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Lurkenfrau wrote:

No need to "feel creepy" about it, Grimm Analyst. Thanks for your thoughtful reply. And perhaps a mating pair of Folterseele might also be immune to each other's poison...if the female was as attracted to the male as he was to her? Who knows. After watching it again, they mentioned more than once, that it was a 'defense mechanism'...when the female produced the poison. So if the female wasn't in defense mode, and was in mating mode too, then perhaps she wouldn't even be poisonous. Yes, in real poison dart frogs it definitely is a defense mechanism. Guy and gal poison dart frogs manage to get together somehow so, I imagine that love would find a way between a male and female Folterseele, if they could find one  another.

Speaking of which, I had a hunch and was able to confirm that one possible contributing factor in amphibian decline is that certain environmental populants cause male tadpoles to change into females, leading to highly distorted adult sex ratios in the populations of certain frog species. Bella's lonliness has an even deeper tragic significance when considered in that light.