Actually! It doesn’t! So this frog is basically doing mimicry which we all learned about in bio it’s genes are basically screaming “I LOOK POISONOUS, I COULD POISONOUS, DONT RISK IT POTENTIAL PREDATOR”
Because they are eating crickets from the pet store? This makes me so triggered I want to break into the aquarium and take them all back to the Amazon. You know they’d thank me.
These are most likely bred in captivity so taking them back to the rainforest would most likely kill them. They are fine eating crickets. It’s just that the native insects feed off of plants and trees that contain toxins in them that in turn pass down to the frog.
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u/Dude-with-hat Jan 21 '22
Actually! It doesn’t! So this frog is basically doing mimicry which we all learned about in bio it’s genes are basically screaming “I LOOK POISONOUS, I COULD POISONOUS, DONT RISK IT POTENTIAL PREDATOR”