Dyeing poison dart frog
Amazing fact
Dyeing poison dart frogs climb using adhesive pads on their fingers and toes.
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Dyeing poison dart frogs climb using adhesive pads on their fingers and toes.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Dyeing poison dart frog
- Scientific name
- Dendrobates tinctorius
- Japanese name
- アイゾメヤドクガエル
- Group
- Amphibians and reptiles
- Class
- Amphibia
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Dendrobatidae
- Genus
- Dendrobates
A frog of the rainforests of northeastern South America, living in trees and on damp leaf litter.
Its bright colors are a warning to predators that it is poisonous.
When the eggs hatch, the father carries the tadpoles to a large pool of water.
How the Dyeing poison dart frog lives
They are most active searching for food and mates in the morning and early evening. Males and females may wrestle to defend their territories. Males call to attract females as mates. After a female lays her eggs and leaves, the male guards them.
Zoo New England (Stone Zoo)Basic data
- Active
- By day (diurnal)
- Diet
- Ants, termites, small spiders and other small insects
- Range
- French Guiana and northeastern Brazil
Where the Dyeing poison dart frog has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- アイゾメヤドクガエル
- 简体中文
- 染色箭毒蛙
- 繁體中文
- 染色箭毒蛙
- Español
- Rana flecha tintada
- Français
- Dendrobate à tapirer
- Deutsch
- Färberfrosch
- Português (Brasil)
- Sapo-boi-azul
- Italiano
- Dendrobate cobalto
- العربية
- ضفدع السهم السام
- Русский
- Пятнистый древолаз
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- Zoo New England (Stone Zoo) — Dyeing poison dart frogChecked: 2026-11-03
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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