The Resplendent Shrub Frog
Shola’s Shining Secret
Small in size, supreme in significance. No bigger than a thumbnail and bright as a ripe coffee cherry, the resplendent shrub frog lives nowhere else on Earth but the misty montane grasslands of the Anamudi massif, high in Kerala’s Western Ghats. Critically endangered, this tiny sovereign of the summit is a living sign of a healthy mountain — where it still sings, the forest is still whole.