Students bring in spy cameras, commission DNA tests, and search high and low in their 'treasure hunt' to find endangered animals in one of the most remote parts of the country.
From there sparks of curiosity had been lit; the students wanted to know what else was out there and they'd set their sights on some of Australia's most undetected wildlife.For more than two years, they would travel far and wide through the bush, climbing steep rocky escarpments to follow animal tracks, leaving tempting food close to the cameras in the hope they would catch a glimpse of the secretive monotreme.
"We looked on a map and we thought, well, they should be here. How are we going to find them?" Mr Kleinig said. "We'd put spy cameras out on natural waterholes with no luck. We even did some environmental DNA tests with Charles Darwin University with no luck. So it was quite a treasure hunt.Manyallaluk School student Aralise Fredricks said she had now seen the tiny bird that attracted twitchers from across the globe in the "hundreds"."We'd never seen one before and then we put out the spy cameras and [caught] them.
As they tumble out they stamp their feet loudly on their way to fill up buckets with water from the nearby stream, to replenish the tiny pond.The technology picked up everything from tiny native mice to donkeys, wild cats, snakes, and a plethora of wild birds, student Emmalishia Nelson said., Mr Kleinig said the project had spurred on learning.It's always exciting to find out what animals the spy camera has captured.
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