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| Long Lake snapping turtle! I couldn't believe it was real! |
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| Grumpy snapping turtle! |
The first thing to know is to send it in the direction it is headed towards.
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| Tucked in! |
in the car to push it across. The scraping does much less to the turtle than getting smucked by a car!
Of course, the wee ones you can simply lift, by grabbing either side of the shell. The snappers, however, have long necks and will snap at you!
While they cause some people fear, they are endangered.
This video from the Toronto Zoo shows how
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| It's important to send it across in the direction it was headed. Blanding's turtle |
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| Painted turtle |
4 comments:
No turtles here!
Nice shots. Very fascinating post. Would love to see one in the near future.
The turtle in the video was certainly being a good sport about being dragged across the road so many times! Great information!
Interesting! We have gopher tortoises here that are endangered; there are 'tortoise crossing' signs in some places. (I don't think you could lift them, they're huge).
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