![](\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/files\/2009\/06\/frogjpg.jpeg\")
A FROG that constantly changes colour is being worshipped as a GOD in India.Hundreds of curious followers flock to Reji Kumar\u2019s home every day to pray and ask for miracles.<\/p>\n
A FROG that constantly changes colour is being worshipped as a GOD in India.
Hundreds of curious followers flock to Reji Kumar\u2019s home every day to pray and ask for miracles.<\/p>\n
Now one of the country\u2019s top zoologists plans to study the rainbow frog. But Reji, 35, who keeps the creature in a glass bottle after finding it while out watering plants, is afraid it might CROAK first.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cMy one problem is that this frog does not appear to eat. I keep trying to feed it but it doesn\u2019t eat anything. I don\u2019t know what else to give it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The frog was a dazzling WHITE colour when Reji, from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, first spotted it.<\/p>\n
Then it changed to YELLOW and had gone GREY by the time he got it home.<\/p>\n
Lift worker Reji added: \u201cBy night the frog was dark yellow, and then it became transparent so you could see its internal organs.<\/p>\n
“It seemed like a miracle to me that this frog had so many different coats. So now people come to see him and pray to him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Professor Oommen V. Oommen from India\u2019s Kerala University, said it was not uncommon for animals to change colour.<\/p>\n
He explained: \u201cFrogs do change colour to scare away predators.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut from what I have heard, the frog at Kumar\u2019s place changes colour so frequently it is a bit unusual. I will collect it for study.\u201d<\/p>\n
From the Sun<\/a> (London) June 8, 2009<\/p>\n Boy, that Professor Oommen V. Oommen sounds like quite the card, or a Melvillian divorce proceeding. We hope he never finds the Dowbrigade “a bit unusual”. On the topic of worshiping frogs, we seem to remember spending time among a tribe in the Upper Rio Napo region of the Ecuadorian Amazon that did just that, although their frogs only changed color after being licked…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A FROG that constantly changes colour is being worshipped as a GOD in India.Hundreds of curious followers flock to Reji Kumar\u2019s home every day to pray and ask for miracles. Now one of the country\u2019s top zoologists plans to study … Continue reading