The Most Poisonous Frog

Do you know the most poisonous frog in the world? It is The Golden poison dart frog.This animal measure around 47mm and one of the largest frogs of the Dendrobatidae family.The adults of this frog species are uniformly golden or pale metallic green in colour.It is one of the 3 species of poison dart frogs which are definitely known to be used for dart poisoning by the Embera Indians of Colombia.One frog may contain up to 1900 micrograms of toxins.These frogs should be considered as potentially dangerous to human if improperly handled even a small fraction of the poison from one of the frogs would be lethal to man if gotten into the bloodstream through an open wound.The skin secretions are also irritating to porous skin and poisonous if ingested.In their reproduction behaviour the golden poison dart frogs are similar to other poison dart frogs.The female lays her eggs on the ground.After the eggs get fertilized the male and the female will both look after them until they hatch.