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 10
... claws are highly special- ised for digging . The front foot has five strong , broad claws used for digging ( Figure 10 ) . The claw on the first toe of the hind foot is short , while the claws on the second and third toes are usually ...
... claws are highly special- ised for digging . The front foot has five strong , broad claws used for digging ( Figure 10 ) . The claw on the first toe of the hind foot is short , while the claws on the second and third toes are usually ...
Page 12
... claws , and there is a leathery web between them ( Figure 16 ) . This web is folded back when the Platypus walks on land ( Figure 17 ) . A small part of the web protrudes under the first claw of the hind foot , but the webbing only ...
... claws , and there is a leathery web between them ( Figure 16 ) . This web is folded back when the Platypus walks on land ( Figure 17 ) . A small part of the web protrudes under the first claw of the hind foot , but the webbing only ...
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... claws . The Dog's claws are larger than those of the Red Fox . The Cat retracts its claws when walking . ( i ) ( ii ) ( iii ) Figure 154 Front feet of : ( i ) Dog ( ii ) Red Fox ( iii ) Cat ( T. Wright ) Front foot track × 1/2 All these ...
... claws . The Dog's claws are larger than those of the Red Fox . The Cat retracts its claws when walking . ( i ) ( ii ) ( iii ) Figure 154 Front feet of : ( i ) Dog ( ii ) Red Fox ( iii ) Cat ( T. Wright ) Front foot track × 1/2 All these ...
Contents
Tracks | 1 |
Scats | 85 |
Shelters Feeding Signs and Other Traces | 188 |
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animals areas Australia bats 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 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 macropods mammals marsupials molars Nailtail Wallaby nests Northern Brown Bandicoot odour pellets Phascogale Planigale plant material Plate Platypus premolar Prominent shelf Pygmy-possum rainforest rats and mice Red Fox Red-necked Wallaby ridges Rock-wallaby rodents Rufous Bettong scats shape shelter skull sometimes Spot-tailed Quoll Sugar Glider Swamp Wallaby Tasmanian Devil Text page 169 toes tracks Figure Tree-kangaroo trees tussocks usually Walking track pattern Wallaroo