How fast would you die if you touched a poison dart frog with your fingertip?

Question

How fast would you die if you touched a poison dart frog with your fingertip?

Answer 1

Poison dart frogs excrete alkaloid toxins through their skin. Most species are not lethal to their predators, but rather taste foul enough that frogs are released immediately. Dart frogs also do not synthesize their poisons. The alkaloids are sequestered from prey items, such as ants and mites. Because of this, captive bred animals do not contain significant levels of toxin. However, wild caught animals can maintain toxicity for some time, so appropriate care should be taken when handling such animals.Despite the potent poisons utilized by some poison dart frogs, there are some predators that have developed the ability to survive the toxins, including the amazon ground snake Liophis epinephelus.

Answer 2

It depends on the frog, and possibly the individual.

Answer 3

No, due to a change in their diet (*in captivity*) they are completely safe to touch! Therefore, you will not die

Answer 4

Certain poison dart frogs do secrete a very deadly toxin from their skin, but the only way it can actually affect you is if u have an open cut or you put the place you touched the frog in your mouth or any other bodily openings, including you nose and eyes. Most poison dart frogs, despite their name, just taste very unappetizing their predators to make them spit the frog out. In captivity these alkaloid poisons from the frogs do not effect us, because it is either bred out genetically, or it is the none lethal kind. Like spiders and scorpions, these little frogs' toxicity vary.

Out of the 175 species of poison dart frogs, only three were claimed to have the lethal alkaloid toxins that were proved to kills their predators that ate them or had them in their mouths.