Pet poison dart frogs

[Mike]

Some captive bred terribilis: http://www.frognet.org/albums/mjm23-frogs/DSCN1999.mov

[Kurt]

The link appears to be out dated.

[John]

Works fine for me. Thanks for finding that Mike - I had seen it a while ago but couldn't track it down.

[Mike]

I was there when it was filmed, the person is still alive .

[herpinjim]

The P terribilis that were being kept were captive bred. The first person I talked to mentioned a slight burning reaction on their hands after handling their frog. I didn't know this person very well and just talked to him in passing. The second person to mention a reaction from P terribilis to me is a curator at a aza accredited zoo. I would mention the name, but don't know if he has plans on publishing anything on it or not. Ive personally have never kept P terribilis or even handled one.

[Kurt]

Works fine for me.

Still not working for me, for some reason.

[Mike]

A paper published by John Daly in Science (1980) showed that WC terribilis maintained toxicity after being in captivity for several years but at the same time that F1's produced by then in captivity were not toxic. I don't have the reference on hand but will find it later.

[Tom Highum]

Wait were those frogs attacking the persons fingers? I was under the assumption that darts were kind shy and not aggressive to large things.

[John]

Phyllobates terribilis and P. bicolor are without doubt the most bold of all poison dart frogs.

[Mike]

Wait were those frogs attacking the persons fingers? I was under the assumption that darts were kind shy and not aggressive to large things.

Well I wouldn't say attacking, more like they thought the fingers were food and tried to eat them . Some darts are shy while others are bolder. But I would really classify any of them as aggressive to humans.