Wildlife filmmaker duo Ajay and Vijay Bedi have been trying to highlight the lesser-known species of India for nearly a decade now, and with their film, The Secret Life of Frogs (2019), the brothers have made quite a buzz in the research and conservation circles. While editing it, the Bedis realised that one of the amphibian species - T himalayanus or Orange warted salamander, a rare salamander variant found in Darjeeling, West Bengal - that had been known to be silent - can vocalise. The discovery has now been published in a peer-reviewed scientific paper in Salamandara - German Journal of Herpetology.

Ajay and Vijay Bedi