Blue Poison Dart Frog

    Blue Poison Dart Frog

      The Blue Poison Dart Frog was discovered in 1968. It weighs about 8 grams and live up to 4 to 6 years in the wild and 10 years in captivity. Its skin color is a warning to predators around it. It has alkaloid poison covering its entire body. This poison can paralyze  and even kill its predators. The insects it eats allows it to have the poison to protect itself. Its only predator is the snake leimadphis epinephdus. This snake developed a kind of resistance to the frogs toxin. Indigenous people of Brazil use the poison to coat there arrows which can last up to two years.