Tiny Poison-dart Frog, Costa Rica by Hedepo
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Description
Colostethus talamancae is a species of frog in the Dendrobatidae family. My wife found it in, Costa Rica. On a walk way through a dense humid, steaming hot rain forest. It was amazing she found this little frog because it was less than a half inch tall, even less than a centimeter!! Despite their size, they are rather poisonous but not fatal to human beings!!
It was day time, however at the bottom of a rainforest it is rather dark!!!
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, swamps, and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Costa Rica lies squarely in the tropics, at a crossroads connecting North and South America. This "rich coast" country, is bordered to the east by the warm Caribbean, and the Atlantic Ocean, and to the west by the Pacific Ocean. In between these coasts, lie lowland jungles, mountain forest draped in mosses, alpine tundra, and dry forest--and all adorned with anurans (frogs and toads that is).
Thanks for your time for viewing and your kind comments on my previous upload
Henk
Comments (5)
kgb224
Stunning capture my friend.
kbrog
There's a fine looking one. :) Excellent capture!
MaraP
Excellent macro!
Digitaleagle
Fantastic capture, I would imagine they are hard to find it appears they well blind in the surroundings very well, excellent work!
MrsLubner
Henk, how wonderful. Look at how long and thin he is and those front legs are lanky and straight. The detail is marvelous.