🐢 Cookie - A Common Snapping Turtle: The Ultimate Opportunist! Ever wonder what makes the Common Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina) one of nature’s most successful survivors? It’s all about the diet! 🍽️ Watch Cookie show off those lightning-fast reflexes in 10X slow motion as he takes down a hornworm. In the wild, these turtles aren’t picky eaters—they are the definition of opportunistic omnivores. If they can catch it, they will eat it. What’s on the menu? Snapping turtles will eat almost

The common snapping turtle is a species that lives in freshwater. Their natural habitat extends from southeastern Canada, to the Rocky Mountains, northeast close Nova Scotia and south all the way to Florida. They are omnivores, and their diet consists of plants, insects, worms, snakes, fish and small animals. Currently, the Common Snapping Turtle is not considered a vulnerable species. Their cousins, the Alligator Snapping Turtles, are a threatened species in Texas, and some other states have im

The common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) is a species of large freshwater turtle in the family Chelydridae. After emerging from brumation in early spring, turtles begin feeding and searching for mates. Snapping turtles generally reach maturity at 8 to 10 years and can live up to 40 years or more. They typically occupy home ranges of 4 to 22 acres, depending on the size of the wetland. As omnivores, snapping turtles feed on plants, insects, spiders, worms, fish, frogs, small turtles, snak

Here is the highly requested slow-mo version of the snapping turtle incident. Doesn’t get much closer than that! 😳 The “bite speed” of a common snapping turtle, referring to how quickly it can strike, is estimated to be up to 174 miles per hour (280 kilometers per hour). This includes the lunging and jaw snapping action, which occurs in a remarkably short time of 4-8 milliseconds!! Even if you think you have fast relaxes, you will not be faster than a striking snapping turtle. I like to conside