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Abstract
Parental care is widespread among vertebrates. Caring parents however incur costs that include higher predation risk. Anurans (frogs and toads) have among the most diverse forms of parental care, and in this lecture, I will talk about how we ended up discovering new reproductive behaviour among frogs of the Western Ghats. I will highlight how a species of frog that breeds exclusively inside bamboo reeds in the Western Ghats cares for offspring. Using experiments in the field, I demonstrate that male parental care does indeed enhance offspring survivorship and will discuss potential implications of such behaviour. Moving beyond the Western Ghats, I will also place our findings in the larger context of the evolution of parental care in anurans and examine if the occurrence of care is associated with morphology that minimizes predation risk.