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Dyeing Dart Frogs have a toxic substance that their skin is able to secrete. Although they secrete it they don't actually make the toxin. The insects that they eat have the toxins in them so they gain the poison through what they eat. They are not born with the toxins. Instead, they gain them as they grow older. They usually use this substance when predators threaten them. [[http://www.santabarbarazoo.org/showAnimals.asp?id=203]] | Dyeing Dart Frogs have a toxic substance that their skin is able to secrete. Although they secrete it they don't actually make the toxin. The insects that they eat have the toxins in them so they gain the poison through what they eat. They are not born with the toxins. Instead, they gain them as they grow older. They usually use this substance when predators threaten them. [[http://www.santabarbarazoo.org/showAnimals.asp?id=203]] | ||
== | ==Origin of the Name== | ||
The Dyeing Dart Frog was the first poisonous [[frog]] known to the Europeans. The name comes from an old story that started in Europe. There were legends that members of different tribes in the Amazon used various mixtures to change the green feathers of a parrot into red feathers. | The Dyeing Dart Frog was the first poisonous [[frog]] known to the Europeans. The name comes from an old story that started in Europe. There were legends that members of different tribes in the Amazon used various mixtures to change the green feathers of a parrot into red feathers. According to the legends frog skin and blood were mixed together and rubbed on an area of the parrot where they wanted to be changed. The parrot had to be young and its original green feathers had to be plucked. When the new feathers grew in, they would be red and sometimes yellow. Because it looked like they had been dyed, they called the frog that they got the skin from the Dyeing Dart Frog.[[http://www.rosamondgiffordzoo.org/animals_gallery.asp?id=66]] | ||
Dyeing | Dyeing Poison Dart Frogs are also known as Dyeing Poison Arrow Frogs. They got another part of the name from the natives. The native hunters would use the poison from the backs of the [[frogs]] on the tips of their arrows or darts. That is why they were referred to as Poison Dart Frogs and Poison Arrow Frogs. [[http://www.rosamondgiffordzoo.org/animals_gallery.asp?id=66 ]] | ||
== Gallery == | == Gallery == | ||
