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Index of Subjects Rick, thanks! Some people can be incredibly cruel. It's neither healthy nor prudent for a snapping turtle to become habituated to people. The next piece of wiener floating on the river may have a fish hook inside it. And the next party camping near its territory on Herbert River may have a different idea of entertainment than its Victoria Day friends... Dusan Soudek ---- Rick Whitman <dendroica.caerulescens@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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