Meet the Dilmah Frog

Recently, myself and National Geographic explorer, Matthew Cicanese were invited to Sri Lanka to document a recently discovered species of frog.
Pseudophilautus dilmah, the Dilmah shrub frog, is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae, endemic to Sri Lanka.
The species was discovered and documented by Sri Lankan prominent wildlife researcher and herpetologist Mendis Wickramasinghe and his crew from Loolkandura forest of Central highlands of Sri Lanka.
It is distinguished mainly from other shrub frogs by the absence of nuptial pads and anterior and posterior dorsum without horny spinules.
Its natural habitats are wet highland forests of Sri Lanka. As other frogs in the island, it is thought to be threatened by habitat loss and other anthropogenic works.The frog was named after Sri Lanka's finest tea exporting company Dilmah Conservation, for its dedicated efforts to biodiversity conservation on the island.

[@ben.alldridge]

That’s a great video. I think you’ve genuinely got a future in documentary stuff, it’s nice to have information presented without it being bludgeoned into you.

[@EricPease]

wow, i came for the funny and left with the feels! nicely done!

[@trembichmovingmoments8778]

Great video Paul ☺
And the voice-over is fine, too 😉 (could be a little bit louder though)

[@PAULJOHNBAYFIELD]

Thanks !

[@schizzlschnitzl]

very cineastic, i like it a lot! :)

[@PAULJOHNBAYFIELD]

schizzlschnitzl High five

[@omarsaletovicprins9632]

David Attenborough is getting up there in age. Just saying...

[@omarsaletovicprins9632]

All jokes aside, beautiful visuals Paul, very well done. Great camera work! This I take was done with your D5?

[@PAULJOHNBAYFIELD]

OmarSaletovicPrins Cheers Omar. This was on D850

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PAUL JOHN BAYFIELD Ive always wanted to be a pro wildlife photographer... any suggestions?