Like all members of the genera " Phyllobates ", " Dendrobates ", and " Ranitomeya ", family groups of golden poison dart frogs assemble into large breeding gatherings once or twice per year.
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It is not clear which prey species supplies the potent alkaloid that gives golden poison frogs their exceptionally high levels of toxicity, or whether the frogs modify another available toxin to produce a more efficient variant, as do some of the frogs from the genus " Dendrobates ".
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Despite its name, the BDG was an international group of people concerned with one objective : the conservation and captive breeding of a small group of South American frogs belonging to the " Dendrobates ", " Phyllobates " and related genera such as " Mantella spp ."
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"Ranitomeya " and " Andinobates " frogs can be distinguished from those in genera such as " Dendrobates " in that they are generally smaller, have more than two colors, and seem to glitter if viewed from certain angles . " Ranitomeya " is widespread in the Amazon basin, whereas " Andinobates " species are found only in the northern Andes down to Central America.
