strawberry poison frog

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Examine up close minute poison-arrow frogs Dendrobates auratus and D. pumilio on leaves

strawberry poison frog

amphibian

Also known as: Dendrobates pumilio

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Breeding behaviour
The small Central American Dendrobates pumilio calls from the leaves of herbaceous plants. Intrusion into a territory of one calling male by another results in a wrestling match that terminates only after one male has been thrown off the leaf. Males of the Central American dendrobatid Colostethus inguinalis have…
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The small Central American Dendrobates pumilio calls from the leaves of herbaceous plants. Intrusion into a territory of one calling male by another results in a wrestling match that terminates only after one male has been thrown off the leaf. Males of the Central American dendrobatid Colostethus inguinalis have…
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Life in a Bromeliad Pool
…female strawberry poison frog (Dendrobates pumilio; see arrow-poison frog) uses a different strategy to protect her young. She transports one or two newly hatched tadpoles from the leaves on which her eggs are laid to a bromeliad pool, which serves as a nursery. She then exhibits parental care by…
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…female strawberry poison frog (Dendrobates pumilio; see arrow-poison frog) uses a different strategy to protect her young. She transports one or two newly hatched tadpoles from the leaves on which her eggs are laid to a bromeliad pool, which serves as a nursery. She then exhibits parental care by…
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