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I know but had to research it.
Wrong end. (Well maybe not...) Usually the plastron (bottom shell) is concave in the male so it fits over the females shell. Not sure this is true in snappers as their plastron is (proportionately) smaller than a red ear for example.
Seconded. II had to guess, I'd say "male". Box turtles are much easier to determine. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by billhouk
Ed
Down in south Louisiana that is called supper. One of the happiest Cajun I ever saw was Claude the dragline operator when a snapper was discovered in the sand pit, back when we were building I-10 through New Orleans. He put everything on stop; down off the dragline, grabbed the turtle by the tail and into the back o his pickup. I am sure it was delicious, about everything they cook down there is, and it includes okra
its just soup !
that tastes like chickenQuote:
Originally Posted by sandfly
female snappers have their waste disposal unit near their shell line like this one. The males have it a little farther down the tail.
I don't mean to ask a stupid question, but.......Had to do the research on a snapping turtle?............for school or were you just curious?
I have heard and read that folks in the south eat em, but here in Canada they are now protected because of that. What once was a common find when I was a kid is now not so common. Although we have lots of wet lands, we have much different weather patterns and shorter seasons, which likely adds to the time taken for turtles to reach breeding age, but at one time folks could take them for whatever reasons and nearly wiped them clean out of Ontario.
If I see one on the roads these days, I stop and help it get off the road and continue on it's journey, for without them, others in the nature chain will also be affected. Always loved turtles, but never enough to want to eat one.
researched for the fun of it. Have only eaten snapper once and it was in a stew 45 years ago.