Echidna app leads to spike in monotreme research

Solstice Media
3 min readMay 8, 2019

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Technology that allows amateur wildlife enthusiasts to record echidna movements is generating thousands of images to help advance research into the curious egg-laying mammal.

South Australian researcher Tahlia Perry launched the EchidnaCSI mobile app in September 2017 in a bid to fill-in the informational gaps about the iconic but misunderstood creature.

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