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I feel the extract below is where it gets very dangerous for the turtles sooner or later. At site #31 on Peskowesk Lake (Keji) there was a large snapper that definitely visited the "dock" routinely, for food scraps etc., for a number of years. And then it was gone. Meaningless, yes, but these things are very long-lived & are the top predator in their system. A certain fraction of humans, even in "back country" campers, are idiots. Yes, I said that. And these turtles are seriously scary to some. We were definitely told by a park warden that a snapper at a different site turned up with ax cuts in its back. I believe it died. And this was in Keji. Rick W. On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Frederick W. Schueler <bckcdb@istar.ca> wrote: > * here's Matt Keevil's response to this. Matt is doing his Ph.D. on Snapping > Turtle dispersal and population genetics in Algonquin Park in Ontario. > > fred. ........................... > I've heard a bunch of stories of people hand feeding snappers and I suspect > this sort of habituation might explain other instances of people reporting > being approached by snappers. ............................
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