Alkaloids
Neurotoxins
Habitat
Diet
characteristics
100

What are alkaloids?

What are small arthropods?

100

what are the effects of the toxin?

what are convulsions, muscle contractions, salivation, and death?

100

what country are the most commonly found in?

Where is Central and Southern America?

100

What kind of bug do dart frogs eat?

what are fruit flies, ants, termites, young crickets, and tiny beetles?

100

What color is the dots on dart frog backs?

what is the color black?

200

what receptors in the brain does epibatidine trigger? 

what are the same receptors as nicotine?

200

what do dart frogs do to fight their own poison?

what is build-up resistance? 

200

what kind of biome do dart frogs live in?

what are tropic rainforests?

200

Why do dart frogs eat these small anthropods?

why is it to help with the toxins they exert?

200

what is one rare color they can appear as?

What is the color yellow?

300

What is their most potent alkaloid?

What is Epibatitene? 

300

what part of the body do dart frogs exert their poison from?

What is the skin?

300

What part of the rainforest do most dart frogs reside in?

what is the safety of the treetops?

300

How many times a week should a juvenile dart frog be fed?

how long is every 4-5 days?

300

What color are the dart frog's belly and legs?

What is the color dark blue?

400

what happens when the alkaloid and the neurotoxin meet in the brain?

what are they set off a cascade of chemical and electrical signals?

400

what are the alkaloids like to the neurotoxins?

What are locks and keys?

400

what rainforests do they reside in?

what is the Amazon Basin?

400

How many times a week should a adult dart frog be fed?

How long is every 2-3 days a week?
400

what size do most dart frogs accumulate to?

What is the length of 0.59 inches?

500

why do dart frogs consume alkaloids?

what is because they need it to potent their toxins?

500

What is the difference between alkaloids and Neurotoxin alkaloids?

what is one protects dart frogs from killing themselves?

500

What daytime temperature is preferable for dart frogs?

what are temps between 72to 80o? 

500

why do dart frogs need the epibatedene that the small arthropods they consume provide?

why is to help streghten and build up poison?

500

Why are dart frogs so brightly colored?

Why is it to warn predators?

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