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Alligator Snapping Turtle

Alligator Snapping Turtle
zoogiraffe, 3 Aug 2014
    • ThylacineAlive
      Wow this looks like the largest and best enclosure for an Alligator Snapping Turtle I've ever heard of!

      ~Thylo:cool:
    • zoogiraffe
      It does share it with an American Alligator!
    • ThylacineAlive
      I figured as such. Still, leagues better than anything I've seen over here.

      ~Thylo:cool:
    • Falcosparverius
      I believe the 'Southern Swamp' exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences outclasses most alligator snapping turtle exhibits, especially since it holds several turtles in a mixed species enclosure with an albino alligator and various fish species.
      http://www.zoochat.com/1056/swamp-233943/
      http://www.zoochat.com/1056/southern-swamp-albino-american-alligator-alligator-220436/
    • temp
      There are several interesting mixed alligator+snapping turtle exhibits in North America (unsurprising, considering where the species are native), e.g. the previously mentioned California Academy of Sciences, but also other such as National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium, Busch Gardens, Tennessee Aquarium and Forth Worth. However, the snapping turtle is a species where a large exhibit really isn't all that important, although people may think it looks nice. Snapping turtles commonly live in tiny pools in the wild and even when in larger lakes they often move very little, essentially staying at "their spot" unless forced away by a lack of food or intruders. Alligators obviously don't belong in this category, so any alligator+snapping turtle exhibit has to be fairly large
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