Being a Poison Dart Frog Parent is HARD | 4K UHD | Seven Worlds One Planet | BBC Earth

Being a parent brings all sorts of challenges, but for the poison dart frog, remembering which tiny water pool you've left your tadpole in is just the beginning of their problems. However, team work makes the dream work, and these parents rise to the six week challenge ahead of them.

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Seven Worlds One Planet (2019)
Millions of years ago incredible forces ripped apart the Earth's crust creating seven extraordinary continents. One Planet: Seven Worlds, presented by Sir David Attenborough, will reveal how each distinct continent has shaped the unique animal life found there.

Welcome to BBC EARTH! The world is an amazing place full of stories, beauty and natural wonder. Here you'll find 50 years worth of entertaining and thought-provoking natural history content. Dramatic, rare, and exclusive, nature doesn't get more exciting than this.

[shlingusdingus]

That is the sweetest thing. You'd never expect a frog to be such a dedicated parent, but time and time again, though they look as if there's not a thought in their head, they amaze and astound.

[justcallmedevil]

Considering the size and the vegetation that makes keeping up with small things like that almost impossible. The filming is mind-blowing to me. Phenomenal work

[tmc]

The fact that the camera man was immersed in this smaller spectrum and kept up… the production crew was top tier… absolute excellence

[ariadnefrolich]

I had no idea Poison Dart Frogs were such good parents!

[_the_quiet_one_]

Best parent award for those frog parents 👍🏻

[wither]

the fact that the parents memorize a ''for their scale'' MASSIVE 3D space is incredible, not to mention the evolutionarily genius move of laying un fertilized eggs as convenient food sources for their tad poles. nature is amazing.

[iapneS_itaraiccuB]

Look how the father jumped and walked gently and cautiously to prevent falling off while he's giving it's offspring the piggyback ride to go to a safer location for it's child?
*That's one hella Dad 🤙🏽*

[PaulaLPope]

Wow! To be able to get around that 3D maze and remember what nooks you stashed your babies in...amazing!

[rajat_sekhar]

How did you guys manage to film all these stuff?! It's unbelievable! Hats off!

[devonhill]

It’s incredible that this basically a convergence of song birds!
-monogamy pair bonds
-rearing young in nest-like structures
-bringing back (or in this case creating) food
-calling to one another
-sharing the workload

It’s not a perfect one-to-one fit. But the similarities are striking!

[harryv]

And the Mom & Dad of the Year award goes to this extraordinary couple. Congratulations!

[NightShadow]

The hardest part for the poison dart frogs is how they are endangered species. They need to be protected at all costs.

[riazijabar]

It's 97 years of David attenborough this guy outlived my whole generation.

[marianocolsin]

When a poisonous frog is literally better parent and less toxic that your own dad 💀

[jkissist]

These frogs are better parents than most humans.

[Notpoop]

These little guys have always had a special place in my heart because they were one of my favorite animals as a small child. They almost don't look real! So beautiful

[cdmsvt]

The biology of those frogs is amazing. How is it that such a tiny creature can remember things like placement, listen to and understand a call, know when and how to transport it's young. This goes beyond instinct.

[raintree]

I am in a Shelter right now and down the hall is a woman with a 2 month old baby....She leaves her baby screaming in her room and goes down stairs to have her lunch and play with her phone and chat with other girls I am literally right this second listening to the baby screaming his head off for the last 25 the devotion of these Frogs is depressing in comparison...

[RexNovida]

This is my very first time to see how great those creatures are. The sweetest parents!

[Rajivskyi_S_B]

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