Maurice Shema

I got totally obsessed with poison dart frogs.

So they live in that rainforest in South America.

So they're called poison dart frogs because people have used venom that comes from them to make poison tips on arrows.

And they're the size of, like, your thumbnail.

Oh, tiny.

Okay, real little.

So they're really tiny little frogs.

And they're singers.

Well, they chirp, right?

Okay.

To kind of claim, like, territory.

And the females will listen to them chirping to see, like, who's the best singer to decide where they want to lay their eggs.

And so the females will lay the eggs on wet leaves on the forest floor.

And then the dads will guard them.

And this is the best part.

When they hatch, the dad will take each tadpole individually on a piggyback ride.

What?

So on his back.

like the owl monkey each one individually and and go and find a plant that sort of has some covering it has some water inside and it'll lay the tadpole in there um so that it's safe and it has water like in a pool a little kiddie pool here kiddo take a swim

But he won't put any of them together because he doesn't want them to compete for resources.