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Foot flagging behaviour in Kottigehara dancing Frog

Dancing frogs of the Western Ghats exhibit
spectacular foot flagging behaviour to maintain
their territory. Read Doris et al 2013
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In this video clip, Kottigehara
dancing frog does a foot flagging along with
advertisement calls. This is one among 24 species of
dancing frogs known from the Western Ghats.

During amplexus, female carries male on her back and moves to shallow part of streams. Here she puts enormous energy and power to make a cavity in the stream-bed using her hindlimbs.
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After release eggs inside the cavity, female dances over egg clutch and covers them with pebbles and small stones. To know more about this behaviour, read: Gururaja KV. 2010. Novel reproductive mode in a torrent frog Micrixalus saxicola (Jerdon) from the Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa, 2642:45-52.
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Courtship behaviour in
Kumbara Night Frog:
After initial
contact with female, male keeps calling. Female
stands on hind limb and touch branches where
oviposition occurs. She also positions herself for
axillary amplexus.

Amplexus and Oviposition
in Kumbara Night Frog:
In an axillary
amplexus position, few minutes prior to oviposition
both male and female stands on their hindlimb. At
the time of oviposition, female makes a hand stand
along with male. Male gets separated from female in
a fraction of second before ovipositioin and watches
oviposition.

Mudcovering of eggs in
Kumbara Night Frog:
After the
oviposition, male moves to oviposition site and
covers egg clutch with mud from stream.