The early black-spotted poisonous frogs of the tadpole form have been shown to be very “gluttonous”, ready to eat both of their siblings if the frog father does not “take care”.
Newborn poisonous frogs in Peru are quite voracious. If they are left in the pond where their flocks were born, the hungry tadpoles will eat themselves. To prevent these newborn frogs from slaughtering their siblings, the daddy frog will carry them on his back and drop them off in private pools where food is available.
However, some daddy frogs have left their children behind. For many unknown reasons, these adult male frogs even give up and never return to care for their growing offspring.
The abandoned tadpoles will not be able to wait for the father’s return, the researchers said, as they run the risk of being eaten by siblings in their herd.
But if you are lucky enough to have an adult frog visiting the lake to find a breeding nest, sleep or cool off, some tadpoles will be “saved” by climbing on the adult frog’s back to the pool. other. The strange thing is even that adult frogs are different from tadpoles.
This frog carries enough poison to kill 5 people. Lisa Schulte and Michael Mayer, Department of Geobiology, University of Trier, Germany, reported the above responses to the tadpoles of the poisonous frog Ranitomeya variabilis (black spotted frog – a species endemic to Peru) with two different genera, Ranitomeya imitator and Hyloxalus nexipus
Through experiments, the research team found that endangered tadpoles will not passively wait for their parents to bring them in. “Instead, they will get very close and climb on other adult frogs,” the team told Live Science.
