ranitomeya imitator santa rosa for sale (ADULT)

Description

To attract mates, males will initiate calls while approaching a female. If the female is receptive to the male’s courtship, she will follow him to an oviposition site where they will mate. She will then deposit fertilized eggs on a plant to allow them to develop. The number of tadpoles that successfully hatch and make it to their breeding pool is relatively small, where one study observed a range of 1-4 tadpoles per mated pair.

After mating occurs, the male will guard the fertilized eggs. Upon hatching, the male will transport individual tadpoles to their own respective phytotelma, which are small pools of water within plants.  Additionally, the male will strategically place tadpoles in certain rearing sites, specifically avoiding predators.

After tadpoles are in their rearing sites, the male will call while next to tadpoles which signals to the mother to feed an individual. Tadpole begging, a behavior in which tadpoles vibrate their body, also encourages the mother to provide trophic (eggs specifically for nutrition) eggs.

Female parental care is provided in the form of trophic egg feeding to offspring. After mating, the female will have a surplus of unfertilized eggs, which she provisions to offspring as food that aids in offspring growth and development.

This form of biparental care is not uncommon in poison frogs. Researchers have found that ranitomeya imitator santa rosa for sale that use phytotelma to rear offspring are more likely to exhibit egg-feeding parental care, and that this combination favors the evolution of biparental care in these species. The hormonal regulation of parental care in this species remains somewhat unknown.