Wild poison frogs, such as this strawberry poison-dart frog (Oophaga pumilio), are poisonous due to the insects they eat. While indigenous tribes in Colombia use toxic skin secretions from poison frogs (particularly the golden poison frog) to coat blow darts they use in hunting, the captive-b...
poison dart frogs have been heavily trafficked from the rainforests of the Pacific coast to Europe, North America and Japan, where they are sold to collectors for up to US$2,000 per breeding pair. (The estimate comes from illegal websites on ...
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A poisonous animal can only transfer its toxins if another animal comes into physical contact with it or eats it (a sort of posthumous revenge). Poison dart frogs, for instance, secrete a toxic substance from their skin which is potentially fatal to predators that venture too close. Venomous ...
A poisonous animal can only transfer its toxins if another animal comes into physical contact with it or eats it (a sort of posthumous revenge). Poison dart frogs, for instance, secrete a toxic substance from their skin which is potentially fatal to predators that venture too close. Venomous ...
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Poison dart frogs (Dendrobates, Phyllobates spp., and Ranitomeya spp., and others) Despite being poisonous in the wild, dart frogs lose their chemical weaponry after living in captivity for a short time. Mantella frogs (Mantella) Red-eye tree frogs (Agalychnis callidryas) Monkey frogs (Phyllo...
When you think of poisonous animals, you don't necessarily think of birds first. Snakes, perhaps. Frogs? Maybe. Heck, evenpoisonous spidersprobably spring to mind before birds — which, it should be said, can be dangerous in their own way. Cassowaries, for instance, have been known to ki...
When you think of poisonous animals, you don't necessarily think of birds first. Snakes, perhaps. Frogs? Maybe. Heck, evenpoisonous spidersprobably spring to mind before birds — which, it should be said, can be dangerous in their own way. Cassowaries, for instance, have been known to ki...