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Non-birding request : Kangaroo and Wallaby track ID

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Subject: Non-birding request : Kangaroo and Wallaby track ID
From: Andrew Taylor <>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:19:34 +1100
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 01:01:27PM +1100,  wrote:
> At a local wetland i saw some kangaroo/swamp wallaby tracks through
> the mud.  I have taken a photo of the tracks and want to find someone
> that can identify the tracks based off the photo.  Is there anyone
> out there that can ID swamp wallaby tracks from Eastern Greys?

Barbara Triggs' "Tracks, Scats and Other Traces A Field Guide to
Australian Mammals" (http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/18/pid/4812.htm)
illustrates both tracks - but identification may be problematic.
You often see Barbara acknowledged on ecological studies for providing
id of hair/droppings/tracks/...

Anddrew

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