It Could Kill You: Meet the poison dart frog secretes a highlydangerous neurotoxin, called batrachotoxin, which is toxin, through its pores. In fact, various Latin American tribes usedto collect it (carefully) to poison the tips of their arrows for hunting and warfare. Interest
ingly, however, the frogs don’tproduce their own toxin. They get it from eating insects that most likely pick up the poison from the plants they eat.The same frogs, if raised in a laboratory rather than the rain forest, aren’t poisonous at all.
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