On a rainy night in the dense evergreen forests of Sirsi in the Western Ghats, my team and I (Deyatima) were engrossed in tracing a blue-eyed yellow bush frog’s call, when we were distracted by an unfamiliar call. Curious, we followed the source and came upon two frogs sitting in close proximity, about a foot above the ground. Chances were, this was either a male and female, or two males. However, it was rare to find two males in the same tree that close and not engaged in a tussle. Further investigation revealed a cluster of tiny eggs glued to a leaf few inches above the “parent” frogs. Evidently, they were guarding their eggs against the owner of the unfamiliar call, which came from the same species as the pair. I wondered how these tiny frogs were not lost or confused, because we were in a complex habitat with dense, evergreen trees that made it difficult even for our research team to locate previously identified study sites at night.