https://wildlife.blog/tags/amphibian/ Recent content in Amphibian on Wildlife.blog Hugo en-us https://wildlife.blog/posts/strawberry-poison-dart-frog-isla-bastimentos/ https://wildlife.blog/posts/strawberry-poison-dart-frog-isla-bastimentos/ <p>📍 Isla Bastimentos, Bocas del Toro</p> <hr> <p><strong>Strawberry Poison-dart Frog</strong> <em>(Oophaga pumilio)</em></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>