OK, I'll buy that........what the heck, alligators like to "age" their meals
before dining, and I've eaten Gator-meat.
BG
> I'm not sure but I think they have to eat in the water. As for carrion I
have
> to admit that carrion couldn't be a large part of a snapping turtles diet
in
> a normal environment. I really don't see that much dead stuff laying
around
> so they would have to eat at least mostly live food but I really don't see
a
> snapper turning his nose up at anything dead either. Like most predators
they
> would be opportunistic, even a lion will scavenge if it gets the chance.
How
> about that BG, sound ok? Only a flying animals can truly be 100% carrion
> eater because only a flyer can cover enough territory to find enough dead
> stuff. So you have buzzards which if given the chance will eat a helpless
> live animal so I guess nothing is 100%.
>
>
> Moon
>
>
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