FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- Spirit squads at some colleges and universities haul their lions and tigers and bears around the football field.
At TCU, home of college football's No. 5-ranked Horned Frogs, they may soon have much smaller critters to show off.
The school awaits state permits for it to keep two state-protected horned frogs, both of which are now infants. The Daily Skiff, TCU's student newspaper, reports that the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department issues the educational display permit only to educational institutions and only if the display is used to educate about the species and concerns over its diminishing numbers.
Red harvester ants, the reptiles' favored food source, have become scarcer in recent years with the influx of imported fire ants.
