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Poison Frogs  ﻿The animals in the Dendrobatidae family have brightly colored skin. They are about an inch in length. Some examples of animals from this family are the Bumblebee frog, the Blue poison dart frog and the Golden poison frog. The frog shown in the picture is a //Strawberry// frog.

Most frogs move by hopping with their legs. They leap using their back legs. Poison frogs eat spiders, ants, termites and other small insects. They catch their prey by shooting out their long tongue that is very sticky. Three ways that a poison frog adapts to the environment are that they are really small so that not many animals will find them, the colors of their skin act as a warning of their poison, and they use their vocals to find a mate. It takes a poison frog around a year to mature into an adult. It starts out as a tadpole and grows into a frog. They are about the size of an adult's thumbnail. It weighs from 3- 6 grams. It can lay 6- 10 eggs at a time. It takes about the baby around two weeks to gestate. The poison frog is classified by,
 * Kingdom- // Animalia //
 * Phylum- //Chordata//
 * Class- //Amphibia//
 * Order- //Anura//
 * Family- //Dendrobatidae//
 * Genes- //Dendrobates//
 * Species- //Dendrobates//



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By Jared Wallower