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== Habitat == Poison dart frogs are endemic to [[humid]], tropical environments of Central and South America.<ref name="amphibiaweb1" /> These frogs are generally found in [[tropical rainforest]]s, including in [[Bolivia]], [[Costa Rica]], [[Brazil]], [[Colombia]], [[Ecuador]], [[Venezuela]], [[Suriname]], [[French Guiana]], [[Peru]], [[Panama]], [[Guyana]], [[Nicaragua]], and [[Hawaii]] (introduced).<ref name="amphibiaweb1" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.explorebiodiversity.com/Hawaii/BiodiversityForgotten/Wildlife/Reptiles/Frogs%20-%20Poison.htm|title=Poison Dart Frogs in Hawaii|access-date=2008-10-21|publisher=Explore Biodiversity|archive-date=2016-09-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913220139/http://www.explorebiodiversity.com/Hawaii/BiodiversityForgotten/Wildlife/Reptiles/Frogs%20-%20Poison.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Natural habitats include moist, lowland forests (subtropical and tropical), high-altitude shrubland (subtropical and tropical), moist montanes and rivers (subtropical and tropical), freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, lakes and swamps. Other species can be found in seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, arable land, pastureland, rural gardens, plantations, moist savanna and heavily degraded former forest. Premontane forests and rocky areas have also been known to hold frogs. Dendrobatids tend to live on or close to the ground, but also in trees as much as {{convert|10|m|ft|abbr=on}} from the ground.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hurme |first1=Kristiina |author2=Gonzalez, Kittzie |author3=Halvorsen, Mark |author4=Foster, Bruce |author5=Moore, Don |year=2003 |title=Environmental Enrichment for Dendrobatid Frogs |journal=Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science |volume=6 |issue=4 |pages=285β299 |doi=10.1207/s15327604jaws0604_3 |pmid=14965783 |citeseerx=10.1.1.596.430 |s2cid=42075108 }}</ref>
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