Question: what protects blue poison frog

Asked by swan566 to Blaire, Elizabeth, Jenny, Shona, Simon on 12 Mar 2013.

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  1. Photo: Simon AllenSimon Allen
    answered on 12 Mar 2013:

    I am afraid I don’t know.

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  2. Photo: Blaire DobieckiBlaire Dobiecki
    answered on 12 Mar 2013:

    I’m not sure what you mean @swan566. Do you mean what protects it from its own poison? Unfortunately I don’t know much about this frog.

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  3. Photo: Shona MarksShona Marks
    answered on 12 Mar 2013:

    I think the frog your talking about is the pioson dart frog from central and southern america. They are a blue colour or yellow and black colour, depending on the species. I’m not sure if we have simular species in Australia, I’m not very good with frogs.

    Could you use different words in your question for us to understand better.

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  4. Photo: Jennifer L. A. ShawJennifer L. A. Shaw
    answered on 12 Mar 2013:

    I don’t know much about frogs but I will try and answer your question… The bright colour of the frog deters predators from attacking it because it secretes a poisonous goo to kill anything that does eat it. So animals know better than to eat a frog that is that colour because its probably poisonous. Is that what you meant?

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