Late last Friday afternoon, just about to relax into the weekend, I checked to see what was new and ran smack into a story about a cruel tradition here in the American South: frog gigging. "The Old ...

Casey Neighbours has a tip for anyone new to frog gigging: be wary of lying eyes. Neighbours zeroed in recently on what he believed to be a big ol' bullfrog on a pond in Lebanon and was in for a big ...

Frog legs are one of nature’s delicacies. Contrary to some reports, they don’t taste like chicken; they taste like frogs. The white meat is sweet and succulent. They’re especially good when dipped in ...

The rising moon on a recent night silhouetted a patch of what passes for high ground in the half-water/half-land world of a bay-rimming estuary. The slight elevation, covering an area about the size ...

All frog gigging is fun, especially in Northeast Florida, with its multitude of lakes and rivers, backwater sloughs and swamps full of the good-eating amphibians. But I doubt there is a better way of ...

Continuing her occasional exploration into matters of animals and human society, Barbara J. King takes a look at last week's NPR story on... Late last Friday afternoon, just about to relax into the ...