Turtles

[Mad Mike]

Can anyone ID a couple of different ones from |Canada

the second one was attracted by the water filter

Mike

 

[Harvestman]

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

 

[Harvestman]

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!

 

[JonathanD]

What he said.

 

[Harvestman]

What he said.

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 )

 

[santaman2000]

And they're delicious.

 

[Rod Paradise]

And they're delicious.

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.

 

[Mad Mike]

Thanks for the replies. I saw them in the Algonquin Provincial park Ontario.

This one was in Kent

Mike

 

[santaman2000]

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.

 

[Rod Paradise]

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.

 

[santaman2000]

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.

To be honest, I didn't know they were that far north either.

 

[ZEbbEDY]

i like turtles!