When does the mood strike for a dusky gopher frog? The fate of the dusky gopher frog will be the first order of business for the Supreme Court as it opens its new term Monday, one member short and at the center of a national debate over the man nominated to fill that position, Brett M. Kavanaugh. Smith pulls a dusky gopher frog out of a sack in a burrow where the frog was keeping cool. Poitevent notes the specific requirements of what he points out used to be called the Mississippi gopher frog. The dusky gopher frog spends most of its time underground, living in tree stumps and holes created by gopher tortoises, hence its name.

Source: Washington Post September 29, 2018 19:41 UTC