The Amazon milk frog is a large rainforestfrogthat is named for the poisonous, milky fluid it secretes when stressed. It is also known as the blue milk frog, for the striking blue coloring of its mouth and feet. Its other name is the Mission golden-eyed tree frog, for the black cross...
Amphibiansinclude the famous – and cute – red eyed tree frog, and the famous – but not so cute – poison dart frogs (there are more than one species of these deadly creatures). The poison dart frog's bright colours tell potential predators that it is poisonous. There are moreinsectstha...
The number of animals in the Amazon Rainforest is huge. It is estimated that the region is home toone tenthof all of the Earth's species. On this page you'll find information, pictures and facts about just some of the amazing animals that live in the world's biggest rainforest. The ...
Amazon, as research experts have established, is home to some of the most deadly animals including jaguars, electric eels, poison dart frog and many venomous snakes. In some parts of the rainforest, the floor is permanently dark because of covering canopy. ...
Poison Dart Frogs The Ecuador Poison Dart Frog (Ameerega bilinguis), in the family Dendrobatidae found in Colombia, Ecuador, and possibly Peru. Its natural habitats are forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes. It is threatened by habitat loss....
Yellow-banded Poison Dart Frog 1)Plant Diversity is Still a Mystery The number one fact on our list has to be that scientists still do not fully understand how so many species of plant exist in the rainforest, and why they do in the first place. The Amazon rainforest is one of the ...
“Not much…just traveled to the Amazon, slept under mosquito netting, checked for bats in the toilets, braved torrential downpours in the rainforest canopy, and did research on tiny poison dart frogs. How ‘bout you?” That is exactly what this band of intrepid explorers did – and then...
the Amazon. Some of these include reptiles like theanacondaand theJesus lizard; mammals like thehowler monkey,golden lion tamarin, jaguar, sloth, spider monkey, and theAmazon River dolphin; birds like thetoucan and the scarlet macaw; and amphibians like thepoison dart frog and the glass frog....