Blue Poison Dart Frog — printable fact sheet
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Blue Poison Dart Frog
Dendrobates tinctorius 'azureus'
Almost everything the name implies is wrong. Of the roughly 200 poison frog species, only three — all in the genus Phyllobates — were ever used to poison blowdarts, and this brilliant blue frog is not one of them. Its toxicity is also not its own: the lipophilic alkaloids in its…
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- The bright blue color of the Blue Poison Dart Frog is unique among poison dart frogs and is used both as camouflage among the rainforest's blue shadows and as a warning signal to predators.
- Males call, guard the eggs, and then carry the tadpoles one at a time on their backs to separate pools of water, and they have to be separated, because the tadpoles are cannibals and will eat any sibling sharing their pool. Its skin alkaloids include pumiliotoxins, which are not merely defensive but powerful enough to be studied as cardiac and neurological tools. Wild blue morphs are found in only a few square kilometres of habitat, but they are bred in captivity by the thousand.
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