Creature Feature Encyclopedia: Amphibia

Poison Arrow Frog

Poison Arrow Frog
Dendrobates pumilio

The Poison Arrow Frog is very small and poisonous. Native hunters dip the points of their blowgun darts in the strong poison produced by this frog. No bigger than a man's thumbnail, the poison-arrow frog is found in South American rainforests. These tiny frogs lay their eggs on leaves. When the tadpole hatches, it is carried on a parent's back to a bromeliad where it grows to be a frog.

~A Walk in the Rainforest © 1992


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