Yellow Banded Poison Frog

These are little frogs famous for their poisonous skin
secretions used on arrow tips.
They in part highly potent nerve toxins with a steroids
structure and are used by the Amerindians as poison to kill
birds and monkeys.
These frogs are highly vocal, they give off humming,
trilling or chirping sounds and can often be found in rock or
tree stumps.
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