The snapping turtle knows how to defend itself. With one bite it can crack bones, its claws are used to defends itself as well as with a stinking secretion. Being a lurking hunter sit waits for its prey while being buried in the mud to then snap it blazingly fast.
Category: other
Weight: up to 16 kg
Size: shell length up to 45 cm
Breeding duration: depending on the temperature 9 - 18 weeks
Age: 40 up to 100 years
Sexually mature: from 20cm height
Reproduction: 10- 30 eggs
food: fish, amphibians, reptiles, small mammals, carrion
Way of life: water with dense vegetation and a muddy ground
Danger: not endangered
distribution: North America
