Photo from Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAs we have seen with many other animals in the past the bright colours of the Poison Dart Frog act as a warning to other animals.\u00a0 Basically they are saying “Whoa there predator!\u00a0 If you eat me, you will most likely die so you need to ask yourself, do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?” These frogs are not bluffing with their colours either as the Poison Dart Frog is known to be among the most toxic animals on Earth.\u00a0 Just to give you an illustration of how poisonous they are.\u00a0 One tiny little Golden Poison Dart Frog has enough poison to kill about 20 000 mice.\u00a0 That is a lot of mice!\u00a0 If that doesn’t scare you, that same 5 cm long frog has enough poison to kill about 10 adult humans.\u00a0 This is why I always recommend being the 11th person in line as your tour group is walking through the Rain-forest.\u00a0 Researchers believe that the Poison Dart Frog get their toxic nature from the insects they eat such as ants, termites and beetles.\u00a0 This theory came about since Poison Dart Frogs in captivity, which are isolated from their natural environment never develop the toxins as wild frogs do. I still wouldn’t take the chance of cuddling a captive Poison Dart Frog but maybe I am just a big scaredy cat.<\/p>\n
Poison Dart Frog Fast Fact – <\/strong>Believe it or not this family of highly toxic frogs actually does have a natural predator.\u00a0 A snaked called Leimadophis epinephelus<\/em> has developed a resistance to their poison and will actually feed on the Poison Dart Frog.\u00a0 I guess that particular snake was feeling lucky, punk!<\/p>\nI hope all of you enjoyed today’s Wild Fact and I will see you back here tomorrow for the final fact of the week. <\/em><\/p>\n
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