Climbing mantella
Strup v kožiJe: ŽuželkeStrupena za dotik ali zaužitje, ne ob ugrizu ali pikuThe climbing mantella is a small, brightly coloured frog that lives in the lowland rainforests of northeast Madagascar. It is a poison frog, so its skin holds chemicals that can harm predators. It is special because it is one of the few frogs whose parents care for their tadpoles by feeding them eggs.1

Kako jo prepoznaš
- Adults are 24–30 mm long and weigh 1.2–2.0 g1
- Front of the back is bright yellow or pale green1
- Arms, legs, belly and rear are black, with blue spots on the limbs1
- Eyes are completely black1
- Has discs at the tips of its fingers and toes, and the toes are webbed1
Pogosto zamenjujejo z: M. betsileo, M. viridis and M. expectata look similar but are differently coloured. They often have blue spots on the throat rather than the limbs, and they have a faint line along the upper lip, which the climbing mantella lacks.1
Moč strupa
Njena koža je strupena. Nevarno se je je dotakniti, jo polizati ali pojesti.
Kaj naredi njen strup, če se je dotakneš ali jo poješ?
This frog is poisonous rather than venomous. Its skin glands contain lipophilic alkaloids, the chemicals that make up its poison, which it gets from the arthropods it eats. Researchers have found 41 different potent alkaloids in its skin. Captive frogs lose their toxicity over time.1
Kako nevarna je za ljudi?
Nevarnost za ljudi: BlagaKot čebelji pik ali manj. Za ljudi praktično neškodljiva.Kaj naredi, ko se prestraši?
Its bright colours warn predators that its skin is toxic.1
Če se je je kdo dotaknil ali jo pojedel
- Če se je je kdo dotaknil: dobro umij roke in se ne dotikaj oči ali ust. Če jo je otrok ali hišni ljubljenček polizal ali pojedel: pokliči center za zastrupitve ali številko za klic v sili.
Vedno najprej pokliči številko za klic v sili (112, 000, 911). To so splošna navodila za prvo pomoč, ne zdravniški nasvet. Osnove prve pomoči
Ostani varen
- Nikoli se ne dotikaj divje živali, je ne lovi in je ne draži, tudi če je majhna in tudi če je videti, kot da spi ali je mrtva.
- Pusti ji prostor. Če jo srečaš, ostani miren, počasi stopi nazaj in jo pusti, da gre svojo pot.
- Če si se je dotaknil ali jo pojedel: ne drgni si oči ali ust, umij si roke in poišči zdravniško pomoč.
Ne preži nate. Njen strup je tam samo zato, da je nihče ne poje. Več o varnosti
Kako velika je?
Kako dolga je?
Koliko tehta?
približno tako dolga kot sponka za papir
tako lahka, da je na roki ne bi niti začutil
zmore 100 metrov v 100 sekundah (najhitrejši človek potrebuje 9,6)Kakšne velikosti je Climbing mantella v primerjavi s TABO?
Samo matematika v tvojem brskalniku. Nič se ne shrani in nič se nikamor ne pošlje.
Kako hitra je?
Dejstva
Its tadpoles eat only the eggs of their own species, and the parents feed them unfertilized eggs.1
Males defend territories of about 2 square metres and fight by wrestling, chasing and leaping, sometimes for over 1.5 hours.1
Female frogs choose a mate based on the quality of the male's well, not on his call.1
The climbing mantella is the only member of the Mantella genus that breeds in water-filled wells in trees, tree holes or broken bamboo stalks.1
Its chemical defence has developed in a similar way to that of the dart frogs of Dendrobatidae, although the two families are only distantly related.1
Za strokovnjake za strupe
- Znanstveno ime
- Mantella laevigata
- Skupina
- Strupene žabe, krastače in pupki
- Družina
- Mantellidae2
- Red
- Anura
- Celine
- Afrika
- Mladiči
- Usually lays only one large egg, 3–3.5 mm across, at the side of a water-filled well or above the water line. The parents feed tadpoles unfertilized eggs.1
- Kako ji gre v naravi
- Least Concern (IUCN Red List, 2016), though its population is suspected to be decreasing1
- Nevarnost za ljudi
- 1 / 5: Blaga3
Od kod so dejstva
- Climbing mantella (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Mantella laevigata (iNaturalist): imena in razvrstitev.
- Venom Wiki: stopnja nevarnosti, tipična velikost in ocena hitrosti so naše lastne. Poglej, kako jih določimo: Kako ocenjujemo nevarnost.
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