Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • BBC Wildlife Magazine

    ALL YOU EVER NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT Poison dart frogs

    Jul 25, 2024 3 minutes
    f0086-01.jpg

    One golden poison frog has enough toxin to slay 10 men

    GOLDEN POSION FROG: ALAMY

    OISON DART FROGS BELONG TO the family Dendrobatidae. There are approximately 200 species and they are found in the tropical rainforests of Central and South America. Their poison is used by tribes to tip their blowgun darts when hunting, giving the amphibians their common name. Many Dendrobatidae species are poisonous, with varying degrees of toxic skin, but some are more deadly than others. One in particular is famously considered to be one of the most toxic

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from BBC Wildlife Magazine

    BBC Wildlife Magazine1 min read
    Everyone Get Ready To Say “Aww…”
    Here at BBC Wildlife over the last few weeks, I’ve noticed how often we comment on an animal’s appearance in terms of how it makes us feel. We all cooed over the kiwi chick on p88, and wowed at the jaguar on p69, for example. And yet when we saw the
    BBC Wildlife Magazine4 min read
    Light On The North
    A golden sunrise glow bathes a herd of eight musk oxen grazing in the mist in Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella National Park, south-central Norway. These shaggy herbivores – which, despite the name, are more closely related to goats than cows – lumbered thr
    BBC Wildlife Magazine1 min read
    Fast Answers
    Spiders don’t fly exactly; they ‘balloon’. To get airborne, a spider climbs to the top of a plant or rock and stands on tiptoe, pushing its abdomen into the air and releasing strands of silk from its spinnerets. These are caught by the breeze, pullin

    Related Books & Audiobooks