Poison Frog

Today I would like to talk about the poison frog. This frog comes in many colors that have one thing in common, they mean, "I'm dangerous! I taste so bad I could kill you!" The poison frog lives in rainforests in Central and South America. It is poisonous due to the ants and beetles it eats. The ants and beetles eat a toxic plant. It weighs 2 grams and is 6 centimeters long, depending on species. Most frogs don't care for their little ones. This frog does. In their mating season, you hear trills and trills and more trills. Those are the calls of boy frogs calling for girls. If the girl wants to be his mate, she will lay millions of eggs on a plant leaf. Our Pop will fertilize the eggs and watch them for 2 weeks. When Pop's eggs hatch, the tadpoles go onto his back. Pop then takes them to a small pool of water nearby. There, they eat algae and live happily for a while. The tadpoles won't grow for a week, but it will take about 3 months for them to turn into froglets. Pop guards them for these three months, and he does his absolute best to keep them from any harm at all. Sources of info. Wikipedia Bing Ranger Rick magazine