Frog food.Here's a power-packed lunch: Researchers have discovered that a feast of ants gives poisonous poi·son·ous adj. Relating to or caused by a poison. poisonous having the properties of a poison. poisonous bride's bush pavettaschumanniana. frogs from Panama their predator-battling toxins. John Daly John Daly is the name of:
Often confused with mung. on ants containing poisons, called pumiliotoxins (pew-MEE-lee-oh-TOX-ins). These toxins get stored in the frog's skin. If a predator tries to eat the frog, the amphibian amphibian, in zoology amphibian, in zoology, cold-blooded vertebrate animal of the class Amphibia. There are three living orders of amphibians: the frogs and toads (order Anura, or Salientia), the salamanders and newts (order Urodela, or Caudata), and the (cold-blooded animal with a backbone, moist skin, and no scales) releases the poison through its skin. One taste of this foul chemical and the predator usually spits out the hopper. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WARNING SIGN: Brightly colored skin alerts predators that the frog are packing poison. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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