Wichita Eagle: A bullfrog peers out from the shallows in a Kansas wetlands area.
Rafe Brown on Monday will head from Lawrence, where he teaches herpetology and other subjects at the University of Kansas. He'll go to islands in the Philippines, where, among other things, he'll catch frogs.
With other scientists, he'll tramp through jungles and climb volcanic island mountains looking for frogs, toads and other creatures of nature.
For scientists like him, studying frogs is not some sort of offbeat hobby....