Nessie wrote:Duncan Edwards wrote:The fetish is truly strong with you.
Actually, at the time I didn't know that it was a snapping turtle.
If I started poking him in the jaw, though, wouldn't that make him open his mouth? I don't actually WANT that, do I?
Naw...I got my pictures and then went into the bog and did this.
The mudpit I used for most of this summer, which is in a totally different place, was crawling with these.
These are very cute, only about eight inches in diameter. And if you need to pick one up, which I did once to get it off a busy bike path so it wouldn't get crunched...you just hold them in the middle of the shell so they can't reach you. But they don't get mad easy anyway. They just put their head inside their shells, and they wait for you to set them down.
I love nature!
Nessie
Awww, those guys are cute ^_^ I've shared many of my fave sinking spots with them.
They've been around for about 270 million years. They're nature's toughest little survivors. They've managed to cope with everything the universe throws at them...until we arrived.
Where I live, we've got an ongoing problem with turtles attempting to cross busy highways. They're pretty sturdy, but for obvious reasons, they're not equipped to deal well with vehicular traffic. And their natural habitats have been cut into progressively smaller and smaller pieces by roads. It makes it hard for them to find mates or to move to new places to find food.
When I see them I stop to rescue them. In the long run, it probably doesn't do much good, but at least it made a difference for that turtle that day.
