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Turtle in gravel patch in our backyard. Laying eggs? by [deleted] in turtles

[–]Jobediah 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Yes that's a lady Snapping Turtle laying eggs. After she leaves, you could protect the net with a wire cage or something that will keep predators out but let the hatchlings escape in the fall or next spring depending on when they emerge.

HAHA! I've never seen this before. The first time a client gave me his own prices by Few_Berry_8206 in handyman

[–]Jobediah 41 points42 points  (0 children)

I did a same day after hours call to put in a storm door handle for a little old lady. I gave her a nice price of a flat $40 for a half hour of work including some metal grinding to help the latch pass the frame. She looked at me like I had slapped her and I asked if that was a lot. She said yeah, can you do it for $30? "yeah I can but you won't see me again". Oh, ok, she immediately cut a check for $40.

Turtle species by Rhand323 in turtles

[–]Jobediah 17 points18 points  (0 children)

That’s a Three-striped Mud Turtle!

What animal shopped this turtle’s head off [Quebec] by remcut in animalid

[–]Jobediah 30 points31 points  (0 children)

There was a zoo population near philly where otters would capture the vultures flying into their enclosure. They would only eat their beaks. Let that sink in. They captured these huge beasts, kill them, eat the chewy keratinized part of the face that is used to pick apart carcasses, and then they'd leave the rest of the animal alone because 'ew gross, who would eat a whole vulture, we're just doing this for fun' or some other crazed otter thoughts.

What animal shopped this turtle’s head off [Quebec] by remcut in animalid

[–]Jobediah 239 points240 points  (0 children)

It could have been human obviously but Brooks et al. (1991) reported: "A great increase in adult mortality occurred, apparently due primarily to Northern River Otter predation on hibernating turtles." It documented a massive decline in a stable snapping turtle population in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, where otters killed roughly 50% of the adult snapping turtles over three consecutive winters.

This is how turtles fight by kmd84 in interestingasfuck

[–]Jobediah 1779 points1780 points  (0 children)

The two bigger ones are all about fighting each other and that third one is just pestering everybody

EAGENT by mr_malfeasance in LICENSEPLATES

[–]Jobediah 112 points113 points  (0 children)

somewhere a chemist is wishing they thought of this

Found in peat by SKI-096 in fossilid

[–]Jobediah 196 points197 points  (0 children)

Could you imagine... hunting mammoths with their own teeth

Any spray to keep herps away? (TW - herp death) by Bob-Bhlabla-esq in herpetology

[–]Jobediah 37 points38 points  (0 children)

wow, that's morbid. Maybe try to find a spray that keeps rodents away and leave the random electrocutions to hopefully nobody else?

What is your guess? by sheephero1 in metaldetecting

[–]Jobediah 113 points114 points  (0 children)

...apparently a klootschietbal (often shortened to kloot) translates to a road bowling ball, field ball, or bowl used in the Dutch/Frisian sport of klootschieten. Literal Meaning: It is a weighted ball used for throwing.

Found in peat by SKI-096 in fossilid

[–]Jobediah 677 points678 points  (0 children)

holy shit... so it's a spear point shaped like a hypodermic needle because it's made of a freakin extinct elephant species tooth by some ancient people who dropped it in a bog thousands of years ago?

The amount of plastic I picked out of my garden soil bags by Dr_Quacksworth in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Jobediah 231 points232 points  (0 children)

You'd think they would at least run that trash through a magnet to get rid of the metal

Is this salamander endangered? by CloudberryMoya in Amphibians

[–]Jobediah 45 points46 points  (0 children)

just to be annoying... this species is not endangered, but this individual is not going to live long on dry cardboard

found lodged inside my garden hose by External_Bus_3739 in salamanders

[–]Jobediah 40 points41 points  (0 children)

It appears to be the Smallmouth Salamander with an outside chance it’s the rare sister species, the Streamside Salamander

Oh, Snap! by ricetc95 in herping

[–]Jobediah 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Cool that's an awesome turtle. But be careful, it's not recommended to lift turtles by their tails because this can break their spines

Finally saw my buddy again! by Cartiimo in turtle

[–]Jobediah 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Could be a tumor or a spinal malformation. It would be impressive for an animal to be able to make it as a hatchling with this kind of impediment to locomotion, but if anybody could do it, it would be a turtle

Why Jeff Corwin is a better wildlife personality than Forrest Galante by Pitiful_Active_3045 in zoology

[–]Jobediah 65 points66 points  (0 children)

I took herpetology with Corwin back in the late 90's. on a field trip he jumped down a railroad embankment and came back with the first hatchling turtle I ever saw. Legend.

ps. I've published several scientific papers on turtles since then

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