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__Endangered Species Project__

__**1) My Endangered Species and the Environment:**__

**Poison Dart Frog Facts:**
 * The Poison Dart Frog is located in the Amazon Rainforest
 * There are an estimated amount of 10,000 to 13,000 Poison Dart Frogs left in the wild
 * Niche: To control the amount of spiders and insects in the rainforest so the population won't skyrocket
 * The amount of insects and spiders will affect it's population because it's it's prey, if they fall the Poison Dart Frogs numbers will significantly drop. The number of snakes will also affect it's population because it is it's predator and if their number goes down the Poison Dart Frogs population will skyrocket. The amount of water will affect it to because all frogs need a water source to survive. This is because Poison Dart Frog breath through their skin.
 * It's a predator, it is designed to warn other predators that are not snakes to tell them that they are poisonous and not to touch them. It gets it's poison form other insects it eats.
 * It averagely weighs 2 grams and have dimensions of 5 cm.
 * They reproduce by laying eggs in the water where they turn to tadpoles and slowly start evolving into a frog

=**__2) Food Web __** = [|Amazonian Rainforest Food Web.docx]

**__3) Special Adaptations__**

 * The Poison Dart Frog has a very long tounge so that it can catch insects like aggressive ants without having a conflict with the rest of the population
 * It has very long hind legs so that he can jump far so that way he can sometimes escape predators

__**4) Ways they know the Population**__

 * Scientist used the track-and -release method and the sampling method to find a range of how many Poison Dart Frogs are left in the wild. They do the sampling method by directly observing the number of Poison Dart Frogs by zones and then count two to three zones, then find the average and then multiply that number by the number of zones.

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