📍 Isla Bastimentos, Bocas del Toro
Strawberry Poison-dart Frog (Oophaga pumilio)
Barely two centimeters 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 color forms this species takes across the Bocas del Toro archipelago — making the islands a living laboratory for studying rapid color evolution.