cooter

Menu includes venison, quail, cooter, frog legs and alligator.

The red-bellied cooter is a state and federally listed endangered species.

A “cooter” is a box-tortoise, and the noun is turned into a verb with an ease characteristic of the mountaineers.

The owl is hooting to the night, The cooter crawling o'er the bank, And in that pond the flashing light Tells where the alligator sank.

The owl is hooting to the night, The cooter crawling o’er the bank, And in that pond the flashing light Tells where the alligator sank.