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“We want to create an atmosphere that is attractive to both the serious and novice baseball fan. From the diehard, longtime TCU fan to the family of four that is attending their first college baseball game, we want everyone to walk away from a TCU baseball game saying they had a great time.”
~ Jim Schlossnagle
What The Heck Is A Horned Frog? • The scientific name for this Texas reptile is phrynosoma cornutum; in Greek, phrynos means “a toad” and soma means “body”; in Latin, conutus means “horned.” • Their primary diet is red harvester ants. They typically eat 80-100 a day. • The typical horned frog is three to five inches long. • Horned frogs are cold-blooded animals and have an unusual pineal gland, resembling a “third eye” on the top of the head, which zoologists believe is part of their system of thermoregulation. • When angered or frightened, horned frogs can squirt a fine, four-foot stream of blood from their eyes. • The horned frog was named State Reptile of Texas in 1992.
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