Those Freaky Frogs

byKatie Bagli

The onset of the monsoons in the Sahyadri Mountains of India is greeted with a frenzy of activity. Nights become alive with the symphonic operas of frogs that suddenly make their presence felt, and one wonders where these frogs had been hiding the rest of the year. The rains accompany the romance of these amphibians, the males calling out lustily to their partners to be.

Red-eyed Tree Frog The Egyptians actually considered frogs as a symbol of life and fertility, since several thousands of them were born each year after the annual flooding of the River Nile, which made the land around extremely fertile. Closer to home in southern India, people celebrate the wed