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Index of Subjects To Fred, neat! Thanks for forwarding the Algonquin Park snapper story. It's good to read that junk food such as wieners and bacon apparently did no harm to it. Of course, snapping turtles may be the exception to the following rule: Wildlife and human food shouldn't mix. Dusan Soudek ---- "Frederick W. Schueler" <bckcdb@istar.ca> wrote: > * here's Matt Keevil's response to this. Matt is doing his Ph.D. on > Snapping Turtle dispersal and population genetics in Algonquin Park in > Ontario. > > fred. > ===================================================== > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Fwd: [NatureNS] a wiener-eating snapping turtle !!! > Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 02:10:52 +0000 > From: keevilm@gmail.com > Reply-To: keevilm@gmail.com > To: Frederick W. Schueler <bckcdb@istar.ca> > > Hotdogs seem to be a popular junkfood item among snapping turtles. > Henry, the big hand feeding snapper at the Lake Opeongo [Algonquin Park, > Ontario] docks has been fed a pack of hot dogs in one sitting by the > owner of the outfitter store there (he also eats apple slices, > earthworms, pumpkinseeds and perch, trout guts, and bacon.) He very big > (41cm Carapace Length, 17.5kg) but his weight is just about exactly what > would be expected for a turtle that size. There is a smaller male at the > same site that also sometimes comes for food. > > I've heard a bunch of stories of people hand feeding snappers and I > suspect this sort of habituation might explain other instances of people > reporting being approached by snappers. > > -Matt > ------Original Message------ > Subject: [NatureNS] a wiener-eating snapping turtle !!! > Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 20:38:30 -0300 > From: Dusan Soudek <soudekd@ns.sympatico.ca> > To: NatureNS <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> > > Members of my canoeing party were highly surprised (and amused!) by a > wiener-eating snapping turtle. The creature was totally wild, and large, > with a carapace length estimated at nearly 40 cm. It was proudly shown > to us by some campers at a popular access point to Hants County's > Herbert River. > The campers, who spend every Victoria Day weekend at the same site, feed > it raw wieners. They have been doing so for the last seven years. They > recognize "their" individual by an unusual mark on its carapace, > possibly an old scar. Apparently it "took them a long time to establish > trust," as one of the campers explained to me. > I witnessed the turtle swimming after and swallowing a floating piece of > wiener, and minutes earlier other members of my crew witnessed the wild > turtle being hand-fed. > It looks like the annual Victoria Day weekend feast on processed meat > does no visible harm to the ancient turtle.... Any other tame wild > snapping turtle stories? > Dusan Soudek > > -- > > fred > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad > Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm > Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm > Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/ > South Nation Basin Art & Science Book > http://pinicola.ca/books/SNR_book.htm > RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0 > on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W > (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network > -- > > fred > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad > Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm > Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm > Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/ > South Nation Basin Art & Science Book > http://pinicola.ca/books/SNR_book.htm > RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0 > on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W > (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------ >
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