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==Orgin of the Name== | ==Orgin of the Name== | ||
The Dyeing Dart Frog was the first | The Dyeing Dart Frog was the first poisonous [[frog]] known to the Europeans. The name comes from an old story that started in Europe. There were legends that members of different tribes in the Amazon used various mixtures to change the green feathers of a parrot into red feathers. Acording to the legends frog skin and blood were mixed together and rubbed on an area of the parrot where they wanted to be changed. The parrot had to be young and its original green feathers had to be plucked. When the new feathers grew in, they would be red and sometimes yellow. Becuase it looked like they had been dyed they called the frog that they got the skin from the dyeing dart frog.[[http://www.rosamondgiffordzoo.org/animals_gallery.asp?id=66]] | ||
Dyeing poison dart frogs are also known as Dyeing poison arrow frogs. They got another part of the name from the natives. The native hunters would use the poison from the backs of the frogs on the tips of there arrows or darts. So that is why the were reffered to as poison dart frogs and poison arrow frogs. [[http://www.rosamondgiffordzoo.org/animals_gallery.asp?id=66 ]] | Dyeing poison dart frogs are also known as Dyeing poison arrow frogs. They got another part of the name from the natives. The native hunters would use the poison from the backs of the frogs on the tips of there arrows or darts. So that is why the were reffered to as poison dart frogs and poison arrow frogs. [[http://www.rosamondgiffordzoo.org/animals_gallery.asp?id=66 ]] | ||
