The only truly comprehensive guide to all 376 Australian mammals, including kangaroos, koala, bandicoots, dunnarts, Bilbies, cuscuses, possums, wombats, bats, rodents, deer, seals, whales, and dolphins. The guide uses the classic field guide layout, including 4-color illustrations drawn by Australia's premier artist, Frank Knight, diagrams to help distinguish similar species, measurements, distribution maps, and accurate details of appearance, diagnostic features, habitat, and key behavioral characteristics. Simplicity and organization makes this a perfect guide for tourists, bush walkers, and students.
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"This substantial guide is laid out in a side-by-side format, with the illustrations of each animal facing their description. Each entry includes the description, distribution, habitat, status, behavior, and similar species. An introduction provides instructions for using the guide, including field techniques, identification keys, and habitat types (with photos). The guide is beautifully produced: the quality of the illustrations alone makes this a noteworthy reference."--SciTech Book News
About the Author
Peter Menkhorst has been fascinated by Australia's flora and fauna for most of his life. He has participated in fauna surveys in many parts of Australia and has worked in wildlife research and management in Victoria for thirty-five years. He has published widely in the scientific and popular literature, including editing an Australian bird guide.
Frank Knight worked as an illustrator for CSIRO for twenty-five years. He has been a member of and has exhibited with the Society of Animal Art in New York. He has also illustrated a number of natural history books, including an Australian bird guide.
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Mammals from the Down Under,
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I've been doing alot of research on illustrating various Australian Mammals and found that this book is the most compacted of all reference materials. You get the whole animal to view. So many times when cross researching you find yourself struggling to figure out what the animals feet really looks like, this book I find is really helpful.
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THE field guide,
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Peter Menkhorst's book is widely regarded as THE field guide to the mammals of Australia. Compact and easy to use, with fantastic illustrations by Frank Knight, its a must for anyone interested in identifying Australia's diverse mammalian fauna.
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best field guide for mammals of australia,
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In fact, it is the only real field guide to the mammals of Australia. The Australian museum book is great of course, but is a reference book for home, whereas this is the perfect field guide. The drawings are pretty well spot and capture the look of the animal in the field quite well. Also, very recent. Great book, and good value.
Damon Ramsey, Author, "Ecosystem Guides Rainforest of tropical Australia"
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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A total of 379 species of mammal have been recorded from Australia and its continental waters since European settlement, and are included in this field guide. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
brown midline, false antechinus, bicoloured tail, melon rises, underparts pale grey, dark midline, canine width, interdigital pads, hip stripe, underparts cream, penile appendage, white cheek stripe, throat pleats, uniformly dark grey, mallee shrubland, rostrum tip, manoeuvrable flight, hummock grassland, dry sclerophyll forest, dark guard hairs, chest gland, cream underparts, rufous wash, black guard hairs, hopping mouse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Behaviour Nocturnal, Cape York, Behaviour Roosts, Behaviour Mostly, Behaviour Little, Top End, Sperm Whale, Behaviour Gregarious, Behaviour Solitary, Shark Bay, House Mouse, Bush Rat, Bass Strait, Torres Strait, Bottlenose Dolphin, Common Sheathtail Bat, Groote Eylandt, Gulf of Carpentaria, Sandy Inland Mouse, Inland Broad-nosed Bat, Melon-headed Whale, Swamp Rat, Andrew's Beaked Whale, Atherton Tableland, Beccari's Freetail Bat New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
A total of 379 species of mammal have been recorded from Australia and its continental waters since European settlement, and are included in this field guide. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
brown midline, false antechinus, bicoloured tail, melon rises, underparts pale grey, dark midline, canine width, interdigital pads, hip stripe, underparts cream, penile appendage, white cheek stripe, throat pleats, uniformly dark grey, mallee shrubland, rostrum tip, manoeuvrable flight, hummock grassland, dry sclerophyll forest, dark guard hairs, chest gland, cream underparts, rufous wash, black guard hairs, hopping mouse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Behaviour Nocturnal, Cape York, Behaviour Roosts, Behaviour Mostly, Behaviour Little, Top End, Sperm Whale, Behaviour Gregarious, Behaviour Solitary, Shark Bay, House Mouse, Bush Rat, Bass Strait, Torres Strait, Bottlenose Dolphin, Common Sheathtail Bat, Groote Eylandt, Gulf of Carpentaria, Sandy Inland Mouse, Inland Broad-nosed Bat, Melon-headed Whale, Swamp Rat, Andrew's Beaked Whale, Atherton Tableland, Beccari's Freetail Bat New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Australian Bats by Sue Churchill in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Biological Science by Watts in Front Matter
- Search for the Tasmanian tiger by Quentin Beresford in Back Matter
- Thylacine: Tragedy of the Tasmanian Tiger by Eric Guiler in Back Matter
- Echidnas of Australia and New Guinea (Australian Natural History) by Michael Augee in Back Matter
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- Vital Signs 2005 by The Worldwatch Institute in Back Matter
- No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species by Richard Ellis in Back Matter
- Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents by Marty Essen in Back Matter
- Mammals of the World: A Checklist by Andrew Duff in Back Matter
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