https://wildlife.blog/tags/amphibians/Recent content in Amphibians on Wildlife.blogHugoen-ushttps://wildlife.blog/posts/red-poison-dart-frog-bocas-del-toro-isla-bastiment/https://wildlife.blog/posts/red-poison-dart-frog-bocas-del-toro-isla-bastiment/<p><strong>Strawberry Poison-dart Frog</strong> <em>(Oophaga pumilio)</em></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>