Either this woman is a Lilliputian, or the snapping turtle in this picture is about twenty times its normal size.
As I scout Youtube for amusing and enlightening videos to share with you, I also encounter piffle like this. It introduced a video on “Living Fossils.” As in, “Ooh-ooh, giant turtle, gotta see it!”
I don’t want to believe that our education and media systems actually produce people so ignorant that they just might think the above picture is anything other than a fraud. Is anybody that far isolated from the natural world?
Yesterday it was a man supposedly swallowed by a python, with every little detail of his shape showing through the snake–instead of, well, a big lump. I couldn’t find that picture for you.
Anyhow, if you won’t go in the water for fear of giant snapping turtles–forget about it. They don’t exist.
Thank God they don’t get any larger than that.
I hear snapping turtles make for a good soup.
I wouldn’t have the heart for it. Snappers are good pets, they get very tame and trusting.
The one I caught was terrible. I asked him to make some soup, but a half hour later he hadn’t even put a kettle on the stove. 🙂
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Well, they got me, didn’t they?