“It creates a new chapter in the frog Kama Sutra,” he says. University of Evansville herpetologist Noah Gordon calls the new discovery a very “nontraditional” mating position. (See ' Wild Romance: Weird Animal Courtship and Mating Rituals.') It’s like watching a scripted event,” he said in an email. 'It has been a wonderful experience to observe the entire breeding sequence of this unique frog.
“So far, this mating position, is known only in Bombay night frogs,' says study leader Sathyabhama Das Biju, a biologist at the University of Delhi.