AnckSuNamun said:

touch it and you die!

AnckSuNamun said:

Me too! It would be neat to have a blue frog to show off to people you know. I just found this on the internet about them, it turns out that they're poisonous:

Blue poison dart frog
Dendrobates azureus



Species Information
Exhibit Name and Location
Tropical Rain Forest Exhibit – Main Aquarium, Level 5
Description of Animal

These little frogs are easily recognized by their blue color, which is generally darker on the limbs and belly and overlaid with black spots or patches, especially on the head and back.

As their name implies, poison dart frogs can release toxins from the skin that are distasteful and potentially lethal to would-be predators. Three very toxic species of poison dart frogs from Colombia and South America are utilized by Indians to poison the tips of blowgun darts.

Blue poison dart frogs are active during the day and can be found hiding among boulders and debris near streams; however, they lack toe webbing and are poor swimmers, so they are never found in the water.

Aquarist's Note

This colorful frog was not even discovered until 1968!

Several years ago, curator Jack Cover and an Aquarium team traveled to South America to research this frog and were permitted to bring back a few specimens.

Those specimens became the foundation for a nationally renowned breeding program.

The program's goal is to maintain a healthy, self-sustaining captive population and eliminate the need to collect frogs from the wild. As a result, the National Aquarium in Baltimore supplies blue poison dart frogs to zoos and aquariums across the country.

Ultimately, this program could provide frogs for reintroduction should the wild population ever become extinct.

Diet

In the wild, the frog's diet is the source of its skin toxins. A constant forager, this frog is always searching for ants, termites, tiny beetles, and any other small insect it may find among the leaf litter.

Such foods are difficult to provide in captivity.

Specimens born at the aquarium are fed fruit flies and baby crickets powdered with a vitamin/mineral supplement. As a result, the frogs are completely non-toxic.

Size
An adult frog has a body about 2 inches (5 cm) long and weighs about 0.3 ounce (8 g).
Range

These frogs are found in a few isolated “rain forest islands” in the Sipaliwini savanna of southern Suriname.

This area was probably covered by rainforest habitat in the distant past—until the last ice age.

Then, the rain forest gave way to dry grassland in all but a few areas where surface ground water was sufficient to sustain the original vegetation.

The blue poison dart frog is a relic species living in a few isolated patches of relic rainforest habitat.

Population Status

The habitat is remote and difficult to reach, so accurate population monitoring is a challenge.

Regardless of numbers, however, this species is highly vulnerable to both human activities and natural factors such as drought due to its extremely small range and isolated populations.

Predators

Other than certain snakes and large spiders, there are few predators that can cope with the noxious poisons of adult frogs.

The tadpoles, which are not protected by any poison, often fall prey to snakes and dragonfly larvae.

ZombieKitten said:

Yeah, they are poisonous, which is unfortunate.

ZombieKitten said:

Yeah, they are poisonous, which is unfortunate.

psychodelicide said:

Yeah, It'd still be nice to have them though. They remind of the frog version of Sandy Skoglund's work.

psychodelicide said:

Yeah, It'd still be nice to have them though. They remind of the frog version of Sandy Skoglund's work.

AnckSuNamun said:

Those are neat! I like them.

psychodelicide said:

no man..theyre only poisonous if they eat that beatle their use to eating in columbia.if they are bread elsewhere then no.

psychodelicide said:

Yeah, It'd still be nice to have them though. They remind of the frog version of Sandy Skoglund's work.

AnckSuNamun said:

that is quite demented actually lol..

psychodelicide said:

http://www.peacefrogs.com/
They still make shirts, but I rarely see people wearing them anymore. Those stickers used to be really popular in the mid 90's.


Ok....I kinda like this one.

AnckSuNamun said:

That is cool, like a Grateful Dead kinda frog or something.

psychodelicide said:

I like anything with a skeleton.

When I was younger, I picked up a frog and threw it on to the pavement. For some godforsaken reason, I thought it would bounce like one of those bouncey balls. Instead, it splat all over the ground. I still have a guilt trip over that whole incident. LOL.

When I was younger, I picked up a frog and threw it on to the pavement. For some godforsaken reason, I thought it would bounce like one of those bouncey balls. Instead, it splat all over the ground. I still have a guilt trip over that whole incident. LOL.

Tom said:

Oh my god, something similar happened to my brother when we were younger. We found a tiny sky blue speckled egg on the ground. Apparently it had fallen out of a nest, but at the time he didn't know. For some reason he thought it was one of those Cadbury mini eggs.

My cousin and I both were trying to tell him that we thought it was real, but nooo, he wouldn't listen. Well, he squeezed it and it squirted all over his face and hat. It was a real egg.

I love frogs, and people who love frogs.

When I was younger, I picked up a frog and threw it on to the pavement. For some godforsaken reason, I thought it would bounce like one of those bouncey balls. Instead, it splat all over the ground. I still have a guilt trip over that whole incident. LOL.

WillyWonka said:

Tom said:

Ouch.

Okay, I know this is kind of a copy off Anuck's turtle appreciation thread. But I figured if we had one for turtles, why not for frogs?

I love frogs, always have. I used to go down to the creek by my childhood home, catch frogs, and put them into a bucketful of water when I was little. Then I had to lug it back home. It was heavy, but I was excited to take them home to show my family. After a couple of days, I would let them go back to the creek where I got them from. A few times, I even had polywogs that I watched developed into baby frogs (pretty cool).




A blue frog! Never even knew such a thing existed. Isn't he/she pretty?




A red-eyed tree frog. I love their red eyes and feet.




Wow, is this frog even real? It looks artificial.

psychodelicide said:

You are a sweet lady.

willy do you love these kind too?

psychodelicide said:

ewwww! LOLOL.