A comprehensive guide to identifying all 379 species of mammals known in Australia. Provides concise and accurate details of the appearance, diagnostic features, distribution of habitat and key behavioural characteristics of all mammals known to have occurred in Australia or its waters since European settlement.

Identification guide based on skeletal remains, scats, tracks, diggings and food remains; Chap.6; Aboriginal tracking, describes Aboriginal representations of tracks in art works and gives examples of reproductions in sand made by Pitjantjatjara at Indulkana.

The third in a series of highly illustrated natural history books that provides a wonderful introduction to identifying Australian mammals.

This fully revised and updated edition of A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia is the only comprehensive guide to identifying all 382 species of mammals known in Australia.

This comprehensive field guide to Australian mammals features beautiful colour illustrations and distribution maps for each species. Gives clear descriptions of hundreds of native mammals and discusses their behaviour, habitat, status, eating habits, and reproduction.

This invaluable companion to The Mammals of Australia (third edition) is intended to be taken into the field. Genuinely practical outdoors, this guide includes current taxonomy, colour photos, dimensions, weights, up-to-date distribution maps and habitat preferences of all 388 mammal species that occur or occurred in Australia and its territorial waters. In addition, the second half of the book contains newly developed comprehensive, species-level identification keys, generously illustrated with detailed figures and maps, for each Australian State. These individual keys simplify the identification process and allow the lay reader to distinguish all mammal species, no matter how subtle the differences.