Heard of Romeo, the frog? Turns out, he isn't lonely any longer

This sounds like a fairy tale frog prince meets Shakespeare story.

No, it is really about a frog. A sehuencas water frog that lives in an aquarium in Bolivia.

Am sure there’s something special about him. Planning on telling me?

It’s complicated. See, for a long time they thought Romeo was the last of his species. They wanted him to reproduce and even created a match making profile for him.

And they found another frog?
Hold on. Romeo had lived in the aquarium for there for 10 years now. Meanwhile the sehuencas region had seen a new dam come up and changed the entire ecology.



So that had killed all the frogs?
That is what they thought, till an expedition went and found Juliet last week.

So they found one more frog?
No, actually they found five more.

Wow. That’s great news. So what’s happening now? Romance is blooming I believe.



No. Not yet. You have to take precautions, no?
Really? I thought the idea was to create more of these water frogs.

But Juliet is now being tested for disease, so Romeo doesn’t fall ill.

Aha. Makes sense I guess. Romeo needs to be patient.

Absolutely. He also needs to change his social media profile. @romeothefrog, his Twitter handle says he is the loneliest water frog in the world.

He has a twitter handle?
Yes, Romeo has announced the news of Juliet being found on his handle already. He’s even posted a video of Juliet.

May be we will soon see videos of baby Romeos.

Baby Juliets too. We shouldn’t forget the girls.