Google has some mixed answers and I can’t work out what is right or wrong.
What does everyone think?
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Are you planning a murder?
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What do you mean by “the most deadly frog” exactly?
The frog with the highest toxicity per gram is Phyllobates terribilis, but very few people die from contact with them, as they are very rare, live in a few very remote, rugged areas, and are not toxic when raised in captivity (they get their toxins from their wild diet).
The frog species that causes the most human deaths probably has a better claim on “most deadly” but I don’t know what that would be. Maybe something like Bufu marinus that is big and congregates on roads causes traffic fatalities? Perhaps some species of frog that can transmit Salmonella to humans that handle them? Perhaps something (again Bufo marinus) that people abuse as a drug source?
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Goden poison dart?
Phyllobates terribilis like I remember…
That’s what I was thinking. I suggest not using frogs, but calling the police and confessing, just to get an effective method offing someone.
If we’re counting non-human casualties, my bet would be on the cane toad, both through means of toxicity and its effect as an invasive species displacing native amphibians in the places where it has been introduced. Unlike poison dart frogs, which are relatively rare, cane toads are abundant, and many species that predate on other amphibians don’t necessarily know to avoid cane toads (which don’t even give the courtesy of sporting aposematic colors like the dart frogs), which leads to many more poisoning incidents. It’s a mistake that many only make once.
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These adorable little buggers the golden poison dart frog
They produce enough toxin to kill 20,000 mice or 10-20 people
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Please don’t kill anyone
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Easy: Hynotoad.
EDIT: Also is this for like a generic cool fun fact or are you planning on killing someone?
If so, just hire an assassin. Much more cheap.
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It doesnt rily look like a burger.
Probably 
Damm didnt think abt that 
Dunno. I might just spend a couple thousand to go and find the frog or go get someone of the street and give him a gun. I dont think any of those ideas are ethical either way.
PS: I was just asking for a project.
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Hmmmm… too vague. Is the project a murder?
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Hey all. While I fully understand that the jokes about murder are just that - jokes - please keep in mind that this forum welcomes people of all ages and backgrounds. Not everyone may follow the subtext. And a bit can become unfunny when pushed too far.
It’s no problem for things to get silly but excessive posts that don’t contribute to the subject make the forums harder to moderate. Thank you.
ps. I’ve also used sarcasm on the forum plenty of times, but I’ve been trying out using “tone tags” to indicate the intended tone of a post. eg, “I love it when frogs pee on my hands (sarcastic)”
I’m surprised nobody suspected the “project” of being a school assignment, given that the school year has recently started.
No offense intended. It was just a joke alluding, perhaps too elliptically, to the recent mushroom murder that was discussed here on the forum.
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wait, WHAT
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I think the deadliest frog is the one that eats the highest number of other living beings, and I bet an individial frog of most species can gobble more tiny creatures in a single night than the total number of humans ever killed by all frogs combined.
I still don’t know which frog species this would be though. Bullfrogs seem to eat a lot, but since their prey is larger, the number of lives taken may actually be smaller?
Now, if we’re talking deadliest to humans I think it would be necessary to subtract the number of human lives saved by said frog species. For example, number of people poisoned by handling a toxic frog species, minus number of people who didn’t die of the malaria that would have been carried by the mosquitoes the frog gobbled up. A difficult figure to know precisely, but I’m sure it would always be well into negative numbers.
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jeez that is bad
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