A peek into the secret lives of Coorg’s many frogs

When radical deliberation of frogs, they ideate them arsenic slimy, brownish oregon greenish and surviving successful ponds, says Dr Vishnupriya Sankararaman. But successful reality, particularly successful the Western Ghats, they are incredibly diverse, occurring successful truthful galore shapes, colours and occupying aggregate habitats.

“They’re connected treetops, rocks, successful streams, wrong bamboo…in each situation you tin imagine,” says the conservation ecologist, who believes that adjacent though they are tiny and often ignored, frogs correspond the Western Ghats successful a mode nary of the different taxa do. “They unrecorded everyplace successful the Western Ghats, exploiting (ecological) niches we don’t deliberation of.”