When UC Davis neurobiologist and animal behaviorist Eva Fischer and her lab displayed poison dart frogs at a recent Bohart Museum of Entomology open house, it marked a Bohart first: the first time that vertebrates shared the spotlight with invertebrates. "What are vertebrates doing here in an insect museum?" Fischer asked the crowd. "Because they eat insects. That's why they're here. The poison dart frogs eat spicy ants and other tropical insects. In the wild, they're toxic. In captivity they...
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