists, both amateur and professional, are becoming increasingly aware of the value of the indirect methods of finding and identifying mammals. This handbook of detection will be an essential companion, to be kept in the pocket, backpack or car for constant ready reference. |
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Page 223
PHASCOGALES AND ANTECHINUSES Shelters The Brush-tailed Phascogale
makes nests lined with leaves or shredded bark in hollows in standing trees and
stumps. The entrance holes to these nests are usually less than 10 cm in
diameter. They sometimes shelter in the ball-shaped nests of babblers. 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 ...
PHASCOGALES AND ANTECHINUSES Shelters The Brush-tailed Phascogale
makes nests lined with leaves or shredded bark in hollows in standing trees and
stumps. The entrance holes to these nests are usually less than 10 cm in
diameter. They sometimes shelter in the ball-shaped nests of babblers. 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 ...
Page 225
The introduced Black Rat builds its nest of any fibrous material it can find, such as
grass, bark, shredded paper, rags, string and other material (Plate 10I, page 220)
. It nests in tree hollows, roof spaces, wall cavities, old machinery, haystacks,
poultry pens and similar places. It also digs shallow burrows. The introduced
Brown Rat digs deep burrows with entrance holes 6-10 cm in diameter; large
spoil heaps from these can be found on the banks of creeks and drains, around
barns and ...
The introduced Black Rat builds its nest of any fibrous material it can find, such as
grass, bark, shredded paper, rags, string and other material (Plate 10I, page 220)
. It nests in tree hollows, roof spaces, wall cavities, old machinery, haystacks,
poultry pens and similar places. It also digs shallow burrows. The introduced
Brown Rat digs deep burrows with entrance holes 6-10 cm in diameter; large
spoil heaps from these can be found on the banks of creeks and drains, around
barns and ...
Page 239
Feral Pigs have semi-permanent camps in dense undergrowth, usually near a
swamp or stream. In hot weather, Pigs may also rest in dust wallows. Feeding
signs Pigs leave areas of disturbed ground where they have been rooting for
insect larvae, roots and fungi. Often these areas are large, and in some soils the
marks made by the snout can be seen at the back of the holes (Plate 1 12, page
232). Goats often browse on young trees and shrubs, stripping them of their bark
and lower ...
Feral Pigs have semi-permanent camps in dense undergrowth, usually near a
swamp or stream. In hot weather, Pigs may also rest in dust wallows. Feeding
signs Pigs leave areas of disturbed ground where they have been rooting for
insect larvae, roots and fungi. Often these areas are large, and in some soils the
marks made by the snout can be seen at the back of the holes (Plate 1 12, page
232). Goats often browse on young trees and shrubs, stripping them of their bark
and lower ...
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Contents
Tracks | 1 |
Scats | 85 |
Shelters Feeding Signs and Other Traces | 188 |
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animals Antechinus areas Australia bark bats Bilby birds blade-like Bounding track pattern Brown Bandicoot Brushtail Possum burrows Bush Rat canine carnivores cheek teeth claws Colour plate 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 hind feet Hind foot track holes hoofs incisors insects Key to Scats knob Koala Leadbeater's Possum leave Long-nosed Potoroo lost after death lower jaws M4 Similar species macropods mammals marsupials molars Musky Rat-kangaroo Nailtail Wallaby nests Northern Brown Bandicoot odour Pademelon pads pellets Phascogale Planigale plant material Platypus premolar Prominent shelf Pygmy-possum rabbit rainforest rats and mice Red Fox ridges Rock-wallaby rodents scats shape sharp cusps shelter skull sometimes Spot-tailed Quoll Swamp Wallaby Tasmanian Devil Text page 169 toes track Figure Tree-kangaroo trees tussocks usually Wallaroo Water-rat Western Quoll