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Are male alligator snapping turtles larger then female alligator snapping turtles?
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∙ 14y ago
No. Female Alligator snapping turtles are larger than male Alligator Snappers.
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How long are alligator snapping turtles?
Alligator snapping turtles may be just inches long at birth, but as adults they can grow to a length of 2-5 feet. Larger cases are possible, but rare.
What is the difference between a snapping turtle and an alligator snapping turtle?
Alligator snapping turtles are larger and have much stronger bites. Alligator snapping turtle also live longer than common snapping turtles. Alligator snapping turtles can live to be 100 at the longest while the common snapping turtle lives to be around 70 at the maximum. Alligator snapping turtles have smaller shells and bigger heads. Common snapping turtles have the oppisite.
How do you tell the difference between a baby common snapping turtle and a baby alligator snapping turtle?
Aligator snapping turtles and regular snapping turtles can be told apart by the tail on the aligator snapping turtle, which is longer with jagged spines. Its tail resembles an aligators thus the name aligator snapping turtle. It also has a more defined shell when its young so it will have larger looking spines than a regular snapping turtle. Hope this helps. Common snapping turtles have a pinkish mouth and alligater snapping turtles have brownish mouth
What turtles would do well with other fish?
It depends on the size of the fish and the turtle. Most turtles will not try an eat a fish that is larger than them. Of course no snapping turtles they will pick at larger fish untill they die.
What is the scientific name for a snapping turtle?
There are two extant species of the family Chelydridae: Chelydra serpentina, the Common Snapping Turtle, and its larger relative Macrochelys temminckii, the Alligator Snapping Turtle (although the monotypic Asian genus Platysternon has at times been included in this group). Both are endemic to the Western Hemisphere.
Is the male or female slider turtle larger during mating?
Female turtles, regardless of "breed", are generally the larger of male or female.
What animal eats the American alligator?
Adult gators can be preyed on by larger gators and occasionally pythons (though large gators often will make a meal out of the big snake than the snake will be making a meal out of it!!). Young gators or hatchlings are targets for snapping turtles, egrets and herons, carnivorous fish like the alligator gar and catfish, other gators, etc.
Does anything eat a wide mouth bass?
Largemouth are prey for many species. As fingerlings, alrge fish, including larger bass feed on them. As juveniles, herons and otters feed on them, as well as snapping turtles. Adults have few enemies, man, otters, snapping turtles, alligators.
What animals eat sunfish?
Larger fish, alligators, otters, herons, minks, osprey, bald eagles, water snakes, snapping turtles.
How do you tell a snapping turtle from a box turtle?
Snapping Turtles have...large, bulky, headsreally long tailsgrey skinridged and spiky shellssharp, pointed beakswild ones usually act aggressive with the signature snapthey can not with draw their head into their shelllong necksthere is a gap between the head and the top of the shell
Is there a special way to tell the difference from a male and female alligator?
Males are larger, and somewhat darker in color.
What are the different kinds of alligator?
The Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis) and the larger American alligator (Alligator mississippensis).
