Blue+and+Yellow+Poison+Dart+Frog


 * __Blue and Yellow Poison Dart Frog__**


 * **__Food:__ //In the wild they eat spiders, ants, and termites. In the zoo they eat small crickets and fruit flies.//**
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 * **__Habitat:__Poison Dart Frogs live in the rain forests of Central and South America and on a few Hawiian island. These frogs live in humid envirments. There found in heavy vines, one or two meters above the ground.They can also be found in trees, under leaves, logs, rocks on the jungle floor.Adults are mostly found next to streams and ponds so the frogs can care for their tadpoles.**
 * **__Appearance:__ As the name suggests, the frogs are blue and yellow with two yellow stripes that run down there backs. There connected by bands, creating two or three blue spots. There colors are warnings to predators that they are poisonous. Poison dart frogs can be bright yellow, flashy gold, rich copper, blood red, brilliant green, and jet black.**
 * **__Reproduction:__The female deposits up to 40 eggs in leaves. It takes 2 weeks for the eggs to hatch and 3 months for them to metamorphose into small frogs. Once tadpoles hatch they swim onto the males back. There attached by mucus on the frogs back.The male carries the tadpoles to a small puddle/pond to keep away from predators.**
 * ======**__Size:__They are 1.5 to 7 CM long.They weigh less than 1 once**======
 * **__Adaptations:__They have long sticky tongues to capture their prey.Their skin is filled with their poison.They have exellent sight and hearing. Their toes have suction cup pads to help them climb.**




 * **__Extinction:__Poison dart frogs are endangered because of habitat destuction and pollution.When a animal is endangered is when there is a little amount of that animal left. Extinction is when there is no more of that animal.**




 * **__Coexisting:__They are bold and aggresive. Also very territorial. There also fearless because of there super deadly poison.**




 * __**Fun Facts:**__**Another name for the poison dart frog is the poison arrow frog because tribes used their poison on their arrows.The food the frogs eat gives them their poison. One frog can kill one hundered humans. The****﻿frogs have 200 micrograms of poison and it takes 2 micrograms of poison to kill a human. Poison darts can live from 10 to 15 years in captivity. Poison dart frogs prey is a snake and fish eat tadpoles. They have enough poison to kill 20,000 mice. A group frogs is somtimes called a army.Theres about 170 species of poison dart frogs.**



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