Tiny clutch
It produces small clutches, usually one to five eggs, on humid and protected surfaces.
Andinobates fulguritus
Yellow-bellied poison frog
Transporting father
The male tends the clutch and later carries the tadpoles to tiny water deposits in plants.
Keystone trees
Its presence clusters around large, old trees that provide epiphytes and high-quality microhabitats.
Demanding forest habitat
It depends on well-preserved humid forest and on a complex network of leaf litter, epiphytes, and water deposits.
Tiny menu
Its diet is dominated by tiny leaf-litter prey, especially hymenopterans and mites.
Distribution
In Colombia it is known from Choco and Risaralda, within a broader range that continues into Panama.