Alligator Snapping Turtle vs Common Snapping Turtle

[Major Nikon]

[frogmarch]

1. Very informative and interesting!

Thanks for posting!

[Skittles]

2. wow!!!

LOVE the demonstration

[Art_from_Ark]

3. I wouldn't want to get up close and personal with either one

This song is still rattling around my brain, after all these years:

Once I was swimming across Turtle Creek,
Man them turtles were snapping at my feet,
It sure was hard swimming 'cross that thing,
With both hands holding my ding a ling a ling

[mainer]

4. Can't believe they're holding them!

Snapping turtles have very long, flexible necks and can reach all the way around to bite someone holding them by the shell.

[alarimer]

5. I had no idea that common snapping turtles were more aggressive.

It's obvious from the video. But it probably has a lot to do with the fact that they are active predators, while alligator snapping turtles are ambush predators, meaning they sit still and lure the prey to them. Fascinating.

I still don't want to be be near the business end of either one. I certainly wouldn't go "catfish noodling" anywhere either of them are present.