Ribbiting stuff: museum app gives people chance to help in frog research

Australian Museum teams up with IBM to monitor the country's native frog population by having their calls recorded

The Australian Museum has teamed up with IBM to count the country's native frog population via a world-first app that records their calls and sends them to experts for identification.

App FrogID will give the public the chance to carry out Australia's first such national count, which begins on Friday and is intended to support researchers' efforts to save endangered native species. Australia has 240 named native species of frog, but the museum wants to identify what it believes are dozens more still ribbiting under the radar.