Offering offspring as food to cannibals: oviposition strategies of Amazonian poison frogs (Dendrobates ventrimaculatus)

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• cannibalism 16%
• desiccation 13%
• egg 55%
• ephemeral pool 17%
• food 39%
• food provisioning 19%
• frog 64%
• metamorphosis 14%
• mortality 8%
• oviposition 86%
• parental care 18%
• plastic 17%
• plasticity 11%
• poison 74%
• rate 3%
• reproductive strategy 46%
• resource 25%
• resource availability 13%
• water body 49%

Agriculture & Biology

• body water 60%
• cannibalism 13%
• Dendrobates 100%
• egg masses 12%
• eggs 27%
• frogs 50%
• leaves 5%
• metamorphosis 11%
• oviposition 48%
• plasticity 10%
• plastics 17%
• tadpoles 61%
• wet season 21%