Lifestyles of the bright and toxic overlap

They’re bright, beautiful, and dangerous to eat. But until now, no one has known about the home lives of Madagascar’s toxic frogs. Now, a researcher has observed these domestic dramas in the wild.

The behavior of the frogs–in the Mantella genus–appears strangely familiar, reports Heather Heying of the Museum of Zoology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.