Beautiful and Most Toxic


	Beautiful and Most Toxic
Kelika
8-17-2008 8:12 PM
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animals, frogs
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8-18-2008 5:30 AM
balthazarus
Frogs, and frog avatars are beautiful and known to be dangerous
8-18-2008 7:11 AM
queerty
Great shots!
8-18-2008 12:53 PM
tanyamm
It's almost sad, something so beautiful can be so toxic.
8-19-2008 4:20 PM
wiganfootie
there so beautiful,,
8-20-2008 7:42 PM
silvanaraihane
wow, you learn something new every day! didn't know sweet frogs were toxic! I have always loved frogs
8-20-2008 9:16 PM
tanyamm
The prettier they are, the more toxic they are.
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The skin of an adult P. terribilis has enough batrachotoxin to kill 20,000 mice, or 100 adult humans. Two-tenths of a microgram of batrachotoxin is lethal in the human blood stream and each adult P. terribilis contains nearly 200 micrograms."</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BC25AF86-8801-4B6C-9426-9955EF53503F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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