🐢 Cookie - A Common Snapping Turtle: The Ultimate Opportunist! Ever wonder what makes the Common Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina) one of nature’s most successful survivors? It’s all about the diet! 🍽️ Watch Cookie show off those lightning-fast reflexes in 10X slow motion as he takes down a hornworm. In the wild, these turtles aren’t picky eaters—they are the definition of opportunistic omnivores. If they can catch it, they will eat it. What’s on the menu? Snapping turtles will eat almost

Alligator Snapping Turtle vs Common Snapping Turtle! Often confused for one another the prehistoric looking Alligator Snapping Turtle and the more widespread Common Snapping Turtle are two very distinct species. Coyote will compare the two side by side to show you each ones unique features so you will better understand their individual traits and be able to properly identify them if you see one in the wild! | Brave Wilderness

The common snapping turtle is a species that lives in freshwater. Their natural habitat extends from southeastern Canada, to the Rocky Mountains, northeast close Nova Scotia and south all the way to Florida. They are omnivores, and their diet consists of plants, insects, worms, snakes, fish and small animals. Currently, the Common Snapping Turtle is not considered a vulnerable species. Their cousins, the Alligator Snapping Turtles, are a threatened species in Texas, and some other states have im