Strawberry Poison-dart Frog (Oophaga pumilio)
Barely two centimetres long but impossible to miss — this jewel-toned frog wears its toxicity on its skin, sequestering alkaloid poisons from the ants and mites it eats to become one of the most unpalatable animals in the Neotropics.
The Bastimentos red morph, with its vivid scarlet body and black spots, is one of dozens of strikingly different colour forms this species takes across the Bocas del Toro archipelago — making the islands a living laboratory for studying rapid colour evolution.