Granular poison frog
The granular poison frog is a small, bright frog that lives on the forest floor in Costa Rica and Panama. Its colours warn predators that it has poison in its skin, and it uses that poison only to defend itself. It is listed as Vulnerable because its forest home is shrinking.1

Nguvu ya sumu
Ngozi yake ina sumu. Ni hatari kumgusa, kumramba au kumla.
Ana hatari gani kwa watu?
Hatari kwa watu: InaumaInaweza kuuma sana, lakini karibu kamwe si jambo zito.Hufanya nini akiogopa?
Its bright colours act as a warning signal to predators, and it relies on its poison for self-defence.1
Mtu akimgusa au kumla
- Mtu akimgusa: nawa mikono vizuri na usiguse macho wala mdomo. Mtoto au mnyama kipenzi akimramba au kumla: piga kituo cha taarifa za sumu au namba ya dharura.
Daima piga namba ya dharura kwanza (112, 000, 911). Huu ni mwongozo wa jumla wa huduma ya kwanza, si ushauri wa kitabibu. Misingi ya huduma ya kwanza
Kaa salama
- Kamwe usimguse, kumkamata wala kumchokoza mnyama wa porini, hata akiwa mdogo, na hata akionekana amelala au amekufa.
- Mpe nafasi. Ukikutana naye, tulia, rudi nyuma polepole na umwache aende zake.
- Ukimgusa au kumla: usisugue macho wala mdomo, nawa mikono na utafute msaada wa kitabibu.
Hakuwindi wewe. Sumu yake ipo tu ili asiliwe na yeyote. Zaidi kuhusu kukaa salama
Ana ukubwa gani?
Ana urefu gani?
karibu urefu sawa na kibanio cha karatasi
angeweza kukimbia mita 100 kwa sekunde 110 (binadamu mwenye kasi zaidi anahitaji 9.6)Granular poison frog ana ukubwa gani ukilinganisha na WEWE?
Ni hesabu tu kwenye kivinjari chako. Hakuna kinachohifadhiwa wala kutumwa popote.
Ana kasi gani?
Ukweli
After the eggs hatch, the female keeps feeding her tadpoles by laying unfertilised eggs in the water pools where they live.1
The water-filled spaces where the tadpoles grow hold, on average, only about 2.4 ml of water.1
Its warning signals are more sound-based than visual, meaning the calls matter more than the colours in some situations.1
Males spend most of their time and energy defending their calling site, and a rival that comes too close can start a fight.1
Some frogs near Quepos, Costa Rica, have olive green skin instead of the usual orange.1
Kwa wataalamu wa sumu
- Jina la kisayansi
- Oophaga granulifera
- Kundi
- Vyura wa sumu, chura na mijusi-maji
- Familia
- Dendrobatidae2
- Mpangilio
- Anura
- Mabara
- Amerika Kaskazini
- Watoto
- The female lays groups of three or four eggs in curled dead leaves, under stones, in twig forks or in leaf axils just above the ground, and the male guards and moistens them.1
- Hali yake porini
- Vulnerable1
- Hatari kwa watu
- 2 / 5: Inauma3
Ukweli unatoka wapi
- Granular poison frog (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Oophaga granulifera (iNaturalist): majina na uainishaji.
- Venom Wiki: kiwango cha hatari, ukubwa wa kawaida na makadirio ya kasi ni yetu wenyewe. Ona jinsi tunavyovipata: Jinsi tunavyopima hatari.
Kila ukweli kwenye ukurasa huu una namba inayoonyesha chanzo chake. Kama tumekosea kitu, samahani, sisi ni wapenzi wa wanyama, si jarida la kisayansi. Tuambie kupitia [email protected] nasi tutarekebisha.
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