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If the parent does not heed this warning and deposits its tadpole into this already occupied pool of water, the original, larger tadpole will eat the younger tadpole. In some species of poison dart frogs, parental responsibility does not end here. In the species Dendrobates granuliferus and Dendrobates pumilio, the female returns to each tadpole and deposits nutrient rich, protein-filled eggs into their private aquariums as food for the developing tadpoles.
To assess whether cane toad eggs provide significant nutrition for conspecific tadpole growth and development, we reared toad tadpoles at ambient temperatures using 1000 ml plastic containers filled with 750 ml bore water in a randomized block design experiment.1) Toxin transfer. The amount and diversity of toxins (bufadienolides) decrease from the egg stage through larval development in cane toads, such that late-stage tadpoles and metamorphs have less effective chemical defences than earlier tadpoles or (especially) eggs (Hayes et al. 2009).