Bhupathy’s Purple Frog
Although this animal hardly looks like its amphibian cousins, it is, in fact, a frog that was discovered in the Western Ghats in India. The frog was named after the Indian herpetologist, Dr. Subramaniam Bhupathy, who passed away in 2014, in the same Western Ghats mountain range the frog was discovered in. Noted for its purple skin, strange pointy nose that makes it look uncannily pig-like, and the blue rings around its eyes, it pretty much lives its entire life underground. It has a long tongue, which it uses to source out termites and ants in order to survive, and it only goes above ground to mate, and keep its species from going into extinction.
