How can turtles disappear so quickly??
This isn't the first time this has happened to me. Like Allen Griggs I rescue box turtles crossing busy roads. Sometime I take them across the road, sometimes I take them home and release them in my backyard.
Yesterday I brought a box turtle home and placed it in my backyard. 10 minutes later I went out just to see if I could find the turtle. Nope. I'll bet I've done this 40 or 50 times over the years. In less than half an hour they are gone never to be seen again.
How can they disappear so completely, so quickly??
The outdoors so fascinates me!!
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I once watched a turtle crossing the bottom of a clear stream disappear. He just kind of sank into the mud while digging with all 4 legs. I was startled how fast he vanished.
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They cover more ground than you would guess, over 100 feet in a couple of minutes.
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I golf on a course that's on a lake. This time of the year they're all over the place!
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I try to save the terrapins, box turtles and snapping turtles also.
I was carrying a snapping turtle of about 5 lbs by it's tail to help it get around a chain link fence and next thing I knew it had ahold of my britches leg. Them snapper have long necks and stout jaws. I've heard people say that once a snapper latchs on they do not release their jaws until it thunders.
A small snag was in the levis when he finally turned loose. If the jeans had been little tighter he would have probably got a taste of blood.
Years ago before they dammed up the Arkansas river for Lake Eufaula I went seining for fish bait wirth couple of older guys and every once in awhile they would get a 60-80 lb snapper.
See a guy that lost a toe to a snapper when seining barefoot in that area.
They would put the big turtle in galvanized wash tubs and feed them little live chickens and small live birds. Most generally the snapper would just lay still in the tub and when the bird got in front of his nose one snap and a strectch of the throat and nothing left.
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Good for you for saving turtles. I have read that turtles are very territorial, if you move them more than 200 yards, they will spend the rest of their life trying to get back to the home turf.
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Got a big snapper by my dock that tears the hell out any crab traps I put in the water. His head is about as big as a softball.
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@allen griggs is CORRECT! Please don't relocate them. If they are crossing a road, take them across I'm the direction they are going, otherwise they will just turn around and cross anyways.
If you move them, more than likely the will die! 🥺
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"Good for you for saving turtles. I have read that turtles are very territorial, if you move them more than 200 yards, they will spend the rest of their life trying to get back to the home turf."
I heard something similar. If you "help" a turtle across a busy road by moving it the wrong direction, you double the risk.
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Well, I don't know if relocating a turtle will cause it more harm but I do think it has a better chance with me moving it than crossing four lanes of traffic on a busy hardroad.
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It is a little-known fact that whenever they find a ship or plane previously lost in the Bermuda Triangle, they always find a live little green Woolworth turtle either at the helm or in the pilot's seat.
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We have signs on our driveway.
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That reminds me of a guy watching TV when he hears a noise by the front door. He opens the door and looks all around and sees no one. Then he happens to look down and spots a small turtle. He picks it up and tosses it out into the yard.
Three years later he is startled by a loud knock at the door. When he opens it he sees an angry, sweating turtle. The turtle glares at him and shouts " WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT?"
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This isn't the first time this has happened to me. Like Allen Griggs I rescue box turtles crossing busy roads. Sometime I take them across the road, sometimes I take them home and release them in my backyard.
Yesterday I brought a box turtle home and placed it in my backyard. 10 minutes later I went out just to see if I could find the turtle. Nope. I'll bet I've done this 40 or 50 times over the years. In less than half an hour they are gone never to be seen again.
How can they disappear so completely, so quickly??
The outdoors so fascinates me!!
They walk, obviously.
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