The dying poison dart frog is a slender, black frog with golden stripes and blue legs and feet. It lives in forests in Amazonia and the Guyanas. It eats ants and termites, and secretes toxic alkaloids from its skin that serve as a defense against predators and come in bright warning colors. The female lays small clutches of 2-10 eggs on leaves or the ground, and the tadpoles develop on the backs of the parents before metamorphosing over 8-12 weeks. While poisonous, these frogs are not currently threatened in the wild, though some species are vulnerable. Their toxins are also being studied for potential medical applications.
2. DECRIPTION
The dying poison dart frog is a smooth
skinned slender frog . It has parallel pupils
in black eyes .Their Fingers , and toes are
unwebbed.The dying poison dart frogs
mainly lives on land , but they still have
small discs on fingers and toes to climb
through vegetation.They are alsoTwo
inches long. Their fundamental color is
black with a pattern of golden stripes and
the legs and feet are blue with black stripes
. Dying poison dart frogs also may be white
and black , white and blue , or blue and
black . The dying poison dart
frog probbobly got it’s because Spaniards
reportedly thought natives in South
America used the skin of the frog to dye
the parrot feathers used in their rituals.
3. The dying poison dart frog lives in Amazonia , mainly the three Guyanas.
4. The dying poison dart frog dines on mainly
ants and termites , from witch the frog
derives the chemicals necessary to fuse its
poisonous skin ooze.
5. These amazing animals are diurnal and terrestrial.
Both of the different sexes of frog engage in posturing
, chasing and bouts of wrestling on the forest floor
.Breeding of new dying poison dart frogs occurs
throught the year . Most of the frogs that engage do
not coddle in amplexus .The male dying poison dart
frog may deposit sperm followed by females laying
eggs or vice versa .The female frog usually lay small
clutches of eggs[2-10]on a leaf or a carefully cleared
patch of ground .Tadpoles upon hatching wriggle
carefully onto the back of an attending parent , where
they are attached by a sticky mucus and carried next page
6. To a small pool.The metamorphosis of a dying
poison dart frog takes 8-12 weeks . Several
clutches of eggs are laid during the year.
7. Dying poison dart frogs evolved to be able to
roam freely in the daytime when they could
take advantage of the vast food source of
day-active ants. Mucous –producing skin
glands on the back of the dying poison dart
frog have been modified to produce toxic
compounds called alkaloids .These
compounds on the dying poison dart frogs
cause varying effects from a distasteful
8. Numbness of enjoyment to heart failure.The
dying poison dart frog’s color is a warning to
predators that they are toxic.The bright
colors of the frog warn the color-vision
predators , such as birds. Dying poison dart
frogs place place the colors in a pattern on a
dark background warns the mammal
predators that see in black and white.
9. Members of at least four genera of the frog
family are known as ” poison dart frogs “ or “
poison arrow frogs “ . Skin secretions from
some of the most poisonous out of the frog
family are used by native Indians to tip the
darts of their blowpipes for hunting . If the
toxins enter somebody or something's
bloodstream , they act on the nervous system
, blocking transmission and causing rapid
paralysis.
10. Scientists are presently studying these
secretions , hoping to develop anesthetics ,
muscle relaxants and heart stimulations for
medical use.
11. Many of the genera Dendrobates are listed as
vulnerable in the wild , but is not vulnerable
or endangered .
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22. Poison dart frogs only have one predator :
snakes [liophis leimadephis enipephelus].The
snake is resistant to the frog’s poison , but
not immune .
