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Dyeing Poison Dart Frog
Dendrobates tinctorius
The dyeing poison dart frog is not born poisonous, and a captive-bred one never becomes so. Its toxins are stolen: it takes alkaloids from the mites, ants and other small arthropods it eats in the wild, sequesters them in its skin, and loses the ability altogether on a captive d…
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- Despite being deadly in the wild, Dyeing Poison Dart Frogs raised in captivity are completely harmless because they do not ingest the toxic insects that create their skin toxins.
- These frogs are not born toxic — they build their poison from the mites and ants they eat, so captive-bred ones are harmless. Their bright colours are a warning billboard, not camouflage. Parents carry tadpoles up trees one at a time, on their backs, to pools trapped inside bromeliads. Only a handful of poison frog species were ever actually used to poison darts — and this is not one of them.
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