Tracks, Scats and Other Traces

Author(s): Barbara Triggs

Field Guides

This 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.


Product Information

Barbara Triggs has lived in the bush, among the mammals she writes about, since 1972. An authority on the identification of mammalian traces, she is the author of several natural history books. Mammal Tracks and Signs won the Whitley Award for the Best Field Guide in 1984.

General Fields

  • : 9780195550993
  • : Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand
  • : Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand
  • : September 2004
  • : 206mm X 128mm X 18mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Barbara Triggs
  • : Paperback
  • : 02
  • : English
  • : 224
  • : WNCF
  • : illustrations