• jaybone@lemmy.zip
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    5 days ago

    Will those little guys take a chunk of your thumb off? I’ve heard stories of people losing arms to bigger turtles when they go noodling. Maybe those are tall tales, but either way don’t go noodling.

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      5 days ago

      Probably not the tortoise in the picture, since they are herbivores. But certainly a species of snapping turtle, top of the list would be an alligator snapping turtle. I wouldn’t doubt it could rip off an entire limb.

      Read up on those monsters. They can live up to 200 years in extreme cases, they found one alive with a musket shot still in it from the civil war era.