alligator snapping turtle

What he found was a wild female alligator snapping turtle that was 15 inches long - double the size of the target of his search.

Previous studies that have examined habitat use by the alligator snapping turtle suggest that the microhabitat the species occupies may vary geographically, seasonally, and as a result of the environmental context (e.

Alligator snapping turtle (Macroclemys temminckii) surveys in Louisiana 19962001.

The alligator snapping turtle, North America's largest freshwater turtle, can weigh over 80kg and live to 160 years old.

The common snapping turtle has some distinctive characteristics that set it apart from most other species of turtle, except its closest relative, the alligator snapping turtle.

Mr Hammonds, who lives in Walsall, said the creature was later identified as an alligator snapping turtle, usually found in the Mississippi River.

There are also two pythons, a giant bullfrog that leaps in the air to grab food, a pair of bearded dragons, an alligator snapping turtle, and a great grey owl.

The alligator snapping turtle of the American south is anything but cute, though who'd argue with a creature whose gaping jaws are capable of doing untold damage?

says Garrett, upon sight of the alligator snapping turtle, who's housed in the "swamp," a 1700 square foot greenhouse.

A short list of turtles that are in trouble to one degree or another would include the bog turtle, wood turtle, spotted turtle, Blanding's turtle, red-bellied turtle, eastern and ornate box turtles, Florida softshell turtle, alligator snapping turtle, various map turtles that live in single river systems in the South and the western pond turtle, one of the very few aquatic species found west of the Great Plains.

Keller is v-e-r-y careful when giving a shot to an alligator snapping turtle (right).

Nesting ecology of the alligator snapping turtle (Macroclemys temminckii) along the lower Apalachicola River, Florida.

An alligator snapping turtle measuring 2ft and weighing a whopping 57lbs has been netted by anglers.

But there were also some sightings of rarer species including water voles, otters and bats, and even some seals and a massive north American alligator snapping turtle, BW said.

Watching the hallucinogenic yellow butterflies move in all dancing directions across that black water, it seems that a thou sand or more scents and odors are rolling past in waves of invisible current: sunlit pine needles and poison ivy along with alligator snapping turtle, magnolia, and great blue heron.