Baby Chelydra serpentina (snapping Turtle)

I simply took pictures and let it on it's way. Enjoy.

http://www.reptard.info/nature/snapper.jpg

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http://www.reptard.info/nature/snapper2.jpg

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Here is where it lives, About 1500 feet off my back door step.

http://www.reptard.info/nature/creek.jpg

Nice find he's so tiny. I love to find turtles, second favorite thing to find after hots. I haven't found a snapping turtle in years so I'm a little jealous but super excited for your find. :D

I never find the little ones, just the big ones that try to take my hand off! Threads like this are probably my favorite, I love field herping and miss not getting to do it since I moved to CO from northeast KS.

Whenever I go to the creek I try to catch some and check them out
I remember there was this one with a black Z on it's belly :D

I've pulled a few off the high way just out of town. And I see them at the lake and farm pond where I go fishing. Awesome animals, though a little scary when they are bigger than a dinner plate :)

This little one was doing a number on the little fish all bunched up in the shallow pools.

Snapping turtles are like monitor lizards with a shell, very intelligent, top predator, insatiable eaters, tough as nails and not afraid of anything.

This is my friend Steve with his big boy "Tank".....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4NEFLdlAGs