Live stream from remote NT waterhole reveals desert wildlife after dark
A dingo wanders to the edge of a remote waterhole in Watarrka National Park, in the red heart of Central Australia. A wedge-tailed eagle dips its beak in for a drink. Wallabies pick their way through the rocks nearby. Once night falls, frogs call out from the shadows around the pool. A camera has been installed at the site, a pool on a temporary stream on the Watarrka escarpment near Kings Canyon, about 350 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs, and has been streaming around the clock for about a month. Researchers plan to keep using the footage to track wildlife activity and changes at the waterhole as the climate shifts.
The stream gives researchers a real-time record of how dingoes, wallabies, birds and other animals use a waterhole that could dry up or change as Central Australia's climate shifts, and lets them monitor water availability without disturbing the site.
Source: Remote waterhole live stream a window into secrets of NT desert (abc.net.au).
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