Its uses its webbed feet to push its self through the water.

No. They can live for quite a few years actually.

it depends. they can be. it will hurt badly

No, it does have canines because turtles don't have teeth but instead have a sharp beak

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a male weighs 200 hundred pounds or over

There are 24 species of crocodile.

Chop up celery and lettuce

They will also eat earth worms and small fish depending on what size they are. but if you put it in front of them they will probably eventually start eating it.

I am sorry, but I extremely disagree. Turtle are omnivores when adults. Not strictly herbivorous. When younger, they are pretty much carnivores. I suggest the ratio of meat to veggies as a 5:3 on an adult snapping turtle, however, this ratio works quite well with pretty much any other adult turtle, including painted, red eared, yellow bellied, soft shelled, and others. You should also put plenty of calcium in the water, especially for snappers since they have an extremely thick shell, so that they don't suffer from calcium malnutrition, which weakens the shell and in some cases, kills the turtle. For any turtle, though I doubt it will make a difference in snappers, feed it a bit of koi or cichlid chow, because they are packed with carotene, which brings out reds and yellows on the shell and body beatifully. Spinach has it in it also, but I wouldn't feed it too much of it. For a daily diet, I suggest you feed it a mix of foods. I mix my turtles diet and give him reptomin pellets, a bit of freeze dried shrimp and krill, mealworms, freshwater snails(which have calcium in their shells as a bonus), minnows, cichlid sticks, which I break each stick into forths for easier swallowing, chopped lettuce, and I make sure there's aquatic plants available at all times in his cage. They seem to always know when they need veggies. Once their over 3 inches and have been weaned onto lettuce that is. Try not to feed it too much peaches, spinich, or apples, because these kinds of food drain the turtle of calcium. In fact, I don't recommend feeding them those at all. Also, I don't suggest hand feeding snapping turtles. Ever. No matter how long people have been breeding them, snappers are aggresive by nature. When they're younger, they're a bit more friendly, but don't get too attatched, because they will get meaner and more territorial. Other turtles, especially red eared, are very friendly, and I suggest feeding them bits of food by hand. At first, they will be kind of curious, or maybe even afraid, and smell the scent of your hand and the food. Eventually they will gladly even take a fish out of your fingers. This is called scent training, and it's especially important if you ever want to take them out of their cage.

Box turtles, land tortoises, and any aquatic turtles have the ability to put their legs, arms, and head in side of their shell. The shell is the turtles protector/house if someone threw a turtle it would go into its shell and the shell would hopefully protect it from the hard ground. Most turtles the shell is Greenish, Grayish, or maybe other different colorful colors and those colors are usually the almost exact thing that is probably under water. Like seaweed, Rocks, other fish, and ect. so they stay by the objct so it is almost nearly impossible to see.

Yes snapping turtles can contract various diseases depending on their environment and lifestyle. Common diseases among snapping turtles include:

• Viruses such as the Ranavirus
• Parasites such as flukes tapeworms and nematodes
• Bacterial infections such as shell rot
• Fungal infections such as shell rot and eye infections

In addition snapping turtles can contract a variety of other diseases including respiratory infections skin disorders and even cancer. It is important to be aware of the signs and symptoms of these diseases as well as the potential causes and treatments in order to ensure the health and well-being of your snapping turtle.

Yes if they get mad at you .

I just adopted a Florida Snapping Turtle, someone had for ten years. It is about 8 inches long. It is still kind of nippy, I'm trying to socialize it. I hold it a lot and I just never put my fingers in front of it. If it gets upset about something I slowly put it down or I wrap it in a T-Shirt.

You can hold a snapping turle by lifting its hind legs off the ground (by the tail) and sliding your other hand under its plastron (botton side of its shell).

a snapping turtle has a life span of up to 57 years.

if you want to check then go to the website below:

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/natbltn/400-499/nb486.htm

hope i helped!

Usually only alligator snappers do, but I found a normal baby snapper in the water once

We saved an egret from the mouth of a snapping turtle. I don't know why the turtle hung onto the bird's foot for as long as it did, nor if it would have eaten the bird. I just know it held it's foot in it's mouth for a long time while the egret struggled to get free, until we rescued it.

Snapping turtles mate from May through November

You can tell by their size and color.

Yes it does...it is a vertebrate

yes. alligator snapping turtles are endangered and should be protected.

Turtles really are not a very smart type of animal. Turtles just swim and walk around in their environment. Some people have turtles as pets.

yes cause i got 4 sub adults and one baby and they get along just fine- i got Florida snapping turtles and they are beast

They will eat anything that comes close enough to their mouth to snap at, including some things that might not be too good for them to eat.

In the wild they eat fish, birds, small mammals, insects, lizards, frogs/toads, plants, and just about anything else that gets too close.

In captivity, feed them turtle pellets from the pet store. This will give the turtle all the nutrients they need. For an occasional treat throw in crickets, meal worms, bloodworms, nightcrawlers, or small fish. I wouldn't feed them goldfish because they add a chemical at the fish farm to help the goldfish shine, and I doubt that it's good for the turtle to eat.

no, it is illegal.

maybe they live mostly every where were's there's water

Not really, its the life cycle. the fish breeds, the turtle eats some of the fish, the fish left breed more fish! its how life goes. an example might be.... the mama bug has baby bugs, the baby bugs grow up, the frog eats some of the bugs, the snake eats the frog, the snake dies. then the bugs left, have more bugs, and it happens all over again.

Baby snappers eat bugs, small fish, worms, lettuce, or just about anything they can fit in their mouths, so be careful where you keep them!

Well I had a baby snapping turtle and if you found him in a habitat then you should truly leave him if you care for him, but if you found him in a strange place alone then you should contact your local wildlife sanctuary they may take him. They usually eat the things above but if yours does not seem to eat like mine get him to the sanctuary FAST! Or force feed him because mine would not eat and it died the next day.

Get a book from your local library on care of snapping turtles. Call your wild fish and game department in you state and see if your even supposed to be messing with them in the first place then you can figure out what to feed them. Not the best idea to get them used to you if they are from the wild because it takes away there natural instincts to forrage for themselves and what happens when you no longer can care for them do they starve now. Do the right thing and check it out .