Poison Dart Frogs

the poisonous dart frog has a bright dotted skin that contains alkaloids which is poisounous to humans if you touch it with a cut or another opening on your hand but if not the poison cannot not go through your skin

YES! They hop and walk around the rain forest.

Get to a hospital quick. Get into the emergency room. Or If those are not available get a towel shirt or strong long leaf and tie it around the part the poisen touched like say on your fore arm then tie it very tightly around your arm about maybe 3-4 inches away from affected area so that the poisen if inside blood stream dosent spread. Or put anti-biotics on it then go to a hospital quick. Or wash it good with hot or cold water i think then got to the hospital you need an anti venom

Poison dart frogs, as their name suggests, secrete a poison through their skin. The poison functions like an acid, seeping through skin and affecting neural activity. As a result of their powerful poison, the frogs have no animal predators (except for humans).

Sadly, the poison dart frog is threatened by a fungus called chytrid fungus, which may be the only living thing that lives on poison dart frogs. The fungus blocks the frog's skin, suffocating it. Poison dart frogs are now extinct in the wild.

Most species, and there are several, release an alkaloid toxin through their skin.

They do not synthesize their own poison but store chemical toxins from some of the insects they eat like ants and termites. This is good since it means that many captive frogs do not have sufficient levels of toxin to harm their owners.

It is the secretions of the skin of the poison dart frogs that is toxic. All the frogs of this family "borrow" toxins from what they eat that actually makes the toxins (mostly ants and mites) because the frogs themselves don't manufacture the poisons. These toxins, a few of which can be quite dangerous, are "worn" by the frogs for protection.

Usually I keep my dart frogs at temperatures between 75 and 82 degrees. But don't let the temperature go above 82 because only a couple of hours with temperatures over 82 can kill your frogs. So just keep tat in mind! Also at night let the temperature fall a couple of degrees,this can be good for your frogs and promote breeding activity. I hope this helped.

yes it does all frogs have a back bone but the poison dart frog has a very weak back bone and very easy to brake so that why it uses poison to protect it's self

Scorpions are generally nocturnal and would rarely be out during the day.

Frogs don't take a maternal or paternal role in raising their young.

Some use the tadpoles as lunch.

it can be blue, red, orange, etc. (mostly bright colors) just look at images of them on Google

The Phylum of a Poison Dart Frog is Chordata. All, or mostly all vertebrates are under that Phylum. Also, all Poison Dart Frogs are under the Phylum Chordata.

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A Poison Dart Frog weighs about two grams.

Dendrobates azureus exudes a toxic secretion like the other members of its family. None of the frogs make the poison they "wear" on their skins but get it from what they eat. Of the variety of insects and such in their diets, it is the ants and mites that actually manufacture and carry the toxins - until the frog eats them and "borrows" their poison. Wikipedia has more information, and you've got links.

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Also, to some animals, the bright colors are enough of a warning sign, so the bright colors are really their first line of defense, then poison. In order to get the poison, they must eat poisonous insects, usually ants and grasshoppers, which also provides them the nourishment they need. They also need moisture- if you set them in a desert for about ten minutes, they'd be dead. Other than that they are not particularly adapted, but those things alone restrict them to the rainforest environment.

The Golden Poisonous Dart Frog protects itself by a parotid glands which are located behind the eyes at the top of the head and any predators that the Golden Poisonous Dart Frog has finds the poisonous glands distasteful and can tolerate these high levels, but for other animals they are not so lucky just as humans are not. The chemicals in these frogs varies from hallucinogens, nerve poisons, poison that narrow the blood vessels and convulsants.

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1.5 to 6cm in length.

One grew to 13cm long.

insects and grass The easy answer is they eat bugs, live bugs. In the wild, they eat bugs and beetles that eat poisonous plants. It is these bugs that the frogs are able to extract the alkaloid toxins that they use to make betraxotoxin (spelling may be wrong) (the same toxin found in the liver of blow fish. See blow fish sushi for info) stored in glands on their back. When the frog feels threatened, The frog will present their back with their head down and butt up and secrete poison from the glands. When kept in captivity, controlling the diet of the bugs keep the alkaloid toxin from the frog and the frogs loose their toxicity.
They eat plants and bugs
In the wild they eat mostly fire ants. The reason being, these ants are the source of the frog's poison. In captivity, owners can buy them wingless fruit flies and vitamin dust at most pet-stores and feed it to them, although most pet-stores do not supply poison dart frogs. A great place to get one is a private breeder.
Dart frogs purely eat and survive off meat. They will eat spiders, ants, termites and insects such as flies. They have few predators because they produce a high toxin level of poison.
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It eats small terrestrial invertebrates. Mostly insects like small beetles and other small prey. Also they eat small new born crickets

No, poison dart frogs are not scaly. Reason being, they are amphibians, and amphibians do not have scales.

The biggest species of poison dart frog is Phyllobates terribilis, at up to 3 inches long.