How to Survive a Poison Dart Frog

Deep in the tropical forests of Colombia, you come across a small, beautiful frog. You're captivated by its brilliant color and reach out to hold it in your hand. Within seconds, your hand starts to go numb. Something's wrong. Something is terribly wrong. The effects quickly spread throughout your body. What is happening? What can you do to avoid getting poisoned? How can you identify the most dangerous frogs? And what should you do if you come in contact with one?

00:00 Surviving a Poison Dart Frog
01:08 #1 Avoid the more colorful frogs
01:22 #2 Don't touch the frog
01:46 #3 Wash your hands
02:17 #4 Don't touch anything that touched the frog
02:42 #5 Get treatment

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[stevenhcryt]

"How to survive a frog that can kill 10 humans."

Be the 11th guy

[funnyhappystudios]

“Make sure to wash your hands”

Okay. When I’m in the jungle, I’ll make sure to find a tree that grows soap

[nikkisigmon]

"Don't touch the frog"
*proceeds to show multiple video clips of people holding dart frogs...

[Onehelluvahotel]

I keep poison dart frogs in captivity. Very cool species!
In the wild they are poisonous but in captivity they are harmless considering they get there poison from their diet in the wild. Good video👍

[Fishfished]

the frog at 0:50 is called a Golden Mantella, it is not related to dart frogs, and is found on the opposite side of the world (madagascar). they are still poisonous though.

[roughroadrunner]

Pls make a "How to survive living on planet earth" video

[ubme]

Just imagine “kids mommy and daddy are busy killing people cause they don’t stay away” the casual poison dart frog conversation

[thegreat]

Thanks for helping me about how to survive from poisonous dart frogs, it'll be a very useful information for people to know those frogs.

[adityarajc]

I literally read that :
"How to survive a Poison Fart Dog"

[ilyaslebleu]

Just touched a poison dart frog a few minutes ago. Thanks for the video! She's back in her terrarium now 👍

[aniruudhh]

Its crazy how something so small can kill a human with such ease

[jacquonf]

So basically there's no way to survive it when there's no anti venom and I only have 3 minutes to live.

[corss]

i actually almost got killed in south america in the jungle. The poison dart frog was next to me and i was sitting on a rock. The poison dart frog almost killed me. Thanks to you guys you saved my life.

[Make]

When you just got touched by a poison frog and search up this video for answers: —👄👁

[sreejithmadhav]

2:25
Man that's nearly impossible to avoid

[HarrysonTomson]

Pucci watching this video while in prison.

[Kavitarathi]

When the notification came to me I accidentally read the 'dart' as 'fart' 😅

[vineflower]

Karl Pilkington: "Why is it so mad? Why does it want to kill 10 people in one bite?" Thumb up Pilkinites!

[NightfallShadow]

Just touching a poison dart frog isn't going to poison you. People touch them all the time, in fact, you HAVE to touch them in order to put their poison on a dart tip to poison it which is where they get their name from.

[gokan]

*after accidentally touching a poison dart frog*
Me: *MY NAME IS KELL STEVEN AND AM THE FASTEST MAN ALIVE AND AM REACHING OVER FOR SOME SOAP*
Btw, great video and I cant wait for more!!!