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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0015_01CD3791.AE7E97D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Members of my canoeing party were highly surprised (and amused!) = by a wiener-eating snapping turtle. The creature was totally wild, and = large, with a carapace length estimated at nearly 40 cm. It was proudly = shown to us by some campers at a popular access point to Hants County's = Herbert River. The campers, who spend every Victoria Day weekend at the same site, = feed it raw wieners. They have been doing so for the last seven years. = They recognize "their" individual by an unusual mark on its carapace, = possibly an old scar. Apparently it "took them a long time to establish = trust," as one of the campers explained to me.=20 I witnessed the turtle swimming after and swallowing a floating = piece of wiener, and minutes earlier other members of my crew witnessed = the wild turtle being hand-fed. It looks like the annual Victoria Day weekend feast on processed = meat does no visible harm to the ancient turtle.... Any other tame wild = snapping turtle stories? Dusan Soudek ------=_NextPart_000_0015_01CD3791.AE7E97D0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META name=3DGENERATOR content=3D"MSHTML 8.00.6001.19154"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D4> Members of my = canoeing party=20 were highly surprised (and amused!) by a wiener-eating snapping = turtle. The=20 creature was totally wild, and large, with a carapace length estimated = at nearly=20 40 cm. It was proudly shown to us by some campers at a popular = access=20 point to Hants County's Herbert River.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D4> The campers, who spend every = Victoria Day=20 weekend at the same site, feed it raw wieners. They have been doing so = for the=20 last seven years. They recognize "their" individual by an = unusual mark=20 on its carapace, possibly an old scar. Apparently it "took them a long = time to=20 establish trust," as one of the campers explained to me. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D4> I witnessed the turtle swimming = after and=20 swallowing a floating piece of wiener, and minutes earlier other members = of=20 my crew witnessed the wild turtle being hand-fed.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D4> It looks like the annual = Victoria Day=20 weekend feast on processed meat does no visible harm to the ancient = turtle....=20 Any other tame wild snapping turtle stories?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D4> Dusan Soudek</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D4> </FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0015_01CD3791.AE7E97D0--
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