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Context
- Researchers have developed a device that will allow scientists to monitor frogs in the wild.
- Described as the world’s first solar-powered remote survey device that can be installed at any frog pond and which receives a 3G or 4G cellular network, it has been named “FrogPhone”.
- With FrogPhone, researchers can simply “call” a frog habitat.
- After a call is made to one of the FrogPhones already on a site, the device will take three seconds to receive it.
- During these few seconds, the device’s temperature sensors will get activated
Benefits
- It will reduce costs and risks, including the negative impact of human presence on the field site.
- These devices also allow for monitoring of local frog populations more frequently than before, which is important because these populations are recognised as indicators of environmental health.
GPS wildlife tracking
- GPS wildlife tracking is a process whereby biologists, scientific researchers or conservation agencies can remotely observe relatively finescale movement or migratory patterns in a freeranging wild animal using the Global Positioning System and optional environmental sensors or automated data-retrieval technologies such as Argos satellite uplink, mobile data telephony or GPRS and a range of analytical software tools
Attachment
- Collar attachment
- Harness attachment
- Direct attachment
- Other attachment methods
- Software
- Data retrieval Species of frog in News
- Polypedates bengalensis
- ‘Maveli’ Frog
- Astrobatrachus Kurichiyana Frog
- The four new species found this year are Nepal’s Wart Frog, Indian Toad, Indus Valley Toad and Indian burrowing Frog.
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