Each account covers how the species is identified in the field, what signs it leaves, where it lives, what it eats and its conservation status. They are written and reviewed by the project team, and many include an illustrated plate of tracks and droppings.
1364 accounts published · 24 orders
The most numerous order of mammals. Squirrels, mice, voles, dormice, beavers and porcupines.
Bats Chiroptera 375 accountsThe only mammal with true flight. They leave no tracks: they are identified by the sonogram of their echolocation.
Carnivores Carnivora 143 accountsFoxes, badgers, otters, genets, bears, cats and seals. The order that leaves the most identifiable signs: almost all leave tracks, droppings or territorial marks.
Even-toed ungulates Artiodactyla 133 accountsDeer, roe deer, wild boar, goats and bovids. Their tracks are the easiest to find and to measure.
Hedgehogs and shrews Eulipotyphla 92 accountsSmall-bodied insectivores with a fast metabolism. Hedgehogs, moles, shrews and desmans.
Primates Primates 32 accountsLemurs, monkeys and apes.
Rabbits and hares Lagomorpha 29 accountsRabbits, hares and pikas. Told apart from rodents by a second pair of incisors.
Kangaroos and koalas Diprotodontia 19 accountsThe most diverse group of Australian marsupials.
Tenrecs and golden moles Afrosoricida 17 accountsAfrican and Malagasy insectivores.
Opossums Didelphimorphia 13 accountsThe American marsupials.
Carnivorous marsupials Dasyuromorphia 8 accountsTasmanian devils, quolls and marsupial mice.
Elephant shrews Macroscelidea 8 accountsEndemic to Africa, with a mobile snout and a very fast run.
Odd-toed ungulates Perissodactyla 6 accountsHorses, wild asses, tapirs and rhinoceroses.
Treeshrews Scandentia 5 accountsSmall arboreal mammals of Southeast Asia.
Bandicoots Peramelemorphia 4 accountsOmnivorous marsupials of Australia and New Guinea.
Sloths and anteaters Pilosa 3 accountsSlow-moving xenarthrans with a highly specialised diet.
Hyraxes Hyracoidea 3 accountsRock-dwelling herbivores, distant relatives of the elephants.
Pangolins Pholidota 3 accountsThe most trafficked mammals in the world.
Armadillos Cingulata 2 accountsThe only mammals with a bony shell.
Platypus and echidnas Monotremata 2 accountsThe only mammals that lay eggs.
Elephants Proboscidea 2 accountsThe largest land mammals alive today.
Manatees and dugongs Sirenia 2 accountsAquatic herbivores of warm, shallow waters.
Colugos Dermoptera 1 accountGliders of Southeast Asia, without flapping flight.
Aardvark Tubulidentata 1 accountA single living species, burrowing and nocturnal.
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