Alligator Snapping Turtle, The Best Pet MONSTER?
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Alligator snapping turtles are probably the most hardcore of all turtles. They are absolute MONSTERS. But, as monsters go, they are not wholly unreasonable to keep. So is the alligator snapping turtle the best pet monster for you? To figure this out we went to New England Reptile Distributors ( / nerdreptilesinc ) to check out these absolutely incredible, and a bit terrifying, wonderful giant turtles.
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Clint, the best pet human?
Well hi there!
Hello, forgive me if I ask you, Clint. But I have a question. Is it true that a Hybrid of Common Snapping Turtle and Alligator Snapping Turtle really exist ?
Maybe. Sounds like a bad idea. Put that head on a long neck...
Clint what is the best pet dog you could possibly get?? Tegu...
If Pokémon were in the real world, you’d totally be a Pokémon professor.
Absolutely.
Pokemon Go?
@@tonatiuhnino3711 You should know that there's more to Pokemon other than Pokemon go
@@animaliasking3431 I know that.
@@tonatiuhnino3711 Yeah but why did you just go "Pokemon Go?"
Alligator Snapping Turtle, the most dangerous rock in the world.
Arguably
@@GayleenFroese great, now we not only have to deal a certain virus that caused a pandemic, we also have to deal with angry stone fish!? life is rough.
Gayleen Froese I was about to comment about Stonefish
Stonefish enters the chat*
@@ibic2441 tonnes of people got the virus and arent dead. It's all a power grab
Clint, I think you're one of the few people who can describe an animal as a monster and have it sound like a compliment.
Oh, it is!
You'd like Jeremy Wade :)
i’m also one of those people 😂 i’ll be like ah what a beast! with the biggest smile on my face
Necrophilia isn’t that bad to be honest.
As kids in Jacksonville, FL, my brother and I would catch them and bring them home in shopping carts, only to be told we couldn't keep them. We'd disconsolately take them back to the creeks and ditches and let them go. They were probably 75 to 100 lb monsters, so big it would take a 9 and an 11 year together to pick them up. How each of us has 10 fingers to this day is a miracle.
Now thats a childhood and a half!
He looks so cute and derpy with his mouth closed...then he opens his mouth and it sounds like he’d screaming “I WILL END YOUR BLOODLINE”
Dio brando be like
"I WILL EAT YOUR TOES!!!"
"They're probably designed by a 13 year old"
I'm pretty sure they were lol
Several million years ago.
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yuh! when god made those, he still wasnt quite over his dinsaur phase yet.
they were designed by nintendo
"Heinous bait" be like when you find a baby Ackie in a pet shop and 12 months later find out its really a Nile monitor that's taken over your house
That's ridiculous. Idk how you would even get them confused
@@Scvonn called a joke
Imagen if this actually happened lmao
@@liamking2204 yeah I would hope so, but there's no accounting for some peoples poor decisions 😂😂
Scott Vonnahme r/woooosh
I can’t imagine trying to take this thing to the vet.
“Hi, can I get a check up for my turtle?”
“Yes of course, could we get a look at it- OH MY GOD!”
LMAO
"Yeah he has a little bloating so I need you to run some test. Btw he will bite and make sure to wear iron fist!"
@@bryn1063 haha
lol good luck with the Popsicle stick in the mouth to look down the throat thing.
@@bryn1063 I don't think iron will protect you form its bite im guessing titanium will be required
I love how the snapping turtle gets a higher score than a tegu
It is much easier in a lot of ways than a tegu.
@@ClintsReptiles and easier to handle than a gecko
Depending on the gecko. It would be nice if tokays had safe to hold handles like this...
Aw I love these big dudes. They're just living their turtle lives just vibing and having either all the chill or none of it.
3:14 I love watching him walk across the table with his mouth open! He looks like a bulldozer had a baby with a freaking army tank!!
I actually cared for a hatchling alligator snapper for a few months awhile ago. It was found in the wild in mid-Michigan, where they are not native. There was nobody else who could take it in over the winter, so i took the little bugger home. It was only a touch bigger than a half-dollar coin. I set it up in a ten gallon aquarium with plenty of hiding spots and some plants; fed it rosies and turtle pellets. In the spring, one of my coworkers mentioned that someone she knew at a rescue down in Alabama was coming up and that he could take the snapper back when he left. So, that's where it lives now.
Good on you :)
It's actually pretty cool that there might be a few breeding size individuals up that far, and I assume they live in a deep river. They have been known to spend their lives gradually moving up river.
They wouldn't survive out here in Michigan. Temperatures get WELL below freezing in winter, and just about everything freezes. These guys are from warmer climes down in the southern region and wouldn't stand much of a chance.
I live in New Orleans and actually found a tiny hatchling in a pool skimmer back in 2015. The pool was right next to a canal. He was almost solid black and pretty cute. A little bit bigger that a quarter. Gave him to a pet shop near me . They specialize in reptiles
Alligator Snapping Turtle = a real life Dreadnaw.
No it's a portable Gamera.
Thats what the Pokémon was based on.
interesting fact: Alligator snapping turtle, Macrochelys temminckii, has a cousin closer than the common snapper, which is Macrochelys suwanniensis aka Suwannee snapping turtle from Suwannee River.
Very cool fact! Thanks for sharing.
woaw thanks mate
why havent i heard about this
Headcanon:
Clint is actually the “i like turtles” kid from way back when.
So?? I like turtles, okay?
Clint's Reptiles hahahah!!!! ❤️
@@ClintsReptiles So does a friend of mine, and your enthusiasm talking about them is great!
Snapping turtle: *:V*
Clint: *:D*
Alright clint, real talk. When are we going to get the kimodo dragon as a pet video? We want you to crush all of our dreams of it getting a high score xD
LOL! My favorite quote from any book about Komodo dragons went something like, “Their bites are notoriously hard to treat. There is a well known case of a man dying in Paris two years after he had been bitten.”
Clint, the best pet human?
"Well hi there! I'm Gus Gus, and I'm here with Clint, my goofy looking human, to ask one question..."
Clint's Reptiles ha ha your so goofy and funny!!
@@ClintsReptiles well the real question is: what would Gus Gus rate YOU?
@@frostbitetheannunakiiceind6574 no
Frostbite The Badass Ice Carnotaurus that’s a yikes from me homie
5:13 clint: this is how you manhandle a turtle
turtle: *sad turtle face*
When I was 8 years old, my neighbor found an alligator snapping turtle nest mowing his yard and gifted me a hatchling. My parents freaked out but I cuddled that thing like a baby. My parents had no interest in getting a proper set up, and looking back I really wish I had had the ability to give it a better life than a cardboard box. Eventually it escaped and was lost in the house for over a year and found in the basement where it had been feasting on crickets that plagued us, which is better than the ground beef my mom was trying to feed it. We released it back into a local lake soon after finding it. I miss that little turtle.
Ho do you not find a turtle in your own house for an entire year?
Yeah that story was made up
So you couldn’t find an alligator snapping turtle for a year? That seems kind of made up
@@474yx a small hatchling that could theoretically stand still for years and doesn't make any noise, not that unbelievable
@@474yx yeah turtles are VERY quiet. Like scary quiet. If you don't beileve it then you've never had a turtle before 🤣🤣
That tail is so endearing! Reminds me of the reverse hippo video that Zefrank just posted.
I'll have to check that out!
How close do you want this turtle to be to your face clint: yes
OMG 💕💕 I miss my baby. I live in Louisiana (where they are a native species) and found a small injured baby alligator snapping turtle. I took him in and had him for about 10 years. I loved him SO much, but eventually even the enclosures I made myself were not big enough for him. I got in touch with wildlife fisheries and was able to get Justin Turtlelake into a conservation program.
He made it out pretty good, had a loving mother for 10 years then got a girlfriend and eventually was released back into the wild!
Good thing nature balances snapping turtles' stats of range/damage, so they arent too op XD
I feel like a few million years ago when everything was larger because of the higher oxygen levels, these kind of turtles were probably bigger then any human today.
I am so happy that my favorite turtle is actually showing on this channel.
You have good taste!
ghost 48218 yes it’s my second favorite just shy behind the mata mata turtle
I remember one we found while fishing in New Jersey, he was only about 2" in shell diameter and his bite still sucked!!
Don't put your hand in there!
@@ClintsReptiles but the worm.. it was so tempting!! Lol
That's how they getcha!
This is a monster.
Turtle: :O
Alligator snapping turtles definitely get well over 200 pounds. I saw one that stretched nearly shoulder-to-stripe across the entire northbound lane during one of my trips back from Arkadelphia to Camden about 40 years ago. It must have been at least five feet long from snout to the tip of its tail, and its shell rose up to the height of my knees. This was an Arkansas backroad in Ouachita County that had no traffic during the several minutes we stopped to look at the monster reptile. The turtle was stationary in the center of the lane with its mouth wide open. It was about 100 feet from a small bridge that crossed a nearby creek. We were too afraid to move the turtle out of the road because it was so menacing and enormous -- at least twice as big as I was. However, I'm sure no one ran over the turtle because it would have destroyed their car or truck, and it was visible from a long distance down the road in either direction.
I had one these monsters as a kid, he had an awesome enclosure. Caught him fishing in a farm pond. Around 3-4 lbs. He spent around 2-3 years with us. He had some issues including mouth damage and shell damage. Once he had healed up, I let him get to around 10-12 lbs before letting him go back into the pond. I actually hooked him again years later and it was so awesome. (Scarring was identical) Lucky he didn't sustain mouth damage this time and I was able to enjoy a few minutes with him before letting him slide back into the water. Snappers are awesome and rad. Also misunderstood like most reptiles. I love em so much.
"Wiggling that tongue around" was the most laugh out loud moment I've had with this channel
Now that we know your style, hopefully we can get you again 😉
Hi Clint
I’ve been watching for a few years now and in my village in England you have honestly made a huge impact you wouldn’t believe. Not only did you inspire me to get into reptiles and buy a veiled Cham and Herman tourtiose, your videos which I shared have inspired 4 of my brothers friends who are 13 to responsibly look after theese animals. I absolutely love your positivity in theese challanging times. I think your videos cater to both adults and children with the simplicity and understandability yet factual and informative content. I have been trying to donate where I can and superchatted a few times on recent streams
Thanks Clint
Sam
Hi Clint, I'm just impressed by the fact that you or someone on your team cares enough to reply to a bunch of comments about everything, answering questions or brightning someones day, thanks Clint
It's me. I'm thankful for the comments. It is so good talking to you guys. I wish I could get to all of them.
Great video on one of my favorite species! There’s a bit of misunderstanding with the idea that they don’t move a lot or are inactive. Their peak activity in the wild is around 2am-sunrise, so most folks don’t get to see them actively moving around. I have some videos of wild ones I have found foraging in groups, which is quite a sight to walk up on 😂👍🏼
Clint: speaks
Alligator Snapping Turtle at any given pointin time: :O
I rode one of these by accident once... I thought it was a submerged rock. For the record it swam with me on it for a brief moment and I definitely weighed over 300lbs at the time. Here in OK there be dragons...
Saw a huge one in a local reservoir. Maybe two and a half to three feet at the widest point of the shell, and it’s mouth could fit my head easily into it’s open mouth. It had gotten caught on a fishing hook and was floundering about on some rocks close to the shore while the poor fisherman tried to figure out a way to free it without losing a hand-or an arm. It snapped the line before the staff for the reservoir got there, but after being told about it, they said that usually they were killed before they got that big and they were going to get someone to hunt it down.
@@TarotNathers It's a shame to harm such a beast. But I mean that's people. I've seen trucks swerve to hit em. Even the small turtles. People can be so disturbing sometimes.
I've never seen an Alligator Snapping Turtle with its mouth closed like that... It's actually kind of cute
I've seen large females practically shut down a highway to cross during breeding season.
These might be the best pet reptile to completely trash your glass aquarium.
People try to keep wild caught juveniles and then decide it's a bad idea and try to sell their giant aquarium.
I leaned real quick not to even bother going to look at aquariums that have had alligator snapping turtles in them. If you decide you need one don't buy new!
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My dad knows a dude who runs a reptile sanctuary and they have an adult alligator snapper who grew up in a bathtub and now he hates properly sized tanks because he's used to small ones :(
That highway needs wildlife tunnels
I love snapping turtles!
Here in rural Missouri I find baby common snappers all the time during late spring.
I just pick them up, tell them how cute they are, and put them back.
I even sometimes find larger common snappers in the ditches in the small town where I live.
Will you do Hermann's tortoises anytime soon?
I still have the one I grew up with! He’s 6 years older than me😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hey Clint! About 5 years ago I rehabbed a baby alligator snapping turtle that was found with an injury. He was awesome to have and I kept him for about 2 years before he was healed and able to be released. They're definitely a HUGE handful and crazy to care for just rehabbing a baby so I truly can't imagine having it as a pet!! The one I helped out was surprisingly very docile and never snapped at me - maybe he knew I was helping him, but he HATED my sister. Growing up I was always told by my mom that I wasn't allowed to keep animals other than a dog or a betta fish unless I was helping a local rehabilitator. It was the first reptile I got to keep but I always had my heart set on geckos - never made sense to me why she said no to a harmless little leopard gecko or crested gecko but had no problem when I brought home a snapping turtle! Not even 4 days after I moved out on my own I got my first gecko who was a reduced runt from a local animal sanctuary who unfortunately passed away recently due to runt related issues. My sister got me a juvenile leo because she saw how upset I was about losing my first one. I also acquired a year old crested from a great breeder in February and he's been pretty awesome too!!
Imagine if a alligator snapping turtle could breed with a iguana
"For a giant turtle that can bite your hand off, they're a very reasonable pet monster."
😂😂😂
Hope to see a video featuring common snapper, and which one would you recommend as pets (alligator snapper or common snapper). Planning to get either one of these two.
I have both, and I can say the alligator snapping turtles are easier to care for, and not nearly as aggressive. Both are cool pets though!
I met an Alligator Snapping Turtle when I was about ten years old when I still lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba. I say "met" as in I nearly tripped over the thing as I was wandering through the reeds by the river. It was in the height of summer, and I spent a lot of time alone in the dirt of whatever "wilds" I could find in the middle of a city. Winnipeg isn't big by U.S. standards, but when there's nothing else around of comparable size (roughly 800K people), it's large enough, but there was still a good amount of wild-ish areas for a lonely, geeky kid who preferred being out in the woods, wading through streams, out in the mud and encountering what critters they could. Who needs people, anyway?
So I nearly trip over this... thing. I had **NO** idea what the heck it was, just that it looked like a turtle... sort of... if it was a critter from Godzilla, King of All the Monsters. It had spikes all over and it looked mean af. No idea why it was there, either, just that it looked mean enough to spit nails and I just stared at it for a while (from a good distance, of course). It stood to just about my knees--I was a small kid at only 4' 10", so you can probably gauge the turtle was about a foot and a half tall, or thereabouts. I guessed it was a bit shorter than I was in length, had no idea how wide, 'cuz I didn't want to get in front of it. It was grey-brown and greenish, either it's normal colour, or algae, I dunno, and that face was... amazing and I DID NOT wanna get bit. No way.
I thought it was the most awesome thing I'd ever seen in my life. :-)
Cut to decades later when I see a video here on UA-cam (not this video, but some other, I think it was some rando nature program) when I saw a turtle that was the spitting image of the monster I saw on the banks of the Red River that summer. Now I had a name for the thing. So I go looking for a bit more info on it: It doesn't live in my area, so how the heck did it end up in **WINNIPEG** if it didn't live around there? Regular Snapping Turtles supposedly could be found around there, so I thought maybe I misidentified it, so I looked those up--nope, not the same beastie. Definitely an Alligator Snapper.
Then I remembered something I'd read years ago: The Red River is sometimes known as the Red River of the North, to distinguish it from the Red River down in the U.S. Midwest, and it's part of the river system that's connected to the Mississippi, though not technically a tributary because it's not connected directly to it. The Alligator Snapping Turtle is common--or it used to be--in the Mississippi river, it's Delta and the Everglades. Now I knew why that turtle was in Winnipeg.
Like how some birds and other animals can establish anomalous populations in locales not normally associated with them (when humans don't drop them there, that is), this individual had wandered far from it's usual range and somehow ended up swimming through the whole river system all the way to our city and was probably going to end up in Lake Winnipeg, the endpoint of the Red River. It must've taken years, and I wonder what temperatures an Alligator Snapper could handle, 'cuz that lunatic monster probably died in that lake that winter, if it made it that far, unless they can hibernate. I wonder how old that turtle was, when we met? It was as big as ten yr old me, probably full-grown, and I don't know how long it takes for them to reach full size.
And the golden rule: when you get this pet, you name it Bowser, period.
I'm partial to Gamera myself
My house is between two large creeks and every year we have some weird migration of alligator snapping turtles between the creeks. For some reason they love trying to get into garages but aside from that, they are super chill
So I guess these are only on Clint's Someday List if moving out of Utah also on said list
The law just changed!!!!!
Also there are educational use permits.
Just saw that in the livestream. Nice!
Whenever it just sits there with its mouth open I lose it. It's just so funny to me that something so murderous is so easy to just move around.
YESSSSSSSS ABSOLUTE BEST VIDEO ON UA-cam 🤩 thank you so much clint for finally getting around to making this video 😁👍 10/10 content
used to have a common snapping turtle that was basically a puppy dog we let her run around in the house from time to time for exercise and shed come up to wanting you to pet her on the head but her enclosure was in the backyard and someone stole her one day :/
Awww nooo :(
I have a hatchling right now nd he's pretty cool!! He loves crickets! Lol
Saw a massive one years back in the local fish and wildlife resevoir. A guy who was fishing accidentally hooked it, and with all we saw in the water that it had churned up the only think we saw was part of it’s front, claws, and its head. Actual dinosaur. It was so massive it looked like it could hold my head in its jaws easily. The guy who caught it was at a loss of what to do. He couldn’t just let it go, he had to try to pull the hook out of it’s mouth, but right when some park workers came over to try to help out, the line snapped and that absolute monster disappeared back into the water. The single largest turtle I’ve ever seen in my life.
“the common snapping is probably my very favorite turtle”
Alligator snapping turtle:*gasp*😧 0:56
Bruh my mom says no to a freaking tortoise there is literally no way I can get this lmao
Clint: "I like turtles"
I Like Turtles Kid: "We're gonna get along just fine."
Hey quick question Clint! I have one myself but I wanted to know if I can have two together? I read that they really aren’t social and he’ll live happily alone but I wanted to know your opinion of having two alligator snapping turtles together. Is it a good idea? Is it possible to have two together?
I rescued a 75-100lb one from a road way about 11 years ago. Was very intimidating, but worth getting it to a wildlife rehabber. Poor guy's shell had a minor crack, an injured leg, and was a little dehydrated. I also found a baby about a year back, was cute.
Thank you for great brake from studying ^^! Can i have a question? In my country tiliqua scincoides is not very
available, but some people are selling tiliqua gigas and calling them bluetongued skink. Are they similar? If not, would you make a video about it and difference ?
Until recently the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago had a massive alligator snapping turtle. It was the stuff of nightmares. Its mouth was bigger than my head and its beak was enormous and sharp.
Turtle, soundlessly screaming the entire video: HALP, HAAAAAAAAAALP
They look so prehistoric!
Right??
Funny story: About twenty years ago I was living a few blocks away from the Cincinnati Zoo and one time I was there just kicking around because why not. So I'm going through their Manatee Springs exhibit and there's this aquarium that I couldn't figure out what was on display. Like, just basic full depth aquarium display, but all I can see is the feeder/cleaner fish, and this great rock just dead center. Now, looking back I assume I was just being an fool who didn't want to just find the sign which told what animal was supposed to be there. And I think maybe I thought the display could just be empty, like the animal is at the vet or whatever. But for whatever reason I just kept looking at this display for *minutes* (seriously, look at basically nothing for a few minutes, it gets really boring, really fast). Maybe whatever was in there was behind this rock, maybe it'll get reintroduced while I'm standing there?
Then the rock moved! I jumped back in surprise and very well may have shouted an exclamation or some sort, I don't really remember that clearly, but sure enough, there was the zoo's foot and a half to two foot long alligator snapping turtle.
Good times. :)
I love how the alligator snapping turtle is just ready to bite the entire time
The summer of 2020, I found a baby alligator snapping turtle walking across my property and it was so cute and so cool!
In 1974 I bought one at a pet store for 5 dollars and it was about the size of a silver dollar. I was living in Boston at the time. I named him Gamera and he was a loving pet where me and my sister could pet him and he would raise his head for us to scratch under his chin. My older brother was always on the bite list because he was mean to him. My brother accidently killed him while helping clean his 150 gallon tank. My brother dropped him on his head and broke his neck killing him instantly. At the time of his death he was the size of a saucer. R.I.P. Gamera.
The San Antonio Zoo has a monster that just turned 28. When I was little I was terrified. The creature was HUGE!
That big one was so damn pissed when he picked 'em up out the water lmao
i remember going to the neighborhood pool one day when i was like 8. and this massive! like the shell was 2 feet in diameter alligator snapping turtle was crossing the road. my sister and i stopped to gawk at it when a neighbor came running out to yell at us not to get close. lol we weren't gonna but he tried getting it off the street and back into the woods by putting this huge branch in front of it while he grabbed its tail. Beast crushed the stick in one bite and had us all freaking out for a bit. it took two full grown men to drag it back into the forest. will never forget that amazing beast!
What an amazing prehistoric looking animal. I LOVE these turtles. That shell is amazing
I've messed around with common snappers, soft shelled turtles... Moved them off roads. These I will not ever mess with lol.
Alligator snappers are some of my favorite animals from childhood! They break the mold of turtles in many ways, and are undeniably awesome :)
I'm also going to plug my idea for a video on amblypygids haha, aka whip spiders, aka tailless whip scorpions (which is a horrible name for them, it's so long and also doesn't make sense. It would be like, instead of saying "dogs," you called them "dwarf long-tailed bears.") I got one as a pet recently and they're such incredibly unique arthropods, not to mention they have very easy but interesting care (I keep mine in a plastic cereal storage container from the dollar store!). Fun to watch, harmless, and an impressive size to boot!
I laughed when the video opened and I just heard the funny little scraping of the turtle as it crawled across the table
2:50 the look on the camera mans face when the turtle gets super close to him lolol
It's open mouth is what I imagine what the Gates of Hell would look like.
When he said "reasonable pet monster" I heard myself laugh. 😂
Up in NY we see huge snapping turtles all of the time. We live by a giant pond and there's an enormous female that you can see like 10 feet away going through the grass to lay eggs. She's so crazy big.
I love them so much!
A youtuber that I love calls the snapping turtles "Mud Dragons" and I honestly cannot disagree with that title.
Imagine "revenge of the snapper" it breaks out of its enclosement and starts eating you while you're asleep
It looks so at peace when it's just lying there.
This brings back memories of me fishing as a kid in a tiny row boat and seeing a snapper almost half the size of my boat. I got so scared! I wondered at the time of he could be in the Guinness book of records. Soooooo amazing! Love these videos!
I keep mine [probably about 9 months old] in a 150 gallon rubbermaid stock tank filled with 60ish gallons and is thriving.
I am the caretaker of a common snapping turtle. He is reaching sexual maturity, and so, he is calmer, and his personality is coming out. He was imprinted on his foster mother, who found baby Rupert near death in a parking lot in 2004. He has now befriended our cat, who likes him as well. The turtle knows her name, and he reacts to her and Mama without snapping.
I love how you said the alligator snapping turtles look like if a teen boy designed a turtle. God went hardcore when creating this thing
The reality is Clint is simply wonderful and an absolute joy to watch interact with all these incredible creatures!
Clints' impression of said turtle was creepy accurate! 😮😆😋
The turtle the whole time: "Please God, let that thing put it's finger near my mouth."
Bowser called, he wants his kid back.
I know it's just my lack of motor skills but Kevin holding that turtle absolutely terrifies me because it looks like he's going to drop it at any time (again, that's just because I'm incapable of balancing anything, not because I don't trust the expert here)
For a hot minute I couldn't remember if the Alligator Snappers had the longer neck and I was getting really anxious watching this.
When I was younger there was a pond near my aunts house that had this huge snapping turtle living in it and whenever people would approach the pond he would pop his head above the water and wait for snacks! People in the area got into the habit of bringing him food occasionally
Normal People: I have a guard dog! UwU
Me: Well I have a guard turtle! UwU
Normal people: …
Feeding him a Slim Jim might not be good, because turtle farts are notoriously deadly (ask any German).
Clint is so cool love his videos!!!
Why does it look so teary-eyed? It's so cute, it's like it's looking at me like this: 🥺
0:29 - Put. Me. Down.... Ok.
I live in Salt Lake City and it’s like a dream of mine to meet Clint because we share the same enthusiasm for reptiles 😍
I cared for a juvenile alligator snapping turtle at a nature center and I absolutely loved them, great friend
That's a turtle where boss music starts playing as soon as you see it.
I actually found an infant of these. I named him Gamera and took care of him for a year until I released him into a nearby swampland
40% head 60% body is a hell of a combo for any animal. Especially a 200lb muck beast