ESEARCHERS FROM THE University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the Australian Museum have discovered that banjo, used audio uploaded by citizen scientists to the FrogID app. “We had thousands of recordings of banjo frog calls at our fingertips,” says former UNSW honours student Grace Gillard. “Using this data, we analysed nearly 700 banjo frog calls from…an area of more than 1.7 million square kilometres, from Tasmania to far north Queensland.” This research debunks previous hypotheses that variations in animal calls are most strongly linked to habitat structure such as tree canopy cover.
