Introducing Animals

Fully formed froglets emerge from dry bamboo nurseries

Rare amphibian mates in bamboo stalks; eggs forgo tadpole stage

Male white-spotted bush frog

COME HITHER  Male white-spotted bush frogs make a home inside a bamboo stalk and then attract females to mate there.

K.S. Seshadri

By Vijaysree Venkatraman

- More than 2 years ago

In a remote, wet evergreen forest in southern India, the male white-spotted bush frog calls to lure a female into his snug bamboo-stalk love nest.