ELIF – Why do poison dart frogs loose their poison when they are raised domestically

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Basically the title. I once saw a documentation and one zoologist said that posion dart frogs loose their poison when kept in a zoo for example. Why is that?

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The poison that they make comes from their diet. There are certain insects they eat in the wild that somehow make them poisonous. In captivity, they are fed a different diet, and therefore are no longer able to make poison.

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