Creature Feature Encyclopedia:  Amphibia
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Poison Arrow Frog 
 Dendrobates pumilio 
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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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