Bats are the only mammals on Earth that can use their own power to fly. Sure, flying squirrels, lemurs, and possums exist, but like this airborne frog, they’re faking it.
In a bid to understand more about Australia’s microbat populations, scientists from the University of Adelaide are asking the public to use bat detectors to record and analyse each species unique calls.
For more than 20 years, volunteers led by Jenny Maclean have been helping flying-foxes afflicted by tick paralysis on the Atherton Tablelands.
Here’s your chance to play scientist for a night and help microbat research.
You might be shocked to learn that many Australian mammals are unknown to science. Taxonomist Harry Parnaby says it’s time to turbo-charge research.