The brilliance of the animal’s coloration is directly proportional to its poisonous properties. One frog carries enough poison to kill 10 men. This frog is of great interest to indigenous people.
POISON DART FROG SKIN
Batrachotoxin, an alkaloid so fast that within moments of skin to skin (or mouth) exposure the predator has died of a heart-attack. This brilliantly colored creature stores poison in glands under its skin ready to be ejected to the surface when danger threatens. This isn't the case with the Colombian golden poison frog, which is the most deadly of all dart frog species. Strangely enough, some species are not considered particularly useful by the indigenous peoples, despite common names such as Anthony’s poison dart frog. Columbian Golden Poison Dart Frog - The Deadliest The result is instant paralysis for any predator smaller than an jaguar. This compound works to instantly interfere with the electrical impulses traveling between ganglia (the ends of nerve cells). Poison dart frogs exude compounds onto their skin which are derived solely from their diets. In fact, in captivity, you can’t even get them to be poisonous! Further, if you were to capture a fairly lethal frog in the wild, bring it home with you and feed it crickets and wingless fruit flies for a few months, this animal will no longer be poisonous either.
Weird biological science has demonstrated over and over that there is nothing inherently poisonous about any member of various dart frog species.
Nothing could be more true about the poison dart frog. “You are what you eat” is the common aphorism. We also love seeing pics, so if you don't have any questions, post a picture anyway for us to admire! Poison Dart Frog Basics Are they Really Poisonous? Our in-house zoologist can answer your questions on habitats, sanitation, feeding, and proper poison dart frog care. Post your questions on our Poison Dart Frog forum.
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