 Scientific Name: Dendrobates reticulata Category: Animal Primary Layer: Forest Floor Fun Facts: - Its skin produces some of the strongest natural poison in the world, which indigenous or native people often use for hunting purposes.
- When coated in the poison, a dart is capable of killing an animal in minutes and being reused for over a year.
- Some of the toxins these frogs produce is so powerful that a person can be injured by merely touching the frog.
- The adult frogs live primarily on the ground; however, when their eggs hatch the tadpole are transported on the back of a parent to a suitable puddle, sometimes in the forest canpy, to mature.
- Some poison arrow frogs can live for 15 years.
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