Yeah I said it. Well I'm on my drive home what did i find. Another snapper. This must be natural selections way of getting rid of them (there love of sitting in the middle of roads) or I'm just the king of herps. So I scooped him/her up. I don't know what gender although I think this one is the opposite then the other. I say that because the head was much bigger and oval shaped. Over all this turtle was much bigger and has a much more pronounced tile sort of shell. Can anyone tell me more. Either way he/she is happily on the grass in the little lake doing turtle things.
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The only way I can find to tell apart the genders is that males have a thicker tail and their cloaca is further away from the base of the tail. But I still think any snapper you find away from water this time of year is most likely a laying female.
I didn't know if loan males traveled to look for females
As far as I know they mate in the winter/spring and the females store the sperm until it is needed. It is always possible to find a male out of the water if he is looking for a new place to live, of course, so it could be a male. Just more likely to be a female this time of year.
Psh, for all I know that box could be 1cm^3. A geological scale is needed for proof of this "large" turtle.
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