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== Diet == The diet of Dendrobatidae is what gives them the alkaloids/toxins that are found in their skin.<ref name="Darst-2005" /> The diet that is responsible for these characteristics consists primarily of small and leaf-litter arthropods found in its general habitat, typically ants.<ref name="Darst-2005" /> Their diet, however, is typically separated into two distinct categories.<ref name="Toft-1995">{{Cite journal |last=Toft |first=Catherine A. |date=1995 |title=Evolution of Diet Specialization in Poison-Dart Frogs (Dendrobatidae) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3892588 |journal=Herpetologica |volume=51 |issue=2 |pages=202β216 |issn=0018-0831 |jstor=3892588}}</ref> The first is the primary portion of Dendrobatidae's diet which include prey that are slow-moving, large in number, and small in size.<ref name="Toft-1995" /> This typically consists of [[ant]]s, while also including [[mite]]s, small [[beetle]]s, and minor litter-dwelling taxa.<ref name="Toft-1995" /> The second category of prey are much rarer finds and are much larger in body size, and they tend to have high palatability and mobility.<ref name="Toft-1995" /> These typically consist of the [[orthopteroid]]s, [[lepidoptera]]n larvae, and spiders.<ref name="Toft-1995" /> The natural diet of an individual dendrobatid depends on its species and prey abundance in its location, amongst other factors.<ref name="Darst-2005" />
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