Swarms of cash-colored frogs in India's farmlands; what's the reason for their presence?

A National Parks of India staff member, surveying amphibians in Narsinghpur, Madhya Pradesh, captured a strange footage. In the picture, a group of yellow frogs can be seen hopping around in a waterlogged field, with individual frogs puffing out their blue gills.

The image has been frantically reposted and played more than 144,000 times since it was uploaded to social media.

According to experts, the frogs are Indian bullfrogs called Hoplobatrachus tigerinus, which are usually green or brown, and the males change color to attract the opposite sex during the rainy mating season.

They are mainly found in Afghanistan, India, Burma, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, but they are so prolific that they are now said to have spread to more distant areas such as the Maldives and Madagascar.

And the bullfrogs have a strange diet, preying on small birds, mice, and other animals, and even feeding on other species of frogs or tadpoles.

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the golden bullfrogs show no signs of extinction, and their survival activities are not threatened by human behavior.

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Because of heavy rainfall, India's frogs married for rain divorced netizens: this way really work?

September 11, 2019 Frog couple married for rain in Madhya Pradesh, India, forced to divorce because of torrential rains.

In July when India was experiencing a major drought, a local religious organization held a marriage ceremony for a female and male frog in the expectation that it would bring rain.

But with Madhya Pradesh recently experiencing its highest rainfall in 13 years, they again tried to reduce it through the divorce ceremony.

Live shot! Hundreds attend wedding for frogs in India in search of rain Netizen: is it raining?

On June 8, people in the Indian state of Karnataka gave two frogs a traditional Hindu wedding to pray for rain because the weather was too hot and dry.

The groom? Bride? dressed in customized outfits, were caught in the presence of more than two hundred guests to consummate the froggy event.

The holding of the? Frog wedding? It is a local custom to pray for rain, and the frogs come from two different villages, which is believed to be the only way the rain gods will accept the appeal.

After the wedding, the frogs are taken to a small pond nearby and released.