Ecuadorean Tree Frog

 
   
 

The tropical frog Epipedobates tricolor is the original source of the chemical epibatidine, which Abbott chemists converted into the drug ABT-594. Picture courtesy of Scott P. McRobert, Ph.D., of St. Josephís University (Philadelphia, PA).

See the Rainforest Alliance site:  http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/kzf.html for more on tropical frogs