The researchers set up camera traps to locate the brightly-coloured frogs and study their behaviour. Most frogs attract a mate by calling loudly from a pond, stream or swamp, but this species ...

webbed orange feet and bright blue-and-yellow flanks. This technique, called startle coloration, may give a bird or snake pause, offering a precious instant for the frog to spring to safety.

These brightly coloured frogs have poisonous skin that repels predators, and they flourish in the humid jungle atmosphere, hunting tiny insects. Sloths are well-suited to the treetops, moving ...