Sunday, March 11, 2012

Life of a Poison Dart Frog

I spent around 15 minutes fantasising what it would be like to live a life of a poison dart frog.
In case you're wondering, I'm talking about the golden poison frog, Phyllobates terribilis, which has the ability to secrete a variety of neurotoxins, one of which is batrachotoxin, the most deadly non-protein neurotoxin ever known (with enough secreted by one frog to kill two adult elephants). But that's only for information, I digress.
Anyways, the interesting thing about golden poison frog is that they are rather social creatures living in groups of 10 to 15 and like to interact with each other, since the only creatures that won't die from their mere touch are themselves. So I was actually wrong about not being able to hug people, assuming we are the same species o.o
Life as a golden poison frog would be quite interesting. I start off by living in a super humid place (which I probably enjoy), hop everywhere to find food and look at stuff, as well as flaunt my warning colour to anything that comes near me and (occasionally) kill things by being touched by them. All I need to watch out for is random natives that cook me alive to make poison darts. Other than that poison dart frog is probably one of the few animals that doesn't have to fear natural predators, because that's almost non-existent. (Apart from a type of snake that is tolerant to the toxin)
Yeah I guess such a life is not bad. And the type of scenario inside a rain forest is not bad also, good to live in.
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Anyways back from fantasising, these few days are obviously meant for mugging for blocks. Despite the fact that it's not counted it is still important for me to know how well I can perform. Which is why I'm actually going to mug chemistry this time to see how well I can do. (as well as to tell other people that I'm not as noob as they think, I'm just lazy)
Talking about chemistry, gc is probably the student who's best at organic chem as of now. Which means even if I do mug organic chem I can't reach the same standard as him. So while trying to approach his status of godliness I shall do 'product differentiation' by maintaining my edge at inorg chem. hoho

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