A Taiwanese photographer found a frog-like and flesh-like animal in the mountains of western India, which looked strange and funny. So the Taiwanese photographer asked the local people, only to learn that this strange frog is called the West Ghatsan nose frog.
Because this frog is a species endemic to Mount Ghats in Kerala, India, and because it has a strange nose, it is named the West Ghats nose frog. Since its discovery in 2003, the frog has been established by the relevant departments and has become the first new family of frogs discovered since 1926.
The 7 cm long West Ghats nose frog is burrowing, living underground for most of the year, crawling out of the ground for two weeks to mate when the monsoon arrives, so this hidden habit has made it known to biologists until recently.
This rare frog is on the verge of extinction because the Indonesian archipelago is a traditional habitat for the West Ghats snout frog, and locals grow coffee that destroys the original plants.
Since the West Ghats live underground all year round, the main food of the West Ghats is to eat termites underground. It only occurs on the ground for about two weeks during the rainy season, so the breeding season is mainly in May before the rainy season.