The Kokoe poison frog (Phyllobates aurotaenia) is a frog. It lives in Colombia.[2][3][1]
Body
The adult male frog is about 32 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is about 35 mm long. The skin of the frog's back is black in color. It has two stripes on its back, from its nose to its back legs. The tops of the legs have spots. The spots can be orange, gold, blue, or green. The skin of the belly is black in color with blue or green spots.[3]
The female frog lays eggs on dead leaves on the ground. After the eggs hatch, the male frog carries the tadpoles to pools of water in streams.[1][3]
Young frogs are black with gold stripes. They have blue or green spots on their bellies.[3]
Poison
This frog has batrachotoxin poison in its skin.[3] Chocó Indians catch the frog to use the poison on the tools they use to hunt.[1] Sometimes they touch the arrow or other tool to the frog's back. Other times, they kill and cook the frog.[3]
People do sell this frog as a pet, but scientists say this is not a danger. People raise this frog in glass cages, and most pets were never wild frogs.[1]
