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Originally Posted by NotherNana
Lorax,
You actually tip darts with the frog stuff???? Wow, I have heard of this. Can you eat whatever has been poisoned? Or do you have to cut away the flesh that was stuck? Do you have to kill the frog to do this? 
Gino |
I do, when I'm in the upper Amazon and hunting what is colloquially called a turkey. They're actually something else entirely, more like large crows. I have to cook the meat really well, but beyond that it's never been a problem. The technique is to catch a frog, blow on it so that it foams up, rub the dart in the foam, and let the frog go. So no, it doesn't kill or even harm the frog in any way. I've used a milder frog, which is blue, to stun monkeys in the past, so that I can move them away from my bananas safely without being bitten and without harming the monkey.
Nothing beats a blowgun when you're trying to be stealthy! Mine is 7' long and made of two interlocking slices of chonta palm.
I'm so glad we don't have cane toads here! Yeek.