Rainforest frogs are located all over the world, such as in Central and South America, central Africa, southeast Asia and northeast Australia. The largest rainforest in the world is the Amazon, located in South America.
Rainforest frogs like the temperature to be at least 22 degrees Celsius. The humidity must be at least 80% and remain the same all year, because the frog's skin is moist all the time. If the humidity drops below 80% then they will die in a couple of hours, because they will dry out.
There are at least 170 species of rain forest frogs in colors from pale brown to brightly colored. The poisonous frogs only live in Central and South America. Not all poison frogs are deadly. Only 3 species are very dangerous.
Another poisonous frog is the common green tree frog. The common green tree frog is the best known frog in the Australian tropics. It is often found around human habitation such as in lavatories, bathrooms, down pipes and any other damp and shady place.
The common tree frog is large for a tree frog and grows to ten centimeters in length. You sometimes hear it call "wark" or "crawl" late at night, from the downpipes, hollow tree trunks or sometimes limbs during rain or periods of high humidity. Other names are White's tree frog, common tree frog, and green tree frog. Males grow to be 90mm, females to be 113mm. The fingers have webbing toward the bottom and the toes are three-quarters webbed. It can be green or brown and may have white dots and spots.
Poison dart frogs are brightly colored to warn away predators. They
live throughout the rainforests of South America. Pores in their
skin secrete deadly poisons that make them taste bad to animals who want
to eat them. Many native people of the rainforests use this secretion
to make a poison that they put on the tips of arrows or blowgun darts.
They use these weapons to hunt small animals. This practice occurs
mostly in Columbia.
Poison Arrow Frog
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