Rediscovery

The turtles I've had experience with were all armored pretty thoroughly, so it was something of a surprise to discover that a foot-long snapper didn't slide when I tried to shove it out of the middle of the road with an ice scraper. (A 3 foot long scraper, of course!) Pried it over (briefly, they're quick)--and the bottom of the thing was mostly leather.

Yes, I tried getting it to bite onto the scraper--it kept letting go after about a second, so I couldn't lift it. Maybe it didn't like plastic.

It would have been nice to have a smart phone and a data package--I'd have searched the web and found out how to pick them up. Though I'm not sure I'd have cared to try the experiment for the first time on one so large.