Snapping Turtle Habitat You would find a snapping

Snapping Turtle

Habitat • You would find a snapping turtle in the southern waters of North America , or in a zoo.

What It Eats • A snapping turtle will eat a lot of insects or • • reptiles including fish, pollywogs, newts , worms, snails or crickets. If in the zoo they will eat minnows, spiders and crickets. But there have been a few disasters! When out of their cage they are not strangers to having eaten fingers either - and that is why they are called snapping turtles.

A Few Fun Facts About The Snapping Turtle • The snapping turtle can grow to 2 -feet long and • • • can weigh up to 16 Kg. Snapping Turtles have been around since the time of the dinosaurs You could probably tell that they are vicious but they are likely to be more vicious than you think. They have bitten off more fingers than there a people in Templemore coming in around 5, 300. There are only 550 left in the world.

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Species • There are 2 species of snapping turtles one being an alligator snapping turtle and one being a common snapping turtle. • The common snapping turtle is bigger but the alligator snapping turtle is much more vicious

Questions • 1 st + 2 nd Class- Where would you find a snapping turtle ? • 3 rd + 4 th Class- Name three of the foods that the snapping turtle eats ? • 5 th + 6 th Class- Is the common or alligator snapping turtle more vicious ? • All Of School- What can a snapping turtle weigh up to ?

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