Can wild snapping turtles eat fruit?

Answer 1

I have eaten wild snapping turtles on many occasions and must disagree with the answer above. While cleaning turtles from a creek in rural Sumner County, Tennessee I have found both persimmon and pawpaw seeds in their stomach contents. This would seem to me to be a positive indication that, at least on occasion, snapping turtles do indeed eat fruit.

Answer 2

Yes. Alligator snappers even have a fleshy appendage on the tongue that resembles a worm. They lure the fish into the mouth and then SNAP.

Answer 3

No they like small fish or lumps of meat offered from tweezers, careful or they'll eat your fingers to.

Answer 4

I know my turtle does I feed him watermelon, Pears, and some sorts of lettuce do not feed him/her Iceburg lettuce though its bad for them and can make him sick

Answer 5

Of course they're our learning vegetarians

Answer 6

they eat green leaves and vegtables but for fruits i dont know

Answer 7

I work at a science center, and we feed a bit of lettuc to our snapping turtle as a treat once a week.

Answer 8

No