Harlequin poison frog
Ushevu esikhumbeni sasoSidla: IzinambuzaneSinoshevu, asinabo ubuthi bokuluma noma bokuhlabaThe 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

Indlela yokusibona
- 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
Ivamise ukudidaniswa ne: Some frogs that were once classed as this species were separated into new species in 2018: Oophaga anchicayensis, Oophaga andresi and Oophaga solanensis.1
Amandla oshevu
Isikhumba saso sinoshevu. Kuyingozi ukusithinta, ukusikhotha noma ukusidla.
Ushevu waso wenzani?
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
Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?
Ingozi ebantwini: Kubi kakhuluUma umuntu esithinta noma esidla, yana kudokotela. Ukufa kuyivelakancane kakhulu.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
Uma umuntu esithintile noma esidlile
- Uma umuntu esithintile: geza izandla kahle futhi ungathinti amehlo noma umlomo. Uma ingane noma isilwane sasekhaya sisikhothile noma sisidlile: shayela isikhungo soshevu noma inombolo yezimo eziphuthumayo.
Njalo shayela kuqala inombolo yezimo eziphuthumayo (112, 000, 911). Lokhu kuyiseluleko sosizo lokuqala esijwayelekile, akusona iseluleko sezokwelapha. Izisekelo zosizo lokuqala
Hlala uphephile
- Ungalokothi uthinte, ubambe noma ugcone isilwane sasendle, ngisho noma sincane, futhi ngisho noma sibukeka silele noma sifile.
- Sinike isikhala. Uma uhlangana naso, hlala uzolile, uhlehle kancane bese usiyeka sihambe ngendlela yaso.
- Uma usithintile noma usidlile: ungahlikihli amehlo noma umlomo wakho, geza izandla zakho futhi uthole usizo lwezokwelapha.
Asikuzingeli wena. Ushevu waso ukhona nje ukuze kungabikho okusidlayo. Okwengeziwe mayelana nokuhlala uphephile
Sikhulu kangakanani?
Side kangakanani?
side cishe njengesibophi sephepha
singahamba amamitha ali-100 ngemizuzwana engu-97 (umuntu oshesha kunabo bonke udinga engu-9,6)Harlequin poison frog mkhulu kangakanani uma uqhathanisa NAWE?
Yizibalo nje kusiphequluli sakho. Akukho okulondolozwayo noma okuthunyelwa ndawo.
Sishesha kangakanani?
Amaqiniso
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
Okongoti bobuthi
- Igama lesayensi
- Oophaga histrionica
- Iqembu
- Amaxoxo anoshevu, amaxoxo e-toad nama-newt
- Umndeni
- Dendrobatidae2
- Ukuhleleka
- Anura
- Amazwekazi
- INingizimu Melika
- Izinsana
- 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
- Simo saso endle
- Critically Endangered1
- Ingozi ebantwini
- 3 / 5: Kubi kakhulu3
Lapho amaqiniso evela khona
- Harlequin poison frog (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Oophaga histrionica (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa ngezigaba.
- Venom Wiki: izinga lengozi, usayizi ojwayelekile nesiqagela sejubane kungokwethu. Bona ukuthi sikubala kanjani: Indlela esilinganisa ngayo ingozi.
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