The Curious Compendium 2023 Tour Finale: Griffons!

Five Green and black poison dart frogs and one Black and green

Lovely!

Thank you everyone! 

Yellow-banded poison dart frogs!
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Of over 175 species of poison dart frogs only 3 have been documented as being used for the local native american hunting practices. Curare plants are generally MUCH more commonly used (probably because they are easier to catch ).

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Not that I have made any effort for it, mainly because the wish list keeps growing, and our backup plans are increasingly put on the back burner. However, I would still like to have at least one of those figures from the Baltimore Museum's Tropical Frogs series by Safari Ltd.
You have a good number of these beautiful frogs, they look so cool together.

The Dalton family

The Baltimore Museum's Tropical Frogs one is indeed the most delicate of the crew

Thank you everyone. :)

Lehman's and Harlequin PDF!
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As one might imagine, the coloration correlates to the deadliness of the toxic frog. These colors may give them away to potential predators in the lush muted natural colors of their environment, but they are a dead give away to most that these small frogs are NOT for snacking on!

Mixed group of PDFs. :) 
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These toxins of these frogs have been shown to be medicinally useful in recent studies! These range in use from general anesthetic, to a painkiller more effective and less addictive than morphine, to a cardiac stimulant; these frogs hold secrets we are currently trying to understand. :)

So colorful!

I love them! Nature is pure art.

Great batches, I have a big soft spot for frogs figure, especially the colored ones

I love the colors and unique shapes too. :)

My last group of poison dart frogs!
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The golden poison dart frog (pictured above) is the deadliest known PDF; possibly the most poisonous animal on earth! At only 5cm long it has enough poison to kill 10-20 humans, 20,000 mice, or 2 adult bull African elephants. The amount of toxin to cover a pinhead could kill you or a full grown adult jaguar!

Reed frogs!

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My fun fact is for the common reed frog: it was once thought that these animals were capable of protogyny (changing from one sex to another if environmental need arose). However, it is now believed that this was an extremely rare case; it had been observed in a captive colony in 1989, hasn't been recorded since, and has never been seen in the wild.

I have to thank you again for giving me the Schleich African reed frog and erasing one of my collecting regrets! :)

Bit late to the frog party, but they are all really cool figures, I especially like the reed frogs.

Thank you everyone! And it was my pleasure Roger. :)

Horned frogs!
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Also known as Pacman frogs, Argentine horned frogs have been known to choke themselves to death by attempting to eat prey items larger than themselves!

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Those are the stars of many cruel videos on Youtube. It is not their fault, of course but it is hard to understand Youtube policies, where some videos are blocked without a plausible explanation and those are allowed and even promoted. I don't have a single horned frog in my collection. Papo model is retired, I hope not to regret another frog I devoted to forgetfulness.

Thank you! And yes Roger I agree 100%. Very neat animals taken advantage of for entertainment.

More horned frogs.
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These were challenging to find fun facts on and I am sure they won't be the last. But for the Malayan horned frog; even their babies have weird protuberances on their heads! Their mouths specifically have these wide flange like tissues around them.

Nice, what brand is the large horned frog?

Colorata. :)

widukind wrote:

Nice, what brand is the large horned frog?

Colorata

I love all your last frogs pics but I must say the Pacman one is very cruel too, the Safari Ltd is so tempting and I stupidely miss the Papo when it was available... Silly macaque