Can a chorus of frogs knock Taylor Swift off the charts?
"So far we've got about 16,300 verified frogs of 96 species.Dr Rowley said she hoped Songs of Disappearance would leapfrog pop sensation Taylor Swift and take top spot on the Christmas ARIA Chart, to bring attention to the frogs' plight.
"Hearing these animals that used to be calling from the rainforest gullies in South East Queensland … and are now no longer heard, it's really awful," she said. "[Humans] are responsible for the loss of at least four species of frog in Australia and we've got another 40 species hanging on, threatened with extinction."'Unicorn' frogs featured"The dwarf tree frog — the sort of screecher — was the most commonly recorded frog on the Gold Coast this year," she said.The album also features the call of the green-thighed frog, which is listed as vulnerable in NSW.
"Up in the mountains in the rainforest there are all these mountain frogs … it's a really important part of the world." Dr Rowley wants the album to top the music charts "to give these threatened voices [of] frogs a voice to be heard by lots of people."
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