Kalinga Cricket Frog
- Indian scientists have reported a first-of-its-kind discovery of morphological phenotypic plasticity (MPP) in the Kalinga cricket frog.
- MPP is the ability of an organism to show drastic morphological (physical features) variations in response to natural environmental variations or stimuli.
- The recent study has indicated that the frog species being endemic to the Eastern Ghatsis seen in the Western Ghats with contrasting morphometric differences.
- The Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats are the two different biogeographic zones, with unique histories. While the Western Ghats are considered as a biodiversity hotspot, that is not the case with its eastern counterpart.
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