You don't see that very often!
I almost think I should post this one back with the bunny pictures.
Luke has a book about horned-frogs that makes the rotation every once in a while. He and I have talked about how I used to find them as a kid at Mom and Pop's in Breckenridge, but that they are on the endangered list, although according to Texas Parks and Wildlife, they are just threatened. (I thought you could not find them anywhere, but according to this fellow, there are a few places that have them.)
Because of our conversations, I thought when he yells out to me from across the yard at the Bailey's that he caught a horned-frog, he was trying to make a regular lizard into one of those things he had seen in his book. Perhaps I should notify the author of the TCU Magazine article that the Bailey's house is also a place to catch horned-frogs. I have proof:

What is interesting about the Bailey's is that last time we were there we caught a snake. I don't have a picture of it, but I do have a picture of the tarantula he caught later on this evening. That's him in the jar... (The tarantula, not Luke.)

Maybe instead of a fireman/policeman, he should do something in animal sciences?

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As a side note, Luke's book about horned frogs also says that when threatened, horn frogs spray blood from their eyeballs and can cover you from several feet away.
I had no idea.
I decided to stay away from the frog.
Luke, however, waited all evening to see if the frog's eyes would become squirt guns.
It is fun to be a kid! :-)
Jana
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