Alligator Snapping Turtle, The Best Pet MONSTER?
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- čas přidán 10. 04. 2020
- Alligator snapping turtles are probably the most hardcore of all turtles. They are absolute MONSTERS. But, as monsters go, they are not wholly unreasonable to keep. So is the alligator snapping turtle the best pet monster for you? To figure this out we went to New England Reptile Distributors ( / nerdreptilesinc ) to check out these absolutely incredible, and a bit terrifying, wonderful giant turtles.
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Clint, the best pet human?
Well hi there!
Hello, forgive me if I ask you, Clint. But I have a question. Is it true that a Hybrid of Common Snapping Turtle and Alligator Snapping Turtle really exist ?
Maybe. Sounds like a bad idea. Put that head on a long neck...
Clint what is the best pet dog you could possibly get?? Tegu...
If Pokémon were in the real world, you’d totally be a Pokémon professor.
Absolutely.
Pokemon Go?
@@tonatiuhnino3711 You should know that there's more to Pokemon other than Pokemon go
@@animaliasking3431 I know that.
@@tonatiuhnino3711 Yeah but why did you just go "Pokemon Go?"
Clint, I think you're one of the few people who can describe an animal as a monster and have it sound like a compliment.
Oh, it is!
You'd like Jeremy Wade :)
i’m also one of those people 😂 i’ll be like ah what a beast! with the biggest smile on my face
Necrophilia isn’t that bad to be honest.
Alligator Snapping Turtle, the most dangerous rock in the world.
Arguably
@@GayleenFroese great, now we not only have to deal a certain virus that caused a pandemic, we also have to deal with angry stone fish!? life is rough.
Gayleen Froese I was about to comment about Stonefish
Stonefish enters the chat*
@@ibic2441 tonnes of people got the virus and arent dead. It's all a power grab
He looks so cute and derpy with his mouth closed...then he opens his mouth and it sounds like he’d screaming “I WILL END YOUR BLOODLINE”
Dio brando be like
"I WILL EAT YOUR TOES!!!"
"They're probably designed by a 13 year old"
I'm pretty sure they were lol
Several million years ago.
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yuh! when god made those, he still wasnt quite over his dinsaur phase yet.
they were designed by nintendo
That turtle looks like he's just waiting for someone to get the joke...
"iliketurtles"
TELL me I'm not the only one who hrerd that
Turtles are great!
@@ClintsReptiles I agree!
It was a meme a while back and it was all I could hear for the rest of the video
I noticed it
I ALSO HEARD THE ZOMBIE KID
I'm glad to be among people of culture xD
When you're a human with fingers, the alligator snapping turtle's mouth is a scary place.
Ava Conroy that’s what the turtles are for.
As kids in Jacksonville, FL, my brother and I would catch them and bring them home in shopping carts, only to be told we couldn't keep them. We'd disconsolately take them back to the creeks and ditches and let them go. They were probably 75 to 100 lb monsters, so big it would take a 9 and an 11 year together to pick them up. How each of us has 10 fingers to this day is a miracle.
Now thats a childhood and a half!
God: "Give it bolt cutters for a mouth....but give it handles"
Angel: "why?"
God: "The humans, they'll need it"
Luckily they’re not aggressive like the common one
Lmao
They knew we would try and touch it anyway
Im just picturing cavemen using these turtles to bust up rocks now lol
@@gabesawyer4203 theyre not actively aggressive like most common snapping turtles because theyre ambush predators who use a lure waying for fish to come up to them, but if you put any part of you in front of its face its going to attack with much more ferocity than a common snapping turtle ever could. But then again like i was saying earlier at least they wont be trying their hardest to attack you on their own sticking their necks out to the side (but then again AGAIN some of them are chill with being handled and wouldnt try to bite people, ive never seen a alligator snapper that wasnt ready to bite 24/7 when it was handled)
"Heinous bait" be like when you find a baby Ackie in a pet shop and 12 months later find out its really a Nile monitor that's taken over your house
That's ridiculous. Idk how you would even get them confused
@@scottvonnahme3377 called a joke
Imagen if this actually happened lmao
@@liamking2204 yeah I would hope so, but there's no accounting for some peoples poor decisions 😂😂
Scott Vonnahme r/woooosh
When you have a pet as a child that could possibly outlive your children.
no1bandfan Easy to outlive something within biting distance when your face is basically what first responders use to cut into cars.
@@dboot8886 instead of the jaws of life these happen to be the jaws of death
I can’t imagine trying to take this thing to the vet.
“Hi, can I get a check up for my turtle?”
“Yes of course, could we get a look at it- OH MY GOD!”
LMAO
"Yeah he has a little bloating so I need you to run some test. Btw he will bite and make sure to wear iron fist!"
@@bryn1063 haha
lol good luck with the Popsicle stick in the mouth to look down the throat thing.
@@bryn1063 I don't think iron will protect you form its bite im guessing titanium will be required
I'm still waiting for "Chickens, the best pet reptile?".
A lot of my friends and family are getting chickens again...
@@ClintsReptiles Chickens are great.
Silkis are awesome pet chickens. So are Chochins (probably butchered the spelling)
@@LongBow-rg3vu I had Ameraucana and a Rhode Island Red.
THEY TASTE GREAT!!
The way he smiles when telling how much pain an animal could inflict on him is just awesome
I love that the turtle is just sitting there hoping that Clint sticks his finger in there for a snack
Once I met a common one, the one with the long neck. He would snap anything poked into his tank but, when his owners took him out he was just like a puppy. Scoot around and was very friendly
My friends common is like a puppy as well. Almost makes you forget the damage he could do... ALMOST
There's a GIANT wild common snapping turtle that hangs out where I fish on the Red Cedar River, and she's used to people, seems to like hanging out, and is very non-threatening in her behavior. I call her Queen Lovechunks. I've given her a few bluegills, but next time I see her I'll give her some fruit!
Tank means food, outside means play.
I love how the snapping turtle gets a higher score than a tegu
It is much easier in a lot of ways than a tegu.
@@ClintsReptiles and easier to handle than a gecko
Depending on the gecko. It would be nice if tokays had safe to hold handles like this...
I actually cared for a hatchling alligator snapper for a few months awhile ago. It was found in the wild in mid-Michigan, where they are not native. There was nobody else who could take it in over the winter, so i took the little bugger home. It was only a touch bigger than a half-dollar coin. I set it up in a ten gallon aquarium with plenty of hiding spots and some plants; fed it rosies and turtle pellets. In the spring, one of my coworkers mentioned that someone she knew at a rescue down in Alabama was coming up and that he could take the snapper back when he left. So, that's where it lives now.
Good on you :)
It's actually pretty cool that there might be a few breeding size individuals up that far, and I assume they live in a deep river. They have been known to spend their lives gradually moving up river.
They wouldn't survive out here in Michigan. Temperatures get WELL below freezing in winter, and just about everything freezes. These guys are from warmer climes down in the southern region and wouldn't stand much of a chance.
I live in New Orleans and actually found a tiny hatchling in a pool skimmer back in 2015. The pool was right next to a canal. He was almost solid black and pretty cute. A little bit bigger that a quarter. Gave him to a pet shop near me . They specialize in reptiles
3:14 I love watching him walk across the table with his mouth open! He looks like a bulldozer had a baby with a freaking army tank!!
Should’ve been called “Is bowser the right pet reptile”
To be honest, it does look like it's out to murder a plumber and kidnap a princess.
Great video, Clint. "Heinous bait" is the perfect description for their worm like tongue. Prehistoric looking beasts, for sure.
Thank you. I'm just telling it like it is 😉
When I younger, probably seven to eight years old, my family was driving down a dirt road, one that experiences traffic more than the average dirt road, and I had everyone STOP! There was an alligator snapping turtle in the middle of the dirt road, just sitting there, kinda looking around, and being the animal lover I've always been, I wanted to help the prehistory beast out! They were about the size of the ones you guys were handling, and I picked them up pretty much instinctively like you showed off. I carried them over toward the side of the road, the side he was facing beforehand, but then they lunged at my neck, so I yanked my head back, moved them as far forward from myself as reasonable, and gently tossed them over the low wire fence. They landed in some marshy dirt, and just sat there with their mouth open, and I considered that a job well done, even if my family would've preferred if I didn't handle that big fella at all.
I've told this simple story time and time again, but it's one of my favorite wildlife memories, because it's not everyday that you come across a creature as intimidating as that, yet I had no fear, and still don't have any! I hope you enjoyed this brief story. :D
I picked up and moved a huge common snapping turtle in sixth grade because it was in the middle of the field where we were having gym class. My teacher looked pretty amazed.
@@ClintsReptiles | I've handled a couple very small common snapping turtles as well, and I'm yet to be bitten by a turtle! Hopefully it stays that way. And yeah, it's always very satisfying to see the reactions of people when you're very calmly handling what's basically a modern dinosaur.
Drako Wulf I’m kind of doubting the story ever happening.
@@therealshino4607 | Okay? It's a pretty basic story to lie about. I basically wanted to be what Coyote Peterson is when I was younger, and he experiences less likely things on a daily basis.
Zuma Dude ok? nobody really cares if you're skeptical 😂 it's not like this is a rare event
Alligator Snapping Turtle = a real life Dreadnaw.
No it's a portable Gamera.
Thats what the Pokémon was based on.
interesting fact: Alligator snapping turtle, Macrochelys temminckii, has a cousin closer than the common snapper, which is Macrochelys suwanniensis aka Suwannee snapping turtle from Suwannee River.
Very cool fact! Thanks for sharing.
woaw thanks mate
why havent i heard about this
Aw I love these big dudes. They're just living their turtle lives just vibing and having either all the chill or none of it.
Snapping turtle: *:V*
Clint: *:D*
HOW DO I LIKE THIS MORE THAN ONCE?
Share it with everyone you know 😉
Headcanon:
Clint is actually the “i like turtles” kid from way back when.
So?? I like turtles, okay?
Clint's Reptiles hahahah!!!! ❤️
@@ClintsReptiles So does a friend of mine, and your enthusiasm talking about them is great!
Alright clint, real talk. When are we going to get the kimodo dragon as a pet video? We want you to crush all of our dreams of it getting a high score xD
LOL! My favorite quote from any book about Komodo dragons went something like, “Their bites are notoriously hard to treat. There is a well known case of a man dying in Paris two years after he had been bitten.”
5:13 clint: this is how you manhandle a turtle
turtle: *sad turtle face*
Hey Clint, thanks to you I have fallen in love with reptiles and a few months ago got my first reptile. Today I was out in my yard and found an Alabama black king snake, and instead of running away, I took pictures and admired it and put it back . So, thanks
These are my favorite kind of stories!
Thanks, I e also recently begun herping around my area, which gives me something to do with the quarantine. It’s funny because I can’t imagine my life without my reptile obsession, even though I didn’t know about the hobby 4 months ago.
Clint, the best pet human?
"Well hi there! I'm Gus Gus, and I'm here with Clint, my goofy looking human, to ask one question..."
Clint's Reptiles ha ha your so goofy and funny!!
@@ClintsReptiles well the real question is: what would Gus Gus rate YOU?
@@frostbitetheannunakiiceind6574 no
Frostbite The Badass Ice Carnotaurus that’s a yikes from me homie
When I was 8 years old, my neighbor found an alligator snapping turtle nest mowing his yard and gifted me a hatchling. My parents freaked out but I cuddled that thing like a baby. My parents had no interest in getting a proper set up, and looking back I really wish I had had the ability to give it a better life than a cardboard box. Eventually it escaped and was lost in the house for over a year and found in the basement where it had been feasting on crickets that plagued us, which is better than the ground beef my mom was trying to feed it. We released it back into a local lake soon after finding it. I miss that little turtle.
Ho do you not find a turtle in your own house for an entire year?
Yeah that story was made up
So you couldn’t find an alligator snapping turtle for a year? That seems kind of made up
@@474yx a small hatchling that could theoretically stand still for years and doesn't make any noise, not that unbelievable
@@474yx yeah turtles are VERY quiet. Like scary quiet. If you don't beileve it then you've never had a turtle before 🤣🤣
Bowser from super Mario got to hang with Clint for awhile, huh? Or maybe bowser jr
Both!
Where's Coyote Peterson when ya need him?
Not him. Anybody but him.
@@FilmDragons what's wrong with Coyote?
SuperMarioPro It is mostly due to most things he does nowadays are staged, and he puts hself in harms away. In addition to that, I have seen several people who have said they gotten a fear of hers because of some of Coyote Peterson's videos. For example, I breed abronia graminea (Mexican arboreal alligator lixards). Some one who once was over asked what are they, and when I said alligator lizards, they got scared and backed away. When I asked what's wrong, they say they have seen those on Brave Wilderness, and that they bite.
yung Greivous I understand he aims to educate. But the way his videos are right now, they end up making people fearful of pretty safe animals. I just wish he would be clear that they aren’t normally aggressive or dangerous.
@@FilmDragons i find it quite clear that hes only ever bitten by animals when he grabs them and makes them bite him. He always tells the camera that the animals are often times not aggressive. I find that he simply just shows what to do if bitten or stung by an animal and nobody should own or interact with animals not knowing what they are capable of.
That tail is so endearing! Reminds me of the reverse hippo video that Zefrank just posted.
I'll have to check that out!
I remember one we found while fishing in New Jersey, he was only about 2" in shell diameter and his bite still sucked!!
Don't put your hand in there!
@@ClintsReptiles but the worm.. it was so tempting!! Lol
That's how they getcha!
A Gaurd Turtle "Set and forget" for every unguarded home.
I am so happy that my favorite turtle is actually showing on this channel.
You have good taste!
ghost 48218 yes it’s my second favorite just shy behind the mata mata turtle
This is a monster.
Turtle: :O
"Wiggling that tongue around" was the most laugh out loud moment I've had with this channel
Now that we know your style, hopefully we can get you again 😉
OMG 💕💕 I miss my baby. I live in Louisiana (where they are a native species) and found a small injured baby alligator snapping turtle. I took him in and had him for about 10 years. I loved him SO much, but eventually even the enclosures I made myself were not big enough for him. I got in touch with wildlife fisheries and was able to get Justin Turtlelake into a conservation program.
He made it out pretty good, had a loving mother for 10 years then got a girlfriend and eventually was released back into the wild!
"because alligator snapping turtles are actually illegal in Utah" DAMN YOU MITT ROMNEEEEEY !
...He's a Senator in the Federal Government.
He literally has zero actual say in Utah's own state laws.
Common snappers are already an invasive species there. And you... protest this idea?
@@brandonbrown6922 it's a joke
@@dboot8886 where the heck do they live? Isn't Utah mostly desert and salt flats anyway? Sorry I'm from Missouri where we have too much water most of the time and both types of snapping turtles
@@OtterTreySSArmy They live mostly in the lower half of the Mississippi and the rivers and creeks that feed in to it. But they can be found as far east as Georgia and the Florida panhandle and west in to east Texas, parts of southeast Texas, and some of Oklahoma.
Can you do a video on the common snapping turtle please?
For sure!
I just love how the turtle has its mouth open through out this like its saying "Rawrrrrrrrr"
Good thing nature balances snapping turtles' stats of range/damage, so they arent too op XD
I feel like a few million years ago when everything was larger because of the higher oxygen levels, these kind of turtles were probably bigger then any human today.
I had one these monsters as a kid, he had an awesome enclosure. Caught him fishing in a farm pond. Around 3-4 lbs. He spent around 2-3 years with us. He had some issues including mouth damage and shell damage. Once he had healed up, I let him get to around 10-12 lbs before letting him go back into the pond. I actually hooked him again years later and it was so awesome. (Scarring was identical) Lucky he didn't sustain mouth damage this time and I was able to enjoy a few minutes with him before letting him slide back into the water. Snappers are awesome and rad. Also misunderstood like most reptiles. I love em so much.
Will you do Hermann's tortoises anytime soon?
I still have the one I grew up with! He’s 6 years older than me😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love the faces of snapping turtles, so darn cute! Makes me want to get a stinkpot or two :)
2:43 - Oh, look how cute he walks. I wonder what he looks like when he grouws up?
2:47 - OH GOOD LORD WHAT IS THAT
I love snapping turtles!
Here in rural Missouri I find baby common snappers all the time during late spring.
I just pick them up, tell them how cute they are, and put them back.
I even sometimes find larger common snappers in the ditches in the small town where I live.
I've seen large females practically shut down a highway to cross during breeding season.
These might be the best pet reptile to completely trash your glass aquarium.
People try to keep wild caught juveniles and then decide it's a bad idea and try to sell their giant aquarium.
I leaned real quick not to even bother going to look at aquariums that have had alligator snapping turtles in them. If you decide you need one don't buy new!
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My dad knows a dude who runs a reptile sanctuary and they have an adult alligator snapper who grew up in a bathtub and now he hates properly sized tanks because he's used to small ones :(
That highway needs wildlife tunnels
Just want to say it's wonderful to see how both of you clearly treasure and respect each and every one of these animals for their own unique charms and dangers.
How close do you want this turtle to be to your face clint: yes
Great video on one of my favorite species! There’s a bit of misunderstanding with the idea that they don’t move a lot or are inactive. Their peak activity in the wild is around 2am-sunrise, so most folks don’t get to see them actively moving around. I have some videos of wild ones I have found foraging in groups, which is quite a sight to walk up on 😂👍🏼
Hi Clint, I'm just impressed by the fact that you or someone on your team cares enough to reply to a bunch of comments about everything, answering questions or brightning someones day, thanks Clint
It's me. I'm thankful for the comments. It is so good talking to you guys. I wish I could get to all of them.
So I guess these are only on Clint's Someday List if moving out of Utah also on said list
The law just changed!!!!!
Also there are educational use permits.
Just saw that in the livestream. Nice!
Hey Clint! About 5 years ago I rehabbed a baby alligator snapping turtle that was found with an injury. He was awesome to have and I kept him for about 2 years before he was healed and able to be released. They're definitely a HUGE handful and crazy to care for just rehabbing a baby so I truly can't imagine having it as a pet!! The one I helped out was surprisingly very docile and never snapped at me - maybe he knew I was helping him, but he HATED my sister. Growing up I was always told by my mom that I wasn't allowed to keep animals other than a dog or a betta fish unless I was helping a local rehabilitator. It was the first reptile I got to keep but I always had my heart set on geckos - never made sense to me why she said no to a harmless little leopard gecko or crested gecko but had no problem when I brought home a snapping turtle! Not even 4 days after I moved out on my own I got my first gecko who was a reduced runt from a local animal sanctuary who unfortunately passed away recently due to runt related issues. My sister got me a juvenile leo because she saw how upset I was about losing my first one. I also acquired a year old crested from a great breeder in February and he's been pretty awesome too!!
Hi Clint
I’ve been watching for a few years now and in my village in England you have honestly made a huge impact you wouldn’t believe. Not only did you inspire me to get into reptiles and buy a veiled Cham and Herman tourtiose, your videos which I shared have inspired 4 of my brothers friends who are 13 to responsibly look after theese animals. I absolutely love your positivity in theese challanging times. I think your videos cater to both adults and children with the simplicity and understandability yet factual and informative content. I have been trying to donate where I can and superchatted a few times on recent streams
Thanks Clint
Sam
I have my own pet snapping turtle in animal crossing ;)
No those are dogs, according to like every person I mention it too. 😂
Mine is a cat
Same here, i call him Meow
Looking forward to the common snapper review!
Me too!
Whenever it just sits there with its mouth open I lose it. It's just so funny to me that something so murderous is so easy to just move around.
I saw a massive Alligator Snapping Turtle years ago at an aquarium in Florida, and I'm still amazed at just how *cool* these animals are.
And how huge they can grow!
I rode one of these by accident once... I thought it was a submerged rock. For the record it swam with me on it for a brief moment and I definitely weighed over 300lbs at the time. Here in OK there be dragons...
Saw a huge one in a local reservoir. Maybe two and a half to three feet at the widest point of the shell, and it’s mouth could fit my head easily into it’s open mouth. It had gotten caught on a fishing hook and was floundering about on some rocks close to the shore while the poor fisherman tried to figure out a way to free it without losing a hand-or an arm. It snapped the line before the staff for the reservoir got there, but after being told about it, they said that usually they were killed before they got that big and they were going to get someone to hunt it down.
@@TarotNathers It's a shame to harm such a beast. But I mean that's people. I've seen trucks swerve to hit em. Even the small turtles. People can be so disturbing sometimes.
Hope to see a video featuring common snapper, and which one would you recommend as pets (alligator snapper or common snapper). Planning to get either one of these two.
I have both, and I can say the alligator snapping turtles are easier to care for, and not nearly as aggressive. Both are cool pets though!
I love how wide he smiles when he says “an absolutely horrendous day”
My house is between two large creeks and every year we have some weird migration of alligator snapping turtles between the creeks. For some reason they love trying to get into garages but aside from that, they are super chill
Imagine if a alligator snapping turtle could breed with a iguana
And the golden rule: when you get this pet, you name it Bowser, period.
I'm partial to Gamera myself
I've never seen an Alligator Snapping Turtle with its mouth closed like that... It's actually kind of cute
YESSSSSSSS ABSOLUTE BEST VIDEO ON CZcams 🤩 thank you so much clint for finally getting around to making this video 😁👍 10/10 content
Bruh my mom says no to a freaking tortoise there is literally no way I can get this lmao
Thank you for great brake from studying ^^! Can i have a question? In my country tiliqua scincoides is not very
available, but some people are selling tiliqua gigas and calling them bluetongued skink. Are they similar? If not, would you make a video about it and difference ?
"For a giant turtle that can bite your hand off, they're a very reasonable pet monster."
😂😂😂
used to have a common snapping turtle that was basically a puppy dog we let her run around in the house from time to time for exercise and shed come up to wanting you to pet her on the head but her enclosure was in the backyard and someone stole her one day :/
Awww nooo :(
I have a hatchling right now nd he's pretty cool!! He loves crickets! Lol
Hey quick question Clint! I have one myself but I wanted to know if I can have two together? I read that they really aren’t social and he’ll live happily alone but I wanted to know your opinion of having two alligator snapping turtles together. Is it a good idea? Is it possible to have two together?
These guys are native we're I live
Aren't they great??
Yes they are one of my favorites
Clint: speaks
Alligator Snapping Turtle at any given pointin time: :O
2:50 the look on the camera mans face when the turtle gets super close to him lolol
“the common snapping is probably my very favorite turtle”
Alligator snapping turtle:*gasp*😧 0:56
I met an Alligator Snapping Turtle when I was about ten years old when I still lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba. I say "met" as in I nearly tripped over the thing as I was wandering through the reeds by the river. It was in the height of summer, and I spent a lot of time alone in the dirt of whatever "wilds" I could find in the middle of a city. Winnipeg isn't big by U.S. standards, but when there's nothing else around of comparable size (roughly 800K people), it's large enough, but there was still a good amount of wild-ish areas for a lonely, geeky kid who preferred being out in the woods, wading through streams, out in the mud and encountering what critters they could. Who needs people, anyway?
So I nearly trip over this... thing. I had **NO** idea what the heck it was, just that it looked like a turtle... sort of... if it was a critter from Godzilla, King of All the Monsters. It had spikes all over and it looked mean af. No idea why it was there, either, just that it looked mean enough to spit nails and I just stared at it for a while (from a good distance, of course). It stood to just about my knees--I was a small kid at only 4' 10", so you can probably gauge the turtle was about a foot and a half tall, or thereabouts. I guessed it was a bit shorter than I was in length, had no idea how wide, 'cuz I didn't want to get in front of it. It was grey-brown and greenish, either it's normal colour, or algae, I dunno, and that face was... amazing and I DID NOT wanna get bit. No way.
I thought it was the most awesome thing I'd ever seen in my life. :-)
Cut to decades later when I see a video here on CZcams (not this video, but some other, I think it was some rando nature program) when I saw a turtle that was the spitting image of the monster I saw on the banks of the Red River that summer. Now I had a name for the thing. So I go looking for a bit more info on it: It doesn't live in my area, so how the heck did it end up in **WINNIPEG** if it didn't live around there? Regular Snapping Turtles supposedly could be found around there, so I thought maybe I misidentified it, so I looked those up--nope, not the same beastie. Definitely an Alligator Snapper.
Then I remembered something I'd read years ago: The Red River is sometimes known as the Red River of the North, to distinguish it from the Red River down in the U.S. Midwest, and it's part of the river system that's connected to the Mississippi, though not technically a tributary because it's not connected directly to it. The Alligator Snapping Turtle is common--or it used to be--in the Mississippi river, it's Delta and the Everglades. Now I knew why that turtle was in Winnipeg.
Like how some birds and other animals can establish anomalous populations in locales not normally associated with them (when humans don't drop them there, that is), this individual had wandered far from it's usual range and somehow ended up swimming through the whole river system all the way to our city and was probably going to end up in Lake Winnipeg, the endpoint of the Red River. It must've taken years, and I wonder what temperatures an Alligator Snapper could handle, 'cuz that lunatic monster probably died in that lake that winter, if it made it that far, unless they can hibernate. I wonder how old that turtle was, when we met? It was as big as ten yr old me, probably full-grown, and I don't know how long it takes for them to reach full size.
This brings back memories of me fishing as a kid in a tiny row boat and seeing a snapper almost half the size of my boat. I got so scared! I wondered at the time of he could be in the Guinness book of records. Soooooo amazing! Love these videos!
Great video on one of my absolute favorite animals in the world. I love introducing people to them that have never heard or or seen them. Used to cath in FL when i was a kid. I cant believe they make such a great pet. And Kevin is always great to hear from! Keep it up.
I rescued a 75-100lb one from a road way about 11 years ago. Was very intimidating, but worth getting it to a wildlife rehabber. Poor guy's shell had a minor crack, an injured leg, and was a little dehydrated. I also found a baby about a year back, was cute.
Common snappers are my favorite turtle as well! I've loved them since I was a kid and they can really tame down and be very personable, when I have the space and time for one I plan on getting one as a pet in the future. The poor things are so misunderstood by people but I love them.
That big one was so damn pissed when he picked 'em up out the water lmao
Turtle, soundlessly screaming the entire video: HALP, HAAAAAAAAAALP
When he said "reasonable pet monster" I heard myself laugh. 😂
That mouth loves to stay open while he was eyeing your right hand.
Snapper brain "I bite"
They look so prehistoric!
Right??
I like your optimism Clint, great content as always.
Thank you so much!
I love your videos with NERD, keep em coming!
The reality is Clint is simply wonderful and an absolute joy to watch interact with all these incredible creatures!
Turtle when he’s crawling :|
Turtle when he’s picked up :0
Alligator snappers are some of my favorite animals from childhood! They break the mold of turtles in many ways, and are undeniably awesome :)
I'm also going to plug my idea for a video on amblypygids haha, aka whip spiders, aka tailless whip scorpions (which is a horrible name for them, it's so long and also doesn't make sense. It would be like, instead of saying "dogs," you called them "dwarf long-tailed bears.") I got one as a pet recently and they're such incredibly unique arthropods, not to mention they have very easy but interesting care (I keep mine in a plastic cereal storage container from the dollar store!). Fun to watch, harmless, and an impressive size to boot!
The San Antonio Zoo has a monster that just turned 28. When I was little I was terrified. The creature was HUGE!
I love how the alligator snapping turtle is just ready to bite the entire time
Clint, you are an absolute treasure! Only you could make keeping a chompy rock monster sound like a good idea.
Also I hope to see emerald tree boas, and poison dart frogs on here some day.
Evolution: How much like a Kaiju you want to look like?
Alligator snapping turtle: YES
Real life Gamera