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Cyanide is one of the best known of all poisons. Perhaps best known as the suicide pills reputedly carried by secret agents it was also the active ingredient in the gas (Zyklon B) used by the Nazis in extermination camps such as Auschwitz.
With the exception of a few non-poisonous species, all other poison dart frogs also use alkaloid poisons. For example, Anthony's poison arrow frog lives in the forests of Peru and Ecuador. It is dark red or brown, with yellow stripes.It harbours two powerful alkaloids called epibatidine and phantasmidine.ther poison dart frogs are far less toxic than the golden poison frog, and only a handful of species pose a risk to humans. Obtaining the poison for use on darts was a gruesome process, according to an account published in 1978.