his advertisement call again to attract another female. In this way, the male decides where the eggs are to be laid. This is the only known Old World frog species where the male and female do not engage in amplexus, the mating behaviour in which the male frog grasps the female round the body and fertilizes the eggs as they are laid. After 12 to 15 days, the developing tadpoles emerge from the jelly-clad eggs and drop into the stream below, where they continue their development. Status Although locally common, the number of Nyctibatrachus humayuni frogs is declining slowly. The species is listed as "Vulnerable" in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species because its range is fragmented and amounts to a total area smaller than . Its habitat is being degraded by deforestation, agricultural activities, pollution, and disturbance by humans. References External links Nyctibatrachus Frogs of India Endemic fauna of the Western Ghats Amphibians described in 1955 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot