Episode 8 Phd. Candidate Danielle Wallace: Finding Rare Giant Burrowing Frogs and Understanding Frog response to Chytrid Fungus!
Description
Danielle Wallace is a Phd. Candidate at the University of Melbourne, working on understanding how tree frogs have responded to the deadly amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis or Bd for short. Danielle tells us about her first fateful encounter with a frog, and how it propelled her on a lifelong obsession. In addition we get a glimpse behind the curtain of For Frogs Sake a documentary chronicling Danielle's discovery of a population of rare Australian frogs!
Find Danielle @that_frog_gorl on Twitter/X or dani_k_wallace on Instagram!
For Frogs Sake: https://iview.abc.net.au/show/for-frogs-sake
To learn more about Daniel Viva Barreto or to help support his work to find the lost frogs of Colombia click here: https://experiment.com/projects/can-edna-track-lost-harlequin-toads-in-the-colombian-andes-and-assist-conservation-efforts?s=discover
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