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The Animals That Aren't Dogs or Cats Thread

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I little follow up on my other post.
I forgot to mention that Carla almost bit me while I was petting her. I was petting the side of her face and got a little too close to her mouth and she started nibbling, and I felt teeth brush my finger.
She's got a white spot on her forehead and the rest of her is brown, and apparently she's shedding, because she was getting more and more white mixed in with the brown as I was petting her. She was over by me for quite a while, this was the longest I've pet any of them.
And while my mom and I were out at the park, we found a spot where the donkey's had been rolling. It was really, really smooth, with big ridges on one side, and curved marks where their hooves had been sliding around as the rolled. I was gonna try and take a picture, but by the time we realized what it was and I got my phone out, me and the dogs had walked had through it and ruined it.
 
Velocity said:
My son was leaving for work this morning and when he opened the door to the front porch, the door hit a very large snapping turtle. Now, that snapper had to climb 4 steps to get to the porch and why would he want to do that? I didn't think climbing steps was something turtles did. Anyway he moved down to the first step by the time I was awake enough to go look at it. I looked for him again about 3 hours later and he had left the porch and steps entirely and dug himself into the ground between the porch and downspout.
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I'm late to the party, but how close is a body of water like a pond, creek, etc. to you that would support snappers--btw they taste like chicken
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-- what I suspect, w/o further detail from you, is that you have a she rather than a he looking to build a nest and lay her eggs.

Nesting and Incubation
A female snapping turtle will typically lay her eggs in early summer. Depending on when she mated, egg-laying may extend into autumn. She chooses a nesting site in an area of loose soil, sand, loam, vegetation debris or sawdust, where she digs a nest 4 to 7 inches deep. She will lay 20 to 40 soft-shelled, cream-colored eggs roughly the size and shape of a table tennis ball. Snapping turtles will generally dig their nests during the mornings and evenings; in some parts of their range, however, this behavior only occurs in the morning.

According to former Missouri state herpetologist Tom R. Johnson, up to 84 percent of snapping turtle nests are destroyed by predators such as minks, raccoons and skunks.

The Mating Season and Reproduction of the Snapping Turtle
 
JD said:
so that means that Curly is actually Carla. And yes, I did apologize to her for calling her a boy. I'm thinking that also means there's a pretty good chance that Moe is Mary and Larry is Linda. Or would Lois be the female version of Larry?
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This is one of the latest videos from the Help Alberta Wildies Society, which is run by a guy up there who watches over some of the wild horses up in the mountains up there. It's a little long at 17 minutes, but if you have the time, it's worth a watch.
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With the three horses I see up at the stables, my mom said them being mares could actually fit some of the behavior I've seen better than if they were males. Because they tend to bicker a lot, but it doesn't turn into outright fighting. One will bump into another, and the second will get pissed and bite or kick at the first one, so then the first one will bite or kick them, and then they'll chase each for a few steps, and then just turn around and go back to whatever they were doing before like nothing happened.
 
Worf factor9 said:
I'm late to the party, but how close is a body of water like a pond, creek, etc. to you that would support snappers--btw they taste like chicken
hungry.gif
-- what I suspect, w/o further detail from you, is that you have a she rather than a he looking to build a nest and lay her eggs.

Nesting and Incubation
A female snapping turtle will typically lay her eggs in early summer. Depending on when she mated, egg-laying may extend into autumn. She chooses a nesting site in an area of loose soil, sand, loam, vegetation debris or sawdust, where she digs a nest 4 to 7 inches deep. She will lay 20 to 40 soft-shelled, cream-colored eggs roughly the size and shape of a table tennis ball. Snapping turtles will generally dig their nests during the mornings and evenings; in some parts of their range, however, this behavior only occurs in the morning.

According to former Missouri state herpetologist Tom R. Johnson, up to 84 percent of snapping turtle nests are destroyed by predators such as minks, raccoons and skunks.

The Mating Season and Reproduction of the Snapping Turtle
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We live about a mile and a half from a river, but most of the snappers we come across just dig in down in a roadside ditch.
The thing is, she/he climbed up 4 brick steps to the porch. Not going to be burying any eggs on a brick porch. We found it dug in by the porch a few hours later, but it was just hiding until nightfall.
 
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