Poison Dart Frog is a type of frog that belongs to the family Dendrobatidae, this type of frog has a very striking skin color such as red, purple, blue, green, yellow and many other colors. Frogs originating from central and southern America are mostly have a striking red color, with the aim of warning potential predators to avoid getting closer.
The beautiful color makes people who see it so want to keep it as an ornamental animal, other than that the size of these frogs is very small sometimes ukuranya less than 1.5 cm and yet also live up to the size of 6 cm.
It is not without reason that these types of frogs have bright and distinctive skin tones, other frogs usually have a natural-adjusted skin color where they live so they can hide or disguise well so that predator predators will have difficulty in hunting.
The striking color of this frog is aimed at warning the predators not to get closer, because around their beautiful skin there is enough toxic mucus. Even the level of efficacy of toxins can be seen from the skin color that they have.
The toxins that exist in this frog will work immediately when this frog is touched, quite dangerous poison possessed this frog. The poison can disrupt the cessation of heartbeat in large animals that touch it.
Therefore, Native American tribes often use the poison of this type of frog to hunt, the poison present in the mucus of this frog is applied to the end of the arrow which they will use for hunting. Usually these frog poison are enough to paralyze the monkeys and some of their other game animals. Of course they do not carelessly hold this frog.
The presence of toxins in this frog does not mean any predator can not eat it, there is only 1 predator that can eat this frog because it has developed the ability of his thighs on this poison frog, the predator is the serpent Leimadophis Epinephelus.
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