One time I hatched about 80 snapping turtle eggs. The baby turtles’ shells were remarkably small compared to a full grown snapper. The shell was the size of my thumbnail. The head and neck stuck out.
Something that I’ll bet a lot of people don’t know is that baby snapping turtles meet up with their mother some time after being born. I saw this one day while going down the “Town River” in a john boat with Dad and my brother. We came around a bend and there was a huge snapper with tens of babies climbing all around it on land. They ran like heck. I don’t know how long it takes a snapping turtle to grow up, but these were not newborns. The shells were probably 2 inches in diameter.
Imagine something so grotesque as a mother snapper, loving her babies.
What the world needs now. Love sweet love.
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