Alligator Snapping Turtle

              This large prehistoric turtle is thought as a living dinosaur of the turtle world and can be found in the swamps of florada and lousiana. The alligator snapping turtle gets its name for its alligator like shell and its hard skin along with its strong mouth that has just the right amount of force to chop of a human finger or even a hole hand if it has to. The alligator snapping turtle can live from 50 to 100 years of age and some have lived even longer males can grow up to 23 inches long and  weigh 175 pounds to 200 however females only weigh 50 pounds to 70 pounds. They mostly spend there lives in water but the females will go 50 meters inland to lay there eggs. the alligator snappers protection status is that they are threatened. they are predators of frogs fish and other small creatures of the swamps they use a  red worm like object in there mouth to draw in there prey and then they let them get close and then grab them with there beak like mouth.The adults have no predators except for humans that hunt them for there shells and meat and they use the shell as a trophy of there catch.The alligator snapper can hold its breath from 40 to 50(min) and they are the perfect predator for dark brown.

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