Reptiles
This is a review of an article about endangered reptiles…Read on…
Almost always, the common tree frog (Polypedates leucomystax)makes its way into houses looking for refuge in unlikely places.
Ernst Haeckel – philosopher, professor, physician, naturalist, biologist and artist. The pinnacle of his work – Art Forms of Nature – began publication in 1899 and is still an astonishing record of life on earth. When art and science combine, something sublime can come to pass.
As development continues to encroach on Britain’s Common Frog population there is increasing pressure on the species to survive. How long can the amphibian cope and will seeing a Common Frog soon become a rarity?
There are over 100 poisonous frogs in the world but the most deadliest and best know of them all is the poison dart frog. The poison dart frog has been used by tribes people for hunting animals for the last few centuries, rubbing their dart tips off the frogs’ skin. The venom from one of these darts could kill a man in seconds, and each of these frogs holds enough venom to kill 10-20 men.
Dendrodatidae are very tiny frogs from the Central and South Americas. They are commonly know as poison arrow or poison dart frogs because lipophillic alkaloid toxin secretions from the skin of three species of Dendrobatidae are used to make Curare, a poison for blowgun darts.