Dendro-Wiki

Welcome to Dendro-Wiki
Dendro-Wiki is an encyclopedia about poison frogs, their relatives, and the hobby of keeping them. The wiki format allows anyone to contribute to the wiki, so we can contribute together to make the ultimate database on the new and exciting hobby of poison-dart frogging.

Poison Frogs
At last, scientists are beginning to understand the world as a whole. The environments, plants, and animals are not exactly what they seem. Things that look dangerous can be not so. And the most innocent-looking of all animals can be deadly. Consider, for example, the brightly coloured tree frog to the right. Wouldn’t it look fantastic in a terrarium at home?

If you were to pick it up, you would soon start to feel ill. A severe, fiery pain would spread through your body, and your muscles would cramp. You would begin to have a fever. You have picked up the poison dart frog, one of the most subtle dangers in the entire rainforest. It would take as much as two days before you had completely recovered. And that’s not all. If you had picked up one of its relatives, you may not have recovered at all.

And yet, poison dart frogs are kept as exotic pets. Their unparalleled beauty, comical behaviour, and touching affection as mates and parents has made them become very popular, and more and more are being kept as pets. To keep such animals seems foolishly dangerous, but because of their attractive qualities, and the fact that they are innocuous when raised in captivity, along with the fact that most hobbyists simply love their little anurans, a close bond between frog and keeper has been forged.

As wild animals, and as pets, poison dart frogs are amazing. Unlike many kinds of frogs, these are active by day and are extremely active. Some of the bigger species have no fear of humans at all. They will observe their owners, just as their owners will observe them. And they can be surprisingly intelligent, curious, and very alert. Each one of these qualities has made poison dart frogs perhaps the most popular frogs as pets.

This wiki will look at poison dart frogs, and describe how they can be successfully kept as pets, as well as some of their natural qualities, and how these can be exploited. Happy frogging!