Scientific Name: Dendrobatis Leucomelas

Spanish Name: Ranas de la Flecha del Veneno

Size: Most are half an inch in length

Life span: about eleven and a half years

Predators: 
  The poison protects the poison arrow frogs from most predators except the snake Lemaidophis Epinephelus. The cat eyed snake eats the frog eggs.
 
 

Adaptations:

• Their skin secrets poison which helps to not be eaten.
• They are very small and not easy to spot and stay mostly on the jungle floor.
• They have very bright colors that warn the other animals that they are not fit to eat.

• The father stays with the baby frogs until they are ready to take care of themselves.
• has special skin that releases poison.
• females are bigger and thicker than males.
• These frogs are not shy at all.
• They lay eggs in water and cover them with foam that gives the eggs oxygen and nutrients. 
• Mucus keeps their skin sticky and moist.
• They live in the jungle floor among the leaves.

 Bibliography:  (go to MLA site)

Cyber Zoo Website. Retrieved Mar. 26, 2003, http://lsb.syr.edu/projects/cyberzoo/poisonarrowfrog.html

Central Pets. Retrieved Mar. 26, 2003, http://www.centralpets.com/index.shtml

Enchanted Learning. Retrieved Mar. 26, 2003,
                         http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/amphibians/Poisonfrogstrawbprintout.shtml 

Collins, Mark, and David Attenborough. The Last Rainforests. New York: Oxford University Press , 1990.

 The Golden Frog Website. Retrieved Mar. 26, 2003,
                               http://www.goldenfrog.org/goldenfrog/Photos/poison-arrow-frog.JPG

Research By: Arianna P. Manuel A.