xekstrin:

beardycarrot:

This is an Alligator Snapping Turtle. This is why you don’t go swimming in Florida rivers or lakes unless you can see the bottom.

#the person holding this turtle is actually in danger holding it even #if it chose- that turtle could stretch it’s neck to bite the hand holding it #they have terrifying long necks that can reach nearly anywhere around their body

No, that’s a softshell turtle you’re thinking of. Snapping turtles also have a pretty good reach, but not alligator snappers. Alligator snappers hunt by sitting on the bottom of a lake with their mouth open and a fake worm on their tongue wiggling around, and, when something comes and tries to eat the worm, they chomp its head off. They don’t need a long reach like a pursuit predator or sit-and-lunge predator would.