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Golden dart poison frogs (Colostethus beebei) are small, brightly colored tree frogs that live their entire lives (about five to seven years) inside the cloud forest's bromeliads. Their diet includes small arthropods, ants, termites, small insects and mosquitoes and midges. Their bright colors--in patterns of green, red, orange, yellow, blue, white and/or jet black, depending on the species--are intended to warn predators of their deadly toxins.
They may live either in the water or in trees near rivers, streams and various small bodies of water.Image credit: Photo by Godfrey R. Bourne
