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.

MPP in Kalinga ....