One time I hatched about 80 snapping turtle eggs. The baby turtles\u2019 shells were remarkably small compared to a full grown snapper. The shell was the size of my thumbnail. The head and neck stuck out. <\/p>\n
Something that I\u2019ll bet a lot of people don\u2019t 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 \u201cTown River\u201d 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\u2019t know how long it takes a snapping turtle to grow up, but these were not newborns. The shells were probably 2 inches in diameter.<\/p>\n
Imagine something so grotesque as a mother snapper, loving her babies. <\/p>\n
What the world needs now. Love sweet love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One time I hatched about 80 snapping turtle eggs. The baby turtles\u2019 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\u2019ll bet a lot of people don\u2019t know is that baby snapping turtles meet up with their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-daily-meds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/page132.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/page132.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/page132.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/page132.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/page132.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/page132.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/page132.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/page132.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/page132.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}