HAND FEEDING SNAPPING TURTLE 😱🐢‼️ 🐢 🐢 This is a COMMON snapping turtle, not an alligator snapping turtle. Commons are native across much of North America and inhabit ponds and drainage waterways, any freshwater bodies essentially. They can, if trained enough and know where food is coming from, be relatively tame! It seems this fella has become super accustomed to being fed and even comes all the way out of the water! | DanTheTurtleMan

Here is the highly requested slow-mo version of the snapping turtle incident. Doesn’t get much closer than that! 😳 The “bite speed” of a common snapping turtle, referring to how quickly it can strike, is estimated to be up to 174 miles per hour (280 kilometers per hour). This includes the lunging and jaw snapping action, which occurs in a remarkably short time of 4-8 milliseconds!! Even if you think you have fast relaxes, you will not be faster than a striking snapping turtle. I like to conside