Granular Poison Frog

• Its range is a narrow strip of the Central American Pacific slope, heavily fragmented by deforestation, which places it in a higher threat category than its more widespread relatives.
• Like the strawberry poison frog, the mother carries each tadpole to a different bromeliad and returns to each of them for weeks to lay an infertile egg for the young to eat.
• The males are extremely territorial despite their size: they defend a square metre of leaf litter with calls, displays and wrestling bouts in which they try to pin their rival to the ground.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (amphibian)

Habitat and environment

Understorey of rainforest of the Pacific slope of Costa Rica and Panama

Size at birth

The female carries each tadpole to a bromeliad and feeds it with unfertilised eggs

Sexual maturity

10 months

Gestation / incubation

Larval development in bromeliads, fed by the mother

Litter / clutch size

5 eggs

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oophaga_granulifera

Best time: All year round on the Pacific slope of Costa Rica and Panama, by day, on the floor of the rainforest.

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.