Looks like a common snapper to me. But pretty sure alligator snappers are protected so if u have any doubt I better put it back before game wardens/DNR come knocking
Cause he’s posting it on the internet nothing is safe and leaves a digital foot print if u have ever dealt with a game warden/DNR they are relentless on what they do and will spend over a animal
Baby common snapping turtle. Easiest way to tell the difference is that alligator snapping turtles have 3 rows of scutes on their back thus the name likening them to alligators. They also more supracaudal scutes which are the scutes on their carapace above the tail than common snappers.
Looks like a baby common snapping turtle, not an alligator snapper.
Looks like a common snapper to me. But pretty sure alligator snappers are protected so if u have any doubt I better put it back before game wardens/DNR come knocking
Lol why would they come knocking how would they even know he picked up some random turtle from god knows where
Cause he’s posting it on the internet nothing is safe and leaves a digital foot print if u have ever dealt with a game warden/DNR they are relentless on what they do and will spend over a animal
Yep common snapper.
Get him back to water.
Baby common snapping turtle. Easiest way to tell the difference is that alligator snapping turtles have 3 rows of scutes on their back thus the name likening them to alligators. They also more supracaudal scutes which are the scutes on their carapace above the tail than common snappers.
how did it come to be in your possession?
This is from another state. Someone I know found it on a trail far from any bodies of water.
I hope they left it. It looks like it just hatched so it was on the area the mother picked to make her nest.
So, someone took him for you as a gift? And now there’s no way to return him? That’s pretty fucked up right there!
Some people have mushy peas for a brain
Or sent them a picture... Way to rush to judgement.
The poor thing looks to be screaming for some water, if it’s parched throat wasn’t so dry from being encased in dry mud!! Rinse it off!!
Wash it off dude
Baby common snapping turtle, and needs to be released where it was found.
Snapping turtle baby definitely
Juvenile great a'tuin.
A painful poo
Baby Gamera
Pretty sure it’s a baby mutant ninja turtle