By Jean-Paul of Bank Street School For Children, NYC.

Poison Arrow Frog and its Environment

You've seen birds fly and chipmunks climb, but I bet you've never seen a Poison Arrow Frog jump, climb, or hold on to bars. Well you can see it all at the in the tropic section at the Central Park zoo. Once you get inside you'll see lots of great things.

When you see the Poison Arrow Frogs it's a whole different world. The Poison Arrow Frog is from South America. You can find them in parts of the Amazon Rain Forest and near ponds, lakes and rivers. They hate captivity, like any other animal; and that's when they start to do what they do best - climb. In some cases all three frogs I observed would climb the back wall trying to get through the roof. Sometimes they would climb a leaf to jump onto a wall a half foot away, and land on the top of the wall. If I were to call the Poison Arrow frog a star's name, I would call them Sylvester Stalone in the movie "Cliff Hanger."

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