Winning frogs need fresh legs, he said. Usually they get caught only a day or two before the contest and afterward are carefully put back into their original pond, reservoir or slough ...

These days, competitors include a half-dozen hard-core frog-jumping squads, which roar into town with truckloads of specially selected frogs. John Hand and his Oregon Frog Team arrived with a semi ...

Be a frog and jump into Basho's pond. By Michael Hoffman. SHARE/SAVE . X Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky Threads Email Print Bookmark story Copy link. Oct 19, 2019.

In a pond near you, thousands of small suitors are tuning up their voices for the annual swamp love-in. Though they grow to just 2 inches, their voluble voices make up a well-known spring chorus ...

The secret to frogs' superlative jumping lies in their tendons. Researchers, filming frogs jumping at 500 frames per second with special X-ray technology, show that the frog's tendon stretches as ...

One way is to create a frog pond in your backyard, whether it’s with an unused kiddie pool, PVC pipes hammered into the ground or an in-ground water feature. Here are some suggestions from ...

Hunter Baird, 7, of Lowell, tries to coax his frog into jumping during the annual frog jump at the Lake County Fair in Crown Point on Saturday, ... “We found him in our friend’s pond. ...

One way is to create a frog pond in your backyard, whether it's with an unused kiddie pool, PVC pipes hammered into the ground or an in-ground water feature. Here are some suggestions from Benard ...

"I didn't know frogs were provided," Danielle Koker said. Sydney, who loves to catch frogs, toted her amphibian around the fairgrounds in a netted butterfly cage, dipping it into the pond at the NRA.

Mark Twain's 1865 tale of a frog-jumping contest draws more than 40,000 visitors each May to this historic mining community in the Sierra Nevada foothills. But those hoping to see the star of the ...