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Well..look at what crawled out of my creek (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter KC Foggin
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Hi KC
Do you know what it is? Foot seems to have healed though.
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Do you know what it is? Foot seems to have healed though.
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Evanji Axu
Spiteful Cynic
Reminds me of the snapping turtle that mysteriously appeared on my lawn once.
And we're at least half a kilometer away from the river.
And we're at least half a kilometer away from the river.
Stewart J.
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Nice one KC not something you'd want to handle though, seem to have a nasty temper? http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Chelydra_serpentina.htmlStewart
Isurus
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KCFoggin said:
may it have been getting out to lay eggs? if you find a big mound of disturbed earth one day that might be it?
I read once about an aligator snapper escaping a zoo in australia in a flood and it was recaptured in a sewer 20-odd years later - they thought it may have been eating rats and feral cats :eek!:
http://forum.kingsnake.com/asia/messages/922.html
I thought about that as they don't normally come out on land and it is still the egg laying season for them down here. Actually til November. No mounds on first look but I will investigate further tomorrow.Isurus said:
After thought. The creek is about 5 feet down and rather shallow right now. Would they lay their eggs along the banks of the creek?
There used to be a snapping turtle who regularly crawled up a hill to lay her eggs in my backyard (from a pond below) the first week of May every spring. This is in mid-northwest Indiana. Inevitably, the raccoons found those eggs everytime and ate them up. But she came back every May for at least five years in a row.....haven't seen her for about three years now. I kept my distance.....but she was fascinating to watch.
Marianna
Marianna
stronzo
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It reminds me of when I used to keep these brutes. I decided to try them in an outdoor pool one summer. A couple of days later there was a knock at the door and an old woman was standing there holding my 'cute tortoise'. I am surprised that she did not lose a body part? Thing is that it must have climbed over a 6 foot fence to get out onto the road.
keith richter
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Very nice KC! Did it hiss at you? When I see them they hiss at me. And i back off! (o)<
motacilla oenenthe
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people still hunt them for food in some parts of the sout hand midwest. supposedly very good eating (though i wouldent know)
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