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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Most (maybe all?) poison dart frogs get the poison because of their diet. Raising one domestically changes the diet so that they can’t produce the poison.

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