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Descriptions
This little frog is very small measuring 20 to 25 millimeters long, it is bright red color and its limbs are usually are partially or totally blue, existing minimum variations in the pattern. You can find this kind of frogs on the floor of humid forests under 900 meters on the level of the sea, is of diurnal habits.
And after attracting a mate with his calls, the male guides her to the site that it he chose for the eggs, he deposits sperm on leaf litter and at the same spot she lays her eggs usually less than 15 to fertilize them.
When the tadpoles are born the adult frogs take them or carry them to puddles of water to develop. Sometimes the adults even climb up trees to deposit their larvae in the rainwater trapped in bromeliad plants living on tree branches. The tadpoles during their period use their mounts as suckers to stick to the back of their parents during the journey, to avoid to fall down.
The frogs of these species dendrobates has the poison in the skin, and it is only toxic if it enters in the blood fluid, the toxin that has this species in any case would not be fatal for a normal human.
Feeding
They usually feed on small insects like ants, flies, etc. This frogs lose their poison when they are in captivity, thinks that by the lack of present alkaloids in the insects that feed in their natural means.
Distribution
From Nicaragua to northern Panama under 900 meters on the level of the sea.
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