Three-striped Poison Dart Frog (Ameerega trivittata)

            Three-striped Poison Dart Frog (Ameerega trivittata), formerly called Epipedobates trivittatus, next to Lago de Tres Chimbadas, Rio Tambopata, Tambopata Rainforest, Puerto Maldonado, Peru.

The body of this little frog is about 3-4 cm in length.

Flash and frogs are very controversary discussed. On the one hand there is a change in the behaviour of nocturnal (!) tree frogs due to rapid changes in light. This can lead to some kind of photobleaching in the retina parts of the frog's eyes which further leads to a decrease of activity meaning finding prey for example. On the other hand this condition is reversible and afterwards the frog will be fine again. This implicates that flashing does not harm the frog. Yes and no. If you just use one or two flashes and/or from a longer distance I think this would be OK, but if you use it on a regular base and repeatedly and "full load" on the same individual then I think the frog wouldn't like it and you are on the risk to really harm the frog. It may take hours until this frog might be recovered from this multiple and strong changes of illumination. This is mostly referred to nocturnal frogs and other animals. So from a nature photograph aspect I personally do not use flash on nocturnal frogs (anymore! since I spent some hours in the literature) and I am happy with everybody who do not use flash either. But I will not judge anybody who use flash in a reasonable way. The problem is also that in crowed areas a single frog might to have to pose for dozens of photographers, mostly with automatic flash.

In my cases I had used a low-level flash and a fixed paper tissue to reduced the light intensity. I tried to avoid full eye-shots and repeated flash shots on the same poor and frightened little guy. Rainforest photography without flash and/or tripod is almost impossible. And you anyway have a miserable dof...

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Taken in: Perú / Madre de Dios / Tambopata (show map)

Taken on: February 18, 2011

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Three-striped Poison Dart Frog

Ameerega trivittata

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taxonomy:binomial=Epipedobates trivittatus

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