I love snappers. So prehistoric, like a croc. Good for you to make this video highlighting how to pick them up safely.

Snapping turtles are my favorite animal! One time I was creek walking and saw one the size of a barrel walking under the water. It was the most beautiful, amazing moment ever. It felt like I was looking at a dinosaur.

'hey buddy, I'm not gonna hurt ya'... pokes a stick into his face

You are super respectful towards the animals and I really appreciate that

"I can feel turtles"

Also to add, pick them up by grabbing both the top and bottom parts of the carapace, just like Beau did. The turtle's backbone is fused to the top shell and if you only lift it up by the top shell it can fatally injure a turtle, especially a heavier species like a snapper.

What the hell am I doing here? I have an essay to write. There aren't even any snapping turtles in my country.

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So cool. This animal has been around since the time of the dinosaurs and we are fortunate to live among them and learn about them today. Thanks for sharing!!!

That guy's a giant! And believe me, I know. I catch snapping turtles everyday in the local ponds and streams in my town! Good job for teaching people not to pick them up by the tail! It drives me nuts when I see videos on Instagram of people doing that!

A wild squirtle appeared!

i found an alligator snapper bought the same size once while working security at a college. I teased it a bit with a stick, but no way could i do what this man does in streams, rivers, and creeks. These animals camoflouge into their surroundings so well that id be afraid of stepping on one while searching for things in the creek beds. Aquachigger is my new Steve Irwin. I love this dudes videos.

Bloody hell they're well hidden from predators, would never know they were there.

You should do a video on the best ways to protect yourself from being drowned by cows.

I found one in the middle of the road in the city. Very busy road and I’m surprised he made it to the middle. He was angry. I blocked traffic with my car while I tried to figure out what to put it in to transport it. He was a big one. So finally I just picked him up and put him in the passenger seat of my 300zx and took him down to a park with some swampy lakes. Fun adventure.

I love snapping turtles, and this video. I really like your careful, gentle approach to picking this guy up. I've been with people who made the mistake of picking one up by the tail - you're never supposed to, because it injures their spines. Good job!

I've seen this type of turtle in a documentary once. They can grow to be a bout ten stories tall. When they retract their limbs they can shoot fire out of he holes and fly. Fascinating creatures.

LMAO. That turtle was pissed. LOL....

How have I been watching Chigg for months, and I just came across this...this is pure gold...Moo.

Came here for the turtles, but I stayed for the cows 😍 they're so cute!!!!

All I can think about is someone getting their toes snapped off lol

Cow whisperer.... you're awesome.

When I was seven years old I lived in South Dakota. In the summer I stayed with my Aunt and Uncle near Burke South Dakota. We would go fishing in Burke lake which was full of snapping turtles. I used a bamboo pole then. My cousins knew when I had a snapper on because I would drop my pole and takeoff running. I was scared to death of them. Thanks to my cousins. They told me if one bites me on the only way to get it off was to wait for a thunder storm and the thunder would scare them away. Karma if you want to call it that way but when I went to put another fish on it there were only fish heads on it except for my northern pike. It had not been touched. Everyone came running as I was laughing my head off. I still don't like those snappers. I enjoyed this video as it brought back memories of a good time.

Good eating. Ol gal brought one by the house she caught in the creek crossing her bridge. She said she would fix it it I got it cleaned. Was 10 years since I thought of them snappers, I keep a close eye out now.

Nice! I caught a big one while fishing once and my friend wanted me to *kill* *it*, cut his throat... *I* *refused!!* I took the hook off his shell and released him.

This video had me holding my fingers he can take all four fingers off with no problem lol, loved the cows :)

Always picked them up by the tail, didn't know it hurt them. Thanks for the cool video!

"Don't ever pick a girl up by its tail" Yes, the closed caption claims that you said this around the 1 minute mark. These videos just became another world of fun :)

You are quite entertaining my friend. I grew up like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. I have caught a few of these nasty looking critters in my time and you truly do have to respect their jaws. Loved the interacting with Bessie the Heifer as well. Peace.

Interesting, snapping turtles are one thing I won't mess with period.

That moment when your sleeping in your bed at night, and from the inside your closet you hear “I can feel turtles...”

I just had to laugh when you just kept pokin' at him at 7:55. XD

your videos are very interesting and fun to watch keep it up!!

i like turtles

lol your videos never cease to amaze me

Very informative! Thank you for taking the time to make this video.

Tame cows! When I was a kid I used to catch red-eared sliders. You have to hold them by the back end of their shell, too. Long necks and they bite hard. I learned the hard way (fortunately with a very small specimen). I love that you are so sympathetic with the critters you meet.

I kinda feel Steve irwins spirit on you good sir... just plain admiration for the animal without any intent on hurting it and for that I like you.. in fact I have my own snapper love him/her so much hehe

I never expected anyone to be thus cool. This guy has videos about everything.

I love how respectful you are to the snapping turtle! Good on you! 🐢

Yo Beau, Cool video, nice snapper.. almost as vicious as the two legged one i live with!!!! :( (sshhh dont tell her i said that!!!) cheers,G:)

Thank you for this video! I live by a river and usually see snappers in the road. I always want to help them cross but I was just scared to lose a finger.

Haha loved the comment about the cows 'hope they don't drown me' haha brilliant!!!

The turtleman does grab them by their tail but also puts his other hand on the bottom of the shell to keep from hurting them because he also says it can hurt them by holding by just the tail

Thanks for this video! I love turtles but snapping turtle is little creepy

you live in such a beautiful state, I have to know what state your in

It's usually the one messing with the snappers that end up being called "Stubby". First one I saw was when I was about 6. My grandfather stopped the car as we watched it cross the road. Very, very, very, very, slowly. And it was HUGE!

I saved an alligator snapper once. She must have climbed out of the lake and somehow wondered onto highway 161. A car hit her and I made my friend stop. She was HUGE, they cracked off the front of her shell but she was okay. I took her home and bought her a big pool and our yard was fenced in with a wooden fence so she could go to the pool and get out and walk around the back yard. I called her Queen Bitch cause she was always snapping at me. lol But I loved her. Thank you for being so kind to turtles. :)

Got it. ALWAYS pick up turtles by the tail.

Nice vid man. I hate seeing people pick up snapping turtles by their tails. It's just cruel.

Nice to see coach Mora enjoying himself after his stint with the N.O.Saints! 😁

This is better than t.v and the guy makes the video entertaining to watch.I loved and laughed when he went, "I'm gonna give him a little bath."

He forgot to say if you find a dead one; It's okay to pick that one up by the tail.

There's something very freaky about a turtle that eats snakes and birds, for some reason.

oh my gosh. my little brother watches you and now i see why, your freaken awsome and funny XD great job!

I found a snapping turtle roaming about very close to the busy road we live on, so I figured rather than seeing him dead in the road later, I'd pick him up and move him back to the pond behind our house. I'm sure that is where he came from anyway. I figured I could handle it, he wasn't quite as big as the one in this video. I'd seen the turtle man show and remembered the way he handled them, so I picked him up by the tail at arms length and walked him all the way back to the pond and let him go. I'm sure I saved his life, but I feel bad now picking him up wrong. :( Thanks for educating the folks on the right way to pick up a snapping turtle.

cows are so cute

i like turtles. type that in the search bar of youtube. you wont regret it

Like your relaxed style! Thanks for the info.🐢 Tried to move one of these out of the road today: too vicious. Guided him to the curb.

I was enjoying myself fishing once, and this father and his 6 year old son came right up next to me and started fishing too. I would have been irritated by this but the dad was just teaching his son how to fish. I talked with them a little bit and the son hooked a snapping turtle. I helped them land it because it was a heavy sucker. When the dad took the hook out of the turtles mouth, the hook was bent into a straight line. That kid lost his favorite lure that day, but he can say the first thing he ever caught was a turtle. Fun day

I caught a alligator snapping turtle in New Mexico I think someone put him in the stream tho

It’s amazing how beautiful Gods creation is. Praise God.

wonderful video. I'm supposed to be asleep but I can't stop watching your videos!! keep em coming. I loved your little cow run in

Very cool video! Once in the country near a river there was a huge, mud encrusted snapping turtle on the road and we needed to wait 20 minutes for it to move!

Looks like good eating to me,,, and To anyone that says Turtles are not food ,, lol,,, No more hamburgers for you.,,,, or Chicken ,,, or Fish,,,but remember this ( Alligator Turtle's are protected by law) The one in the video is the snapping turtle,,,

You should put a common snapping turtle in a box, and give it to your worst enemy for christmas. Make sure that it says, "shake before opening". I'm kidding, of course; I would never do that to the poor turtle, but it's funny to joke about it.

"Once I was swimming cross Turtle Creek Many snappers all around my feet. Sure was hard swimming cross that thing With both hands holdin' my Ding-a-ling-a-ling"...........Chuck Berry 'My Ding-a-ling'. Great vid Beau, peace to you and yours from the UK.

As my child is saying, "All that work, and no turtle dinner?" A friend of mine grew up eating those things. I can remember stopping by to visit, and there being a pile of freshly cleaned shells in the front yard.

I love beef... But cows are so cute... I wish I was a psychopath, everything would be so simple

omggggggg turtle

Thanks Aquachigger, but I won't be needing your advice today or EVER. I'm not going anywhere near one of those things ROFLMAO. I'll just sit in the safety of my home and WATCH YOU DO IT. That's more than CLOSE enough for me! Thanks just the same!

Beau, I came across another snapping turtle yesterday in the road, but this time I was more prepared and I put my gloves on first and also it was just a little bigger that my hands clasped together. It was a lot nicer and It didn't try to bit at all. I got out of the road a good distance and I noticed another car and a lady got out but further down the road and said that was what she was going to do was get it out of the road. She was quite a distance away from the baby snapping turtle and I just got back in my car myself when another car that was in a hurry drove around me. Some people are only concerned about themselves. If you stop and think about it there were two cars stopped going different directions and here comes some jerk and flies around us without stopping to make sure we were okay. Anyhow if we didn't stop to rescue this baby snapping turtle this person that flew around us would have more than likely ran the poor thing over and it would have become vulture food.

Is that a snake in the water at 5:17?

lol don't moo at them you have no clue what you are saying to them. Last time I moo'ed at a cow it charged me.

I had no idea that snapping turtles lived in my area until i saw one swimming in a creek near my house. They are truly amazing creatures. I also once found a baby snapping turtle while kayaking, and let it bite my knuckle, it was so cute.

Lol, the cows are checking you out like "Who's this guy?"

*That moment when you look at the title again* "And I may not even pick him up becuuuz, I don't really trust turtles very much" *🧐*

why dont u leave them turtles alone?

As a kid in Minnesota, we all knew to carry sticks around the lakes. For the Snapping turtles. When you see one have it bite down on the stick and then it can't bite you. Make sure it is a real hard stick though because they will snap it in half! Better than your fingers!

I picked up a snapping turtle once from behind, just as described in the video (although it wasn't the type of turtle shown in this video), and the turtle suddenly snaked out her very long neck and reached all the way back and almost bit me! I dropped her in shock and surprise and her bottom shell cracked as she landed hard on a rock in the creek below... a hairline crack, but a crack all the same. She came every year to lay her eggs in the same place in the garden near the little creek that ran behind my house, and I felt so bad that I had inadvertently injured her, I never picked up a turtle again. I don't know if she ever came back to lay eggs as we moved the following year. But I still think about that turtle and wish I had just left her alone and admired her from afar. This was the only time I damaged an animal in my life, and I did not want to make that same mistake twice. Love all living creatures and want them to have a simple, safe life as much as possible with or without me being involved. Now I love nature and simply "observe from afar."

Nah...I like my fingers. Rather attached to them.

This guy reminds me of Trevor Philips hehe.

Baby Fox, Hellgrammite, One Eyed Cats, Beaver sunning at the dam, Eat More Chickin- Luv me some animals!! (Still say it's a UFO). GL & HH '15!!

Thank you for telling people to not hurt them. They aren't evil. They are scared, and just want to be left alone. Watch the video called Why you never should tease a snapping turtle. They can jump up and bite if they are scared. Please leave them alone. They aren't mean. The snap is to help them catch a fish or frog to eat fast, before it gets away. Respect all life. 🙂

Put your finger in the mouth

I don't think I wanna eat beef anymore

Very cool. When I was a child, we would swim in quarries and would come across a few nests. I also remember a snapping turtle soup.

Beau you're entertaining man! Keep up the good work

I know you don't harm them in any way, but I don't think it's right to cheer people on to find turtles and pick them up. They're hiding for a reason. Leave the poor sods alone.

FAKE! This is not metal detecting. Turtles shells are made out of ROCK, not metal. Keep living in your little fantasy world where turtles are made out of metal and we'll see how far you go in life. Aside from that, I appreciate the PSA about how to pick up dogs by the tail.

aquachigger your vid is so great i love to see people hunt and fish its great to see that keep up the good work i want to go and catch a snapper im 40 now but i caught one with my dad when i was like 18 but your vid make me want to go and catch one thank you and keep up the go work

Thank you for the video. I also love your attitude towards animals. You are a good man.

Great info! And you're awesome for encouraging good treatment! I love getting outdoors and enjoying critters. Sometimes keeping them for a few days for me and my kids to enjoy and then returning them to their homes unharmed.

Thank you so much for really highlighting the fact to NEVER pick them up by their tails... You wouldn't believe that people still argue the fact that it's ok to do that; even people with self-proclaimed degrees in the study

Oh, and JMO, you do not talk to much, that is what makes the videos interesting. Plus you have a great voice. lol

Hey Beau, I just had to watch this video again. I love all Turtles 🐢, including Snappers. They are so beautiful and fascinating, like a modern day dinosaur! I'm very careful when I pick them up, and move them out of the roads. This was such a cool video! I really appreciate you sharing this one! Your Friend, Kari in Texas

"I don't really trust turtles"... Ion think they trust you either 🤣🤣🤣

Love how you emphasize how to not hurt the animals.

What I do,is use the tail just to hold him in place,then slide my hand under his body & lift him that way. Never been bitten & never been clawed,either. Always works & I'm 61,so I've done it for a few years!

As always, thanks’ for taking the time to make this video! And I support this site. ~M~