Frog whisperer: Australian scientist speaks to frogs
Professor Michael Mahony speaks to frogs
Location: Cooranbong, Australia
He’s mastered imitating frog
shrills, croaks and whistles
Michael Mahony, Biology Professor:
"I always get a thrill when you (get a) call back and sometimes you forget to work because you know you'd just like to talk to the frogs for a while and it's sort of good fun."
30% of Australia's 240 species of frog are threatened
by climate change, water pollution,
and habitat loss
Location: University of Newcastle
Mahony has helped develop a method to preserve frog species
They have created the first
genome bank for Australian frogs
Michael Mahony, Biology Professor:
“At heart we are about saving animals in nature, but we also recognise when things become really bad, we have to take an insurance policy. And the insurance policy is to store their genome for the future.”
One of Mahoney’s former students
named a species after him
It’s called 'Mahony's Toadlet.'