This guy is the Green Grocer (cyclochila australasiae), one of the loudest insects in the world. The noise this cicada makes is one the great sounds of the Australian bush, iconic. A hot, hard day in Ku-ring-gai yesterday rewarded us with fantastic wildlife, the Green Grocer males dominated the senses with their shrill song which can get up to between 120 and 150 decibels. Fantastic.
It's a real noise, natural. We live in a world now with so much extra noise, much of it very unnatural. One of the most important skills in research is recognizing signal within noise. I've been in this game a long time and I'm still learning constantly.
My apologies for not making much noise myself lately. I'm getting a lot of messages, comments, I really appreciate it. It's simply impossible to get back to everyone right now, I've got a lot of stuff going on. I'm finalizing work on camera traps to get them right for the upcoming Himalayan winter which is going to be a big transition from the early Australian summer I'm in right now. I will have though, from my Pokhara base, time to do some catching up when I come out of the mountains.
I'm excited about the upcoming $5 tigers, they're really going to help our project work. Hemant needs a new camera! He had an unfortunate mishap while bravely doing anti-poaching work from a raft during monsoon in western Nepal. The T shirt sales are helping with gear a lot, thank you :)
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