Baron's mantella
Baron's mantella is a small, brightly coloured frog that lives only on the island of Madagascar. Its skin contains toxic chemicals that make it harmful to predators, and its bright colours warn them to stay away.1

Co renconuscher el
- Has a light line above the eyes, called a rostral line.1
- Hind limbs are orange with irregular black stripes, giving a tiger-like pattern.1
- Front limbs range from light green to bright orange or yellow, with a large rounded flank blotch.1
- Adults are 2.4 to 3.2 cm long, and females are slightly larger than males.1
- Males call during the day, and it is an active hunter in daylight.1
Savens confundì cun: It is often confused with the painted mantella (Mantella madagascariensis), which has a similar look. The painted mantella has a sky-blue, horseshoe-shaped marking on its throat. Baron's mantella does not have the flashmarks on its lower hind limbs.1
Forza tossica
Sia pel è tossica. Igl è privlus d'al tutgar, d'al litgar u d'al mangiar.
Tge fa sia substanza tossica?
It does not inject venom. Its skin contains alkaloids, which are toxic chemicals it gets from eating mites. These make it harmful to predators that eat it, and they can cause sickness. The strength of the toxin varies over time and by location, and frogs in remote populations may be more potent.1
Quant privlus è el per umans?
Privel per umans: LevSco ina piztgada d'avieul u main. Practicamain nunprivlus per umans.Its toxicity can vary, and careless handling is discouraged.1
Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?
Its bright colours warn predators that eating it could be dangerous and cause sickness.1
Sch'insatgi l'ha tutgà u mangià
- Sch'insatgi ha tutgà in tal animal: lava bain ils mauns e na tutga betg ils egls u la bucca. Sch'in uffant u in animal da chasa ha litgà u mangià in tal animal: clama il center toxicologic u tes numer d'urgenza.
Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid
Resta en segirezza
- Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
- Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
- Sche ti l'has tutgà u mangià: na sfruscha betg ils egls u la bucca, lava ils mauns e tschertga agid medicinal.
El n'ha betg quai sin tai. Ses tissi è mo là, per che nagin na al mangia. Dapli davart la segirezza
Quant grond è el?
Quant lung è el?
var uschè lung sco in clip da palpiri
pudess currer 100 meters en 100 secundas (l'uman il pli svelt dovra 9,6)Quant grond è Baron's mantella cumpareglià cun TAI?
Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn memorisà u tramess.
Quant svelt è el?
Fatgs
Its toxicity comes from the mites it eats, so its poison depends on its diet.1
Mantella frogs look like poison dart frogs from Latin America, but they are only distant relatives. The likeness is an example of convergent evolution.1
Unlike most frogs, which are active at night, it hunts during the day.1
Its bright colours and its toxins are a warning system, a pattern called aposematism.1
Its family arrived on Madagascar an estimated 76 to 87 million years ago.1
It is one of the largest species in the Mantella genus, with only some Mantella viridis individuals reaching a similar size.1
Destructur da mits
Mit: Baron's mantella is the same as the painted mantella, and is sometimes called a painted mantella.
Vardad: The two are distinct species. They look alike, but the painted mantella has a sky-blue throat marking that Baron's mantella lacks.1
Per experts da tissi
- Num scientific
- Mantella baroni
- Gruppa
- Raunas tossicas, rospis e salamandras d'aua
- Famiglia
- Mantellidae2
- Urden
- Anura
- Continents
- Africa
- Poppins
- Females can lay up to 130 eggs in a single clutch, usually near water. Rain washes the tadpoles into the water.1
- Co ch'i va ad el en la natira
- Least Concern (IUCN, 2016). It appears in CITES Appendix II.1
- Privel per umans
- 1 / 5: Lev3
Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs
- Mantella baroni (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Mantella baroni (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
- Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.
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