In india culture frogs have a significant role.. Indians make frog marriages in the name that these marriages will result in Rainfall. In Indian villages still we can find and see these frogs in temples, streets, at wells(baavi in telugu), at farms, almost every where especially at nights. Sometimes in our houses too(well they don’t need permission to get in).
Villagers don’t kill them though they were entering into our houses and scarying us. Because they believe that they part of Indian culture and tradition. So they won’t harm those frogs. As we all know Indian villagers are a bit more addicted to our traditions than the urban people. Frogs are very much helpful to control the population of mosquitoes which results in preventing malaria and other diseases spread by mosquitoes. Naturalists and Medical researchers are saying that the increase in population of frogs is so much needed inorder to control these diseases.
In the past 5 years almost Ten’s of thousands of people were effected with malaria. In olden days we don’t have this much of trouble with mosquitoes as frogs eat the larva(eggs of mosquitoes) which are usually found in drainages, mud and water stored places, near ponds, in the rain water that is stored and left in some places.
Now a days there’s a very big market for frog legs, so many frogs were killed and their legs were being exported to countries like china. In fact in the entire sub-continent frog’s race is going to end said by Naturalists.
Ancient Indians are very talented, smart and they are good in guessing the mind set of future generation people. That’s why they included all these scientific things in the culture and named them as a tradition, exactly, made them as a part of our tradition, so that we won’t rule them out.
I don’t know exactly about their marriage issue which, people say, will result in rainfall. But keeping them alive and allowing them to roam in our places will definitely decrease the mosquitoes problem.