The rainforest is home to two groups of amphibians. The most common type is the frog. The second group, called salamanders, are not as common in the rainforests as in the Northern Hemisphere.

The most famous of the frogs, are the Poison Arrow frog. Because their secretions are used by some Indians to produce poison for hunting darts. The secretion contains an algoid, a resemblance of algae that affects muscles and nerves when entered in the blood stream. Even monkeys can be paralyzed by the toxin.

There are many different species of Poison Arrow frogs. They are basically black in color with markings of red, green, orange, and yellow- depending on the species. The significant bright color serves as a warning to other animals. Most of them live in a pile of leafs on the rainforest floor. They hunt by eating ants, termites, and other small insect.

The Leaf Toad is common in rainforest around acer, which is a place with trees and shrubs. Its head is shaped like a dead leaf so it can be blended into the ground.

The Marine Toad is very large and slow at moving. It lives on the forest floor and is light brown in color. Making it hard to see. It is protected from predators by poisonous skin glands. So it rarely gets gobbled up by other rainforest animals.

Salamanders have lizard like sleak bodies, four feet and a long tail. They are the closest, to frogs. It was superstition that salamanders could live through a fire. They eat seaweed type of leafs, that you could find in streams.

To learn more about amphibians visit the following sites:
http://www.ran.org/kids_action/s06_animals.html
http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/kids&teachers/kids/frog-pond/index.html http://www.rainforestlive.org.uk/index.cfm?Articleid=376