Golfo Dulce Poison Dart Frog

2008-05-28T14:41:00.000-07:00

I'm loaded with poison dart frogs, mostly the green and black one (Dendrobates auratus) and the blue jeans poison dart frog (Dentrobates pumilio). But, every once in a while on my southern pacific coast property, I'll run into a Golfo Dulce poison dart frog. Once common, or at least that's what I'm told, these guys are scarce now. There's a waterfall that they tend to like and that's where I usually see them.

One day I caught this male and while filming it with my little point-and-shoot digital Nikon camera I noticed that it had seven tadpoles clinging to its back.

Check it out:

Here's a still photograph I took. You can get a much better look at the tadpoles on his back:

Hangin' Out in Costa Rica

Golfo Dulce Poison Dart Frog