Although it is tempting to keep a frog that you find as a pet, it is really a bad idea for a number of reasons. Often wild caught animals die in captivity from stress; they are not used to living in glass cages!
It can be really difficult for them to adjust their diet from wild caught food to crickets that are most often used for frogs in captivities. It is also difficult to get the right environmental conditions, including temperature, de-chlorinated water and moisture levels. You also may expose them to chemicals and pathogens from your hands or your home.
Certain amphibians are endangered and it is actually illegal to have them as pets! Frogs are awesome and if you really, really want a pet frog than look into captive bred frogs at your local pet store. The can give you instructions on how to properly maintain and feed your pet frog so that it is happy and healthy! They pee to try and make you drop them so they can escape. Many animals will either urinate or defecate when handled or threatened. This is a normal defense mechanism to try and avoid being eaten.
Often their urine smells and tastes bad and will make a predator drop them and they can make a quick hop away to safety.
Do you know where rattlesnakes live in our state? Or which salamander breathes through its skin? Warts are caused by a virus, specifically the human papilloma virus. This microscopic virus enters the body through tiny cuts in the skin of the foot. Most of the time, our immune system destroys the virus and you never show any symptoms. Some times, the virus is not destroyed.
It instead takes over skin cells and produces more and more virus. A wart on the bottom, or plantar, part of the foot is called a plantar wart.
This is not to be confused with the word planter. Make no mistake, warts are not related to or caused by any type of farming or gardening. Plantar warts are raised, have a rough surface and often contain small black dots. These black dots are actually blood vessels that have been taken over by the virus cells and have now grown so fast that they clot off.
Because of this unique property warts can bleed easily if scratched or rubbed. Warts are sometimes painful and sometimes painless. It all depends on the thickness of the wart and the location. Skin on the bottom of the foot is very thick and makes treatment of warts difficult. Continue Reading. Admits two named adults in the same household and their children or grandchildren 18 years and under limit six.
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Who's right? You are right about frogs being used to make a poison that can kill large game animals or even people. Some members in a family of South American frogs known as the poison dart frogs produce alkaloid toxins on their skin that are among the deadliest poisons known.
I know of someone who touched a minor cut on his arm after picking up one of these frogs and within seconds went into a coma-like condition and almost died. When natives of a certain region of Colombia rub the skin of the frogs on their blowgun darts, they produce a lethal weapon that can kill an animal almost instantly upon penetration.
Poison dart frogs usually come out in the daytime, instead of at night like most other frogs. Their body color patterns include brightly colored blues, reds, or yellows, which are presumably warning colors to other animals that might try to eat them.
Poison dart frogs eat ants and somehow transform the ant venom into the deadly poison.
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