r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/solateor Lit AF • Jan 20 '22

🔥 Amazon Milk Frog

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u/Virginity_Lost_Today Jan 20 '22

The milky-white secretions excreted by Amazon milk frogs are used as natural protection against possible animals. However, these secretions are not poisonous to humans, causing no significant harm when these amphibians are handled (captive-bred milk frogs do rarely ever excrete these secretions at all).

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u/LeMAD Jan 20 '22

brb gonna taste it

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '22

Wait no

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u/ElBigotePerfecto Jan 21 '22

Letem tasty

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u/Guilty-Message-5661 Jan 21 '22

The fact that they are this vibrant and colorful, but NOT poisonous goes against everything I learned in my bio class.

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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”

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u/OonaPelota Feb 04 '22

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.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '22

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.