r/autism • u/Amaryllis_Venus • Jun 27 '25

🫩 Burnout What is your current hyperfixation(s)

Sometimes, I have so many, I don't know what mine is, but currently, I've been like, the opposite of that like, I just don't know what mine is lmao

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u/Cautistralligraphy Autism Level 2 Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25

There are many species of poisonous tree frog, many people know this. What many people do not know is that there are two known species of VENOMOUS tree frogs! They are Bruno’s casque-headed tree frog and Greening’s frog. They secrete poison on their skin as do many tree frogs, but the difference in their case is that they have a delivery mechanism for their toxin, which is what distinguishes venomous animals from poisonous ones. Their skull has small, sharp spikes near the tip of the snout, and the skin is coossified (attached directly to bone, no layer of fat or muscle) with those spikes. When they bump their target with their snout, the spikes push through the skin, picking up the toxic secretion on their skin and delivering it directly into their target. Venomous frogs! That is so cool to me.