Harlequin poison frog
Awuduro wɔ ne honam muƆdi: MmoawaNe ho yɛ awuduro, onni bɔreThe harlequin poison frog is a small, brightly marked frog that lives on the forest floor of western Colombia. Its skin carries strong toxins, so it is one of the poison dart frogs that should never be handled. It is now critically endangered because its rainforest home is being destroyed.1

Sɛdeɛ wobɛhunu no
- Background colour ranges from light to dark brown.1
- Usually has a vivid, bright spot on its back.1
- Small, with an average snout-to-vent length of about 3.3 cm.1
- Active on the forest floor, feeding on the ground after sunrise and hiding under leaf litter or on fallen logs by 16:00.1
Wɔtaa fa no sɛ: Some frogs that were once classed as this species were separated into new species in 2018: Oophaga anchicayensis, Oophaga andresi and Oophaga solanensis.1
Awuduro ahoɔden
Ne honam yɛ awuduro. Ɛyɛ asiane sɛ wode wo nsa bɛka, wobɛtaforɔ anaa wobɛdi.
Ne ho awuduro yɛ dɛn?
The frog produces histrionicotoxins, which are cardiotoxins, meaning they affect the heart. These compounds act as potent blockers of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, the sites that receive nerve signals at muscle and nerve junctions. They also affect sodium and potassium channels, though much less strongly.1
Ne asiane ma nnipa te sɛn?
Asiane ma nnipa: Ɛyɛ denSɛ obi de ne nsa ka no anaa ɔdi no a, kɔ dɔkota nkyɛn. Ɛntaa nkum obi koraa.The frog's toxins can be dangerous. Wild-caught frogs may be toxic and dangerous to handle, and they often have a much higher fatality rate in captivity.1
Sɛ obi de ne nsa ka anaa ɔdi a
- Sɛ obi de ne nsa aka bi a: hohoro ne nsa yie na mfa nsa nka ani anaa ano. Sɛ abofra anaa fie aboa bi taforɔɔ bi anaa ɔdii bi a: frɛ awuduro ho mmoa adwumayɛbea (poison centre) anaa wo ahohiahia nɔma.
Di kan frɛ wo ahohiahia nɔma (112, 000, 911). Yei yɛ mmoa a ɛdi kan ho akwankyerɛ, ɛnyɛ dɔkota afotuo. Mmoa a ɛdi kan ho nsɛm titiriw
Hwɛ wo ho so
- Mfa wo nsa nka wiram aboa biara, nkyere no na mfa no nni agorɔ, sɛ ɔyɛ ketewa mpo, na sɛ ɛte sɛ ɔrededa anaa wawu mpo a.
- Ma no kwan. Sɛ wohyia baako a, ma wo bo nnwo, san w'akyi brɛoo na ma ɔnkɔ ne kwan.
- Sɛ wode wo nsa kaa no anaa wodii a: mfa wo nsa ntwitwi w'ani anaa w'ano, hohoro wo nsa na hwehwɛ dɔkota mmoa.
Ɛnhwehwɛ wo sɛ ɛbɛpira wo. Ne ho awuduro no wɔ hɔ sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a biribiara renni no. Nsɛm pii fa ahobammɔ ho
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ɛbɛtumi atu mita 100 wɔ anibu 97 mu (onipa a ɔwɔ ntɛm sen biara hia 9.6)Harlequin poison frog kɛseɛ te sɛn sɛ wode toto WO ho a?
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The tadpoles cannot feed on their own. They are obligate egg-feeders and will starve without the unfertilised eggs their mother provides.1
A parent carries the tadpoles to tiny water pools, often found in the axil of a bromeliad plant, where they develop.1
Histrionicotoxins are hard to make in a lab. Synthesising them has been the subject of many different attempts.1
Harlequin poison frogs are among the most difficult poison dart frogs to raise in captivity.1
Adults are active on the ground during the day and retreat to refuge by mid-afternoon.1
Ma bɔre ho animdefoɔ
- Nyansahu din
- Oophaga histrionica
- Kuo
- Apɔtorɔwa a wɔn ho yɛ awuduro, apɔtorɔ ne newt
- Abusua
- Dendrobatidae2
- Nhyehyɛeɛ (Order)
- Anura
- Asaase akɛseɛ
- Amerika Anaafoɔ
- Mmofra nketewa
- The female lays eggs among leaf litter. A parent carries the newly hatched tadpoles to a small water pool, often in a bromeliad, and the mother later lays unfertilised eggs for the tadpoles to eat.1
- Sɛdeɛ ɔte wɔ kwaem
- Critically Endangered1
- Asiane ma nnipa
- 3 / 5: Ɛyɛ den3
Baabi a nsɛm no fi
- Harlequin poison frog (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Oophaga histrionica (iNaturalist): din ne nkyekyɛmu.
- Venom Wiki: asiane gyinabea, kɛseɛ a ɛtaa yɛ ne ntɛm susuo no yɛ yɛn ankasa deɛ. Hwɛ sɛdeɛ yɛbu no: Sɛdeɛ yɛkyerɛ asiane gyinabea.
Nsɛm biara a ɛwɔ kratafa yi so wɔ nɔma a ɛkyerɛ ne fibea. Sɛ yɛfom biribi a, kafra, yɛyɛ mmoa ho akɔnnɔfoɔ, ɛnyɛ nyansahu nwoma. Ka kyerɛ yɛn wɔ [email protected] na yɛbɛsiesie.
