Today Bill and Sean hit the road, heading back up to St Bees Island for 2 weeks of fieldwork. This time they'll be analysing some bellowing data and also doing some play-back experiments.
What are those? Well, play-back experiments
are a great way for ecologists to determine what the important components of a call are - and what calls mean to other individuals. Essentially, scientists record calls from an animal and then play the calls back - either in whole or in part - to gauge the response by other individuals.
Hopefully, these experiments will give us a better idea of what koalas communicate to each other.
Stay tuned for updates from the field!