Turtles
- Thread starter Mad Mike
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I spent most of last night trying to identify a turtle from a photograph, and gave up in the end. Not easy. However, if you say which bit of Canada it might help. I'll have a go and get back to you, because your look a lot easier than the little terrapin things I was trying to resolve 
Looks like a Common Snapping Turtle to me. Range certainly includes Canada. Both animals, with one being a bit bigger than the other.
That first one is a lovely brute!
That first one is a lovely brute!
Steady on with the fulsome praise there Jon. Those things only have half as many legs as I'm used to, and they are wet as well. I was expecting to read you telling me how wrong I was (again).
Never mind, since we have our resident 'expert' on all things scaly and insufficiently legged, what's this? It is the one that defeated me (next time I should learn to read the label on the tank it was in
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Are they still eaten? I thought they were getting rare. My parents go on (and on) about how nice green (sea) turtle is from their Bermuda days but it's been strictly banned for years.
Sea turtles are endangered and/or protected (all sea species as far as I know) But snapping turtles are still eaten and still plentiful (to the point of being a nuisance in some areas of the south) They're a freshwater species.
THanks, aye i knew that about the sea turtles (I'm going back over 30 yars when eating them was banned but if you knew the right people at the right restaurant you could still get 'special fish'). I didn't know snappers were plentiful, didn't know they lived so far north either.
