With the onset of the monsoons, the Indian subcontinent comes alive to the croaks, clicks and reverberating calls of frogs and toads. When the sun sets, the silence of the hills is shattered as thousands of frogs and toads break into a song. The Western Ghats in India is resplendent with different frog and toad species, many known and others waiting to be discovered. Tree frogs, like the one in the photograph, are generally active by night when they hunt for small insects and other invertebrates. The common tree frog prefers to rest in a cool place during the day. Male and female frogs court only after night. Once they have mated, the pair creates a whitish foam nest. This is then attached to rocks, or leaves and twigs overhanging a waterbody. The morning sun hardens the nest but within a couple of days, or when rain falls, the nest dissolves, releasing the tadpoles that drop conveniently into the water below the carefully-located nest. Here, tadpoles emerge and metamorphose into more croaky frogs!