Sentences with phrase «of alligator snapping»

«If we succeed with our project in introducing a new, viable population of alligator snapping turtles, it's likely that no one will see them,» Phillips said.

Conservation of coastal rivers of the northern Gulf of Mexico is vital to the survival of the alligator snapping turtle, including two recently discovered species, University of Florida scientists say.

Thomas said the species» survival remains a concern due to its restricted range and Florida law prohibits the possession, capture and pursuit of alligator snapping turtles.

Taxonomic assessment of Alligator Snapping Turtles (Chelydridae: Macrochelys), with the description of two new species from the southeastern United States

Not exact matches

Two of Reid's divers have been bitten by alligators or whacked by their tails; another surrendered a finger to a snapping turtle.

After getting a few pictures snapped (ha, no pun intended), the alligator handler filled out a certificate of bravery for Julian and had the alligator bite the paper to «make it official.»

Because of the species» engendered status, it's illegal to hunt alligator snapping turtles in Illinois.

The scissors probably weren't needed today: Patsy the «alligator snapping turtle» has a set of jaws so powerful she could have cut the ribbon herself.

Until early in the 20th century, alligator snapping turtles were plentiful from headwaters in the Midwest into swamps of the Deep South, but «river turtles were hit hard in the 1960s and 1970s,» Roman says.

«They hardly ever come onto land, and they don't swim in seawater either,» he says, which helps explain how a distinct species arose, in the case of the Suwannee alligator snapping turtle, in just one river.

When Soares placed alligators in darkened tanks half filled with water, plugging their ears to eliminate sound cues, she found that the alligators reliably turned and snapped at disturbances caused by a single drop of water.

Turtles — like this alligator snapping turtle Macrochelys temminckii — are a diverse group of animals with a hotly contested evolutionary history.

In October 2014, when Illinois Natural History Survey herpetologist Chris Phillips donned a wetsuit and dove to the bottom of Clear Creek in Union County, Illinois, he was looking for a young male alligator snapping turtle with a radio transmitter on its back.

«Finding this individual does not indicate that there is a functional, stable population of wild alligator snapping turtles in Southern Illinois,» Kessler said.

For years, INHS researchers have conducted extensive trapping, and have called for citizen observations along Clear Creek for signs of wild alligator snapping turtles, but to no avail.

That confirms the long - held suspicions of naturalists who knew that alligator snappers — unlike their closest relative, the common snapping turtleÖrarely venture onto land or into salt water.

VIOLENCE / GORE 4 - A super-villain has a woman chloroformed and kidnapped: he ties her to a chair, lowers spinning wheels from the ceiling toward her (they contain by turns a chainsaw blade, spiked boots, sharp blades and a flamethrower), he opens a sliding floor to show snapping alligators that we see twice, a spider lowers on a strand of webbing, the villain says it's deadly, the woman blows it into his eye and he screams.

Dr. Rahm has a special interest in reptile medicine and during his senior year in veterinary school was able to participate in externships with two prominent reptile medicine specialists, where he was able to assist in treating various animals such as alligators, sea turtles, Burmese pythons, and snapping turtles, while also taking part in trap / neuter and release efforts with the wild population of iguanas in the Florida Keys.

Feeding a puppy to an alligator snapping turtle does not illustrate the «circle of life.»