Zarley!

Oh yes they will take ducks, musk rats, other turtles.

Why would you interfere with the cycle of life? Are you god?

Actually, I think the comment about possibly saving the porcupine has generated some good educational discussion. There are always several ways to look at a situation. Another way to look at the encounter is that it happened in about 4 feet of water in a flowage. That means that all of the porcupine's trees were cut down and a dam was built that totally changed the landscape in that area and turned a forested area into shallow lake. The logs and the turtle would not even have been there if someone had not already modified the natural cycle. With an abundance of porcupines with few predators, it is actually good to see that there is another animal helping keep the number of porcupines in check. A discussion of a man made flowage being a good thing or bad thing would be the type of thing that could create massive flame wars that I would like to avoid. Thanks for adding to the discussion!

2kayakcampers Great Shit you caught here be proud!!! You don't have to explain to every shit head that comes along. This is an awesome catch of the circle of life maybe you should think of trying to get National Geographic to buy it off you make some cash!!!!

Wow shame on camera guy

They'll eat anything

I guess they'll eat human too if they're big enough and got the chance

Royal Rumble, not true. It depends on what type of turtle it is. as some turtle species are herbivores. tortoises for example will only eat plants.

@@SteelRhinoXpress Snapping turtle, not box turtle. Watch the video.

They as in turtles.

Shawn P is shreddeder actually a porcupine

i dont get it

no, Raphael

@Oh My Mod lol

You're a deucebag

When nature calls i relieve myself. It's not like someone should stop me. Know what i mean?

Karl McAydey - So if you were being attacked by a Crocodile or an Anaconda you would tell me not to interfere?

Marcfj Not even remotely the same thing and you know that.

Sporf Sporf - On the contrary, the only difference is in your own subjective mind. In reality, there is not a shred of difference and YOU KNOW THAT!

Marcfj. If you say so. It's clear no productive conversation is to be had here. I won't say it's wrong to help the porcupine, I certainly understand the sentiment, but to compare not doing so to allowing a fellow human to be killed by a wild animal is ludacris. The reality of it is quite different.

You're no Alpha that's for sure

@@jaygo71 So an alpha is someone who swims is predator infested waters? Nah.

@@kombokhan no a alpha eats the predators.

We've swam in rivers, lakes, ponds, creeks, since we were kids, 30 yrs, no turtle attacks yet, although some kid did suffer a cottonmouth bite, he lived though.

Tron Why don't you come down to Louisiana on a really hot year and go swimming

Lol "Chef Snapping," I wish someone would Photoshop a little chef's hat on its head.

I always say that the more time you spend out in nature, the more chance for random awesomeness to occur. It was pure luck to catch this. My kids complained once when we were in Florida that we spent 30 minutes watching one bird, but that is what sometimes pays off. If we had not spent 15 minutes watching the cute little porcupine, and had paddled on instead, we would have missed the whole thing. The same thing happened in our Spring Island 2014 video. There is video and photos in there of a pair of coastal wolves munching on what is left of a sea otter. I was dawdling behind the other paddlers in our group and saw some more awesomeness. The next day my wife and I went back with one of the guides to see if they were still there and got some good shots. Not great because the lighting was very flat and it was windy and overcast, but the experience was amazing.

Your Friendly Neighbourhood Doggo I was thinking more of Koopa Troopa vs Porcupo

Your Friendly Neighbourhood Doggo I'd buy you a beer for that if I could, cheers

More like Gamera vs Jiger

*Gamera vs Anguirus*

Your Friendly Neighbourhood Doggo Gamera vs Angirus

he paid for his supper with pain.

@@artstrology it was just eating

Those will probably never come out.

TheNoisePolluter That poor snapping turtle made a bad choice on which animal to hunt, the ones that probably are going to end up in his throat while he's eating it are going to kill the turtle, it probably die after eating that porcupine..

@Edwin Reveron I don’t think so I’ve caught a lot of snapping turtles and every single one have easiest passed the very large fishing hooks that they swallow. So I think he’ll be just fine.

JoyLaLuna you watched that video too? what's going with these recommendation videos. I'm expecting a video of an eagle eating the otter by now.

@@TheFlamingReconz I'm expecting a video where a turtle avenges the other turtle

@@themusicstash2696 Mustelids are the ninja of mother nature. So that slow snapper got no chance.. how many times did the otter flips before he kills. Too many advantages

Otters can kill lots of things you would not expect them to be able to kill. I feel bad for the turtle in that video, got his intestines sucked out through his ass while he was still alive.

Lol i have already said that i saw that and thought poor turtle! Now i think fck the turtles!

Who posted this comment? I didn,t

@@badgoodweather Seriously? That's pretty weird if it's true

lol you let someone use your phone?

Quite a time to just realize about this now.

And now who's going to remove all those quills from the snapping turtle!?! Lol

@@a.toliver-cunningham7984 The turtle has a shell lol

I've been curious as to what animal could defeat a porcupine. I hadn't considered a snapping turtle which is built for the task. Im thinking that a Hippo with it's tough skin could get the job done as well.

Collector Guy it's called nature

Same thing. :) Life is so versatile.

So the turtle should starve?

@@ashurafreedan clearly, it's an exaggeration and a joke. C'mon.

@@ashurafreedan - whatever! stick to fish ffs

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thamnophis14 Yurtle the turtle, king of the pond.

@@dancepiglover until the otter murder snapping turtle like it was nothing haha

Yeah in a follow up vid in the same pond an otter completely mauls a snapping turtle, i think it was the same one

Joseph Lalhmachhuana thats not a adult aligator snaping turtle otter fanboy. a young common snapping turtle

Nah snapping turtles literally dont let go and are strong af. I dont think the porcupine could have got away if it wanted to

Lp

Heather Talsma you should see an alligator snapping turtle they're 4 times that size

Dick McGee i grew up in SC and i put a broom stick to get the alligator snapper to bite it, and it literally made toothpicks of what was it the bite radius.

Dave Hartnett haha yeah I'm from Texas I've caught baby snapping turtles with my hand. They're amazing animals

Dick McGee dinosaurs if you wanna get down to it just raw instinct and power over time with evolving very little.

I have never seen an alligator snapper but from what I have read, they are quite a bit bigger than the common snapping turtle. I need to spend a little more time kayaking in the south to see one of those I guess.

That was kinda random thoughts, but I'm with ya.

2kayakcampers With having a zoom on your camera what is your reason coming in right on top of the turtle and bothering him? If you were the turtle would you have liked someone getting in your face as you did? You definitely did bother the turtle, every time the turtle surfaced and you made a noise he submerged. The video was good, and it would have been just as good shot from 10' away, and you would have not been rude with your intrusion.

The pictures of the porcupine where taken at a long distance so as not to disturb the little fella. After the turtle drowned the porcupine we realized that we were witnessing something that may not have ever been witnessed before, and had never been recorder before. All of the action that was going to occur after that point in time was going to be under water and the only way to photograph it was to get in close enough to be pointing the camera down into the water because of the logs and the reflection on the water. Without doing that, we would not know that the porcupine was successful in quilling the turtle and to what extent. We would also not know that the turtle was eating the porcupine and how they do that. He definitely knew I was there and realized that I was not a threat to him or he would not have continued eating. Did I disturb the turtle, a little bit I am sure, but in this particular case, I think it was justified. I have not seen any nature or guide book that lists porcupines as a food for snapping turtles.

I see "no" importance of "you" knowing if the porcupine was successful in quilling the turtle and to what extent. There are only (2) reasons an animal kills another animal, to eat or mate. What reason or purpose, for you, justified disturbing the turtle?

In my opinion, The turtle was not disturbed any more than a canoe disturbs the fish below or the bark of a neighbors dog disturbs the birds and squirrels in my prairie, walking on grass disturbs the worm below or mowing a lawn with a gas operated lawn mower that disturbs everything. It is not about what I know, the video is being looked at by the educational and scientific community and is adding one very small piece to mans understanding of nature. The more we understand and learn about nature the more we love it and are willing to protect it and the better we are able to pass that reverence on to the next generation. (Paraphrasing from Song of the paddle by Bill Mason)

Whiteprick Quit being a bitch.

or just share with us instead of making it about money, it's nature and special but why monetize it. I appreciate the video thank you

Actually, I thought the same thing. I thought that the porcupine was eating something off the bottom because it kept moving slightly in the water. Then I realized that the porcupine was already dead and he movement was caused by the snapping turtle eating it from underneath. It was actually drowned early in the video.

+2kayakcampers Are you positive? I think that the snapping turtle is eating something out of the porcupine's mouth that the porcupine caught!?!? Otherwise, there would be a lot of thrashing, pulling, and, tearing; and, the porcupine, if even if dead, would be moving erratically. At this point, I'm not sure!?!?

+classiclistener01 At 5:37 into the video, you are looking at the head end of the porcupine and it is intact as far as I can tell. The entrails have been pulled out of the belly of the porcupine. How much thrashing about is related to the weight of the porcupine vs the size of the mouthful that the turtle is taking. I had a turtle take a chunk out of the web of my hand between the thumb and first finger. There was no tug at all he just bit it off. It was only an eight of an inch or so. Also, the porcupine is a herbivore so it only eats plants and would not have a fish or anything like that in its mouth. I am going to look it up but I do not think there is any protection on the belly of a porcupine. It would not make sense to have quills there because if they fall, and that does happen, the quills would probably puncture vital organs. Great question though!

derpfrog what the fuck

Shut the fuck up you autistic cringelord

@@Vntichrist 😅😅

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Good point

Are you a 12 year old with no imagination from 10 years ago?

yes then they just sat there they probably pushed it in the water they seen it was drowning and did nothing~! great photography watching something die

shut up pansey

sevenrats looks like the turtle didn't feel a thing

Snapping turtles have what I would call a bad attitude when they are on land. They are not friendly and will use their sharp beak like mouth to bite hard. I tried to move a smaller one that was in the road about 10 years ago and had to give up. Very grumpy! When I was young, someone caught one in a fishing net on a small lake in central Wisconsin. It was a medium sized one and I grabbed it on both sides of the shell just in front of the back feet. His head started moving toward my hands. I figured that he would never reach my hands where the were on the back half of the shell. The neck kept coming ... and coming ... and coming...that rascal bit me in the web of my hand between the thumb and first finger. Took out a V shaped piece of my flesh! His neck was long enough to reach almost the length of his shell. It had the desired affect...I dropped him/her and he/she swam off.

Most turtles can pull their feet, tail and head inside the shell. Snapping turtles can not do that so they have developed a different defense mechanism. When I tried to move the snapping turtle off the road, I found out about it first hand. It happened so fast that I could not see exactly what it did, but I think it pulled its extremities in tight to the shell and then"snapped" them out with such speed and force that the jolt knocked him out of my hands. I think that is why the have that name.

+2kayakcampers Also, because they 'snap' like a snake...lightning fast. The best ways to pick up any turtle is four fingers under and thumb on top of its back end; if it's heavy, use both hands. Or, find a strong stick and when the turtle bites it, carefully pick it up. It usually won't let go until you put it down. That's how I had someone keep a large snapping turtle busy while I sutured a cut and fiberglassed its cracked shell. That bite you got must have required doctor's care...that's awful! I got bit by a baby eastern box turtle that didn't break the skin but it startled me and I dropped it.

Actually, it just took out a little eighth of an inch chunk. I must have been 13 or 14 at the time. Salve and a bandage and I am sure I was back in the canoe in minutes. Developed a love for the outdoors at a very young age and it never wore off. Now I just herd the turtle off the road or maybe lay down in the road to get a close up picture. I'll stick to picking up painted turtles. 😊

+2kayakcampers so why is it called a "snapping" turtle then???

Put in at the end of Murray landing road. Paddled west and then took the first arm north.

That is why we did not know exactly what was going on. Deer will walk out in fairly shallow water and eat the water plants. Sometimes they stick their whole head under. At first, I thought the porcupine had an injured left rear foot. Then when it went into the water, I thought, maybe it was doing the same thing. The first clue that there is a snapping turtle in the area is a webbed foot coming out of the water for a couple seconds and the going back down. The people watching the KZfaq have the advantage of already knowing that a turtle was involved. With out that advanced knowledge, it is a long time before you see evidence of the turtle.

Chaotix Fox Turtle eats guts out of porcupine, otter eats guts out of turtle. All of nature is just one great big stomach transplant

The turtle was just as stupid. Look at all the quills stuck in its arm. He might have killed himself by eating them quills. There's no animal that has armor inside it's mouth and digestion system.

Yeah turtles and porcupines are some of the toughest animals to kill for predators, someone mentioned quills got into the turtle's leg. If it chomped down on some......it died in the process probably. Turtles have poor mobility, but protection underneath them which porcupines lack.

Sorry about the garbled address that got stuck in the middle of my previous post. iPad autocorrect... But to finish the post, I believe that the jolt that it creates is where the name came from and that jolt literally jerked the turtle I was holding out of my hand. It was incredibly powerful coming from a turtle with a shell of about 10 inches. Something has to stop the kinetic energy suddenly to create the jolt. It would seem logical that the body mass slamming against some part of the shell inside would be what crates the jolt.

I need to check. I gave a company the rights to manage licensing but have not heard from them since and I think the company was sold. I am going to track them down and cancel the agreement. I will let you know when I accomplish that.

To license this video contact info@lpe360.com. They are handling all licensing. I would be extremely interested in what response you get from them.

According to some comments and some research, porcupine quills have disinfectant properties since porcupines sometimes fall out of trees and quill themselves. I have read that they do work their way in because of the barb . I don't know how far up the quill the barb is. Since it did not get scared off with the tail slapping, I wonder if he has had porcupine before...