Alligator Snapping Turtle Bites Researcher

[tjbajsfvr66]

Its funny because he said "you have to be careful when they want to bite you". When he puts it down, it bites him

[TameTurtlez]

the interesting thing is the turtle still thinks he's biting the victim once something is in his mouth (the tool), so the researcher still has his other hand close to the turtles mouth. but if you ask me, i think his other hand got bit when the video cut off, loool.

[FlatulousMaximus]

Grandpa says those things won't let go until it thunders.....

[johnnymassacre]

I could have told you within 5 seconds to destroy this creature with a bomb of some kind, judging by its nightmarish appearance.

[fckbp]

The way he was holding that turtle was lol

[phillyflash43]

Those things are why I'll never understand why people engage in the sport of "noodling" for catfish...you could lose a whole hand to one of these...

[marcjtdc]

thank you for the very timely info. i have always had a fear of swimming with them.

[vote4reggae]

damn i wanna cook that thing... think the meat tastes like crocodile

[flaminshiz]

Good god I thought the dinosaurs were dead

[660vampire]

man thats a vicious turtle

[RastamanVibrations91]

I'm guessing the title of his research was "Do snapping turtles snap?"

[RenoDoctor]

This is why you leave snapping turtles alone in their water habitat. They will never harm people in this habitat unprovoked. Swim right by, wouldn't know were there. Mess with them and they'll take a finger or toe. This guy got really lucky. If you find one catching Zs in your boat, get some tough work gloves, stay right away from the business end, grab the tail both hands, lift the whole turtle up (odds are female) and drop overboard.

[tsadkiel2008]

@RenoDoctor i dont think "tough work gloves" will help just a thought

[justwatchinthevideos]

@RenoDoctor NEVER grab a turtle by the tail. You could easily dislocate a vertebrate.

[silverylinin]

thot his finger was bitten off.

[sixtypixies]

I was scared to watch this video. That turtle is brutal! And the researcher is pretty hardcore. I definitely would've been blubbering. Dude is lucky he didn't lose his fingers.

[comfortjjc]

i like his reaction. like i never thought this would happen but its cool im gunna get through this

[KingDededeMaster]

Well now. That sure 'bites'.

[ChiefsBulls587]

I saw one of these in a creek when I was a kid not too far from my house. I ran house screaming lol.

[LETSGOBULLS8]

the turtle did what anyone else would do, you mess with it, take it out of its environment, its gonna defend itself

[justplainjackepoo]

the turtle bites him and they care about harming the dang thing??????

[desirefirst]

i'll never go in the water again

[Grimno]

"Ah he got me..." A good reaction. My reaction probably would have been "OH DEAR GOD HE"S GOT ME! SHOOT IT! SHOOT IT!"

[drunkdriftin]

"ARRR he got me, ahh okay he got me"

[MrSaycool]

You can swim with them, there's nothing to worry about AHH FREAK HE GOT ME PLIERS QUICK

[able1678]

I bet after they let it go and stop filming they shot and boiled the thing lol

[deanthompson88]

took it like a man but what a tool for grabing an ali snapper by the face lol

[NefariousNarcissist7]

This creature needs to be extict

[undocumentedspot]

so they are kind of persistent , never give up on their bite.

[shadows124]

I figured it would bite his finger right off.

[Chris24hrbail]

Yes! Score one for mr. Turtle!

[Inkbleedful]

you need pliers just to remove that thing

[l0ltxtit]

did he say it's a small adult? THAT THING IS ALMOST AS BIG AS MY BEAGLE.

[yutube1alm]

heres where he made the mistake... lets grab a 75 lb turtle by the face

[Orbot]

OUCH! That turtlw was fast! Got him as soon as he let go! I think that turtle was a bit pissed about being caught, so hewanted some reparations, lol!

[FisherDudeGuy]

got his one hand out.... now bite the other haha

[Joeybsmooth]

WOW for a science person he too getting bite really well.

[TheMysteryman334]

he took that like a man.

[mookeychase0907]

@TheMysteryman334 I been shot before and I didn't yell scream or panic but if that turtle woulda bit my hand like that I could see myself hollering...

[BarackSays]

@HardCoreDancing1 I'd imagine he'd have to be pretty chill, flinching/freaking out would probably just make the wound worse. I know for sure that if one of those things ever bit me I'd probably lose my finger panicking.

[fhsdkfh]

loll 1+ for the turtle for being super fast.. lolll

[ruscccpsia2010]

Thumbs up for him taking it like a man.

[Losseeh]

I feel sad for the turtle it must've been scared.

[TheColubrid]

It's Macrochelys, not 'Macroclemys'

[screamindimon]

Thats one tuff dude!

[ximmortalkilla]

he woulda been soup if he bit me.....

[benderbotx]

I tripped over one of these when I was walking near a lake with my friend when I was young. I think I ran home and told my mom I saw bowser by the lake.

[Naizgroth]

I thought he was going to loose his finger..

[ToTirDeKK]

snapitty snap

[chuchuchuchia]

"AHHH, He's got me" answer: "What do you want us to do?" HELP HIM, DUH!

[pedromoratalla]

I use to pick up baby turtles with my hand until I found out they have long necks that can extend out and bite you with no problem. I have never been bitten by one but I will never pick one up again and I will keep my distance from them too.

[donny29dsm]

I grew up in south Fla. and i used to catch these kind of turtles but they were 3 or 4 times as big.The biggest one i've ever caught was as big as a man-hole cover and had to weigh over 30lbs. i could barely pick it up!

[Delticola]

@donny29dsm In south Florida you did not have this species. You had some really large common snapping turtles. Those grow pretty large in southern Florida. I've seen them huge dead on the road on the FL turnpike. But this alligator snapping turtle goes no further south then the Suwannee River of Northern Florida. So you were encountering another species.

[DESTRUCTIONMEDIA]

@donny29dsm am im the son of super man

[cbraineater]

@donny29dsm must be a big feller to pick up 300 lbs

[ilovemecabana]

Ahahaaha why did I fins this soo funny! lol

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

lmao

[onebadboy63]

researcher:awww,f&$@ hes got me

camera man:well what do you want me to do?:|

researcher:um um idk?lol

[norton2282]

how long? how heavy? what state?

[Delticola]

@norton2282 Not very large, not very heavy, and from the details related to the video you can assume it's Missouri and I can confirm for you that it was Missouri, a very rare animal in Missouri, only found in a few bodies of water in Southern Missouri. I would be willing to bet Missouri has less then 1000 wild alligator snapping turtles, maybe only 500. If most of the habitat had not been drained in the 1920's and 1930's there might have been 500,000.

[bomac10000]

got a little too casual...

[guitarmaniac927]

thats why you dont grab the turtles' head

[Rainb0wSeven]

LOLOLOL! I love how you can see the turtle tracking his fingers and then "SNAP!"

[AztlanPrincess]

Why do wildlife researchers feel the need to anthropomorphize animals with comments like " he doesn't want to attack" or " the only reason he wants to bite is because I've got him tangled in a net".

Animals are animals, they do what they do. Only the higher order animals have what we might describe as emotions.

That turtle would have bit his finger regardless of the situation.

[Adgirl160]

Who cares about the "special tool"? Geez people, get over it already.

[Ihateirans]

You've got to be more careful handling these Microwave Snapping Tortoises. They make lousy pets, for they neither give, nor respond to affection.  Attempts to cuddle them virtually always result in lost appendages.

[ScorpioX19]

i seen one next to my foot and was so close to netting it like this :/ i woulda loved to at least gotten a picture

[chipnickqb1]

ahh.... he got me! lol classic

[coment6]

shud i keep my snaping turtle

[SP1T1TOUT56]

HE BLED ON THE TURTLE'S BACK >:(

[luxio8]

when the snapper bit the guy i heard a crunching sound

[fourtriangles2112]

Good job,took that bite like a pro,calmly extricated his finger out of the turtles mouth,must have hurt but he was more concerned about the well being of the animal he's studying

[Kinkikass]

"For the most part they're nothing to worry about," FAMOUS LAST WORDS RESEARCHER!!!!!!!

[SecondStepGaming]

Now that I have this hand free let me leave THIS ONE by his mouth...

[LightninLew]

@SecondStepGaming I was thinking the same thing haha

[endemion696]

A special tool to pry his mouth open.... looked like a pocket knife to me

[jasshole333]

@endemion696 i saw it as one of those wooden things a Dr. sticks on ur tongue

[fflattliner]

ive been bit by one it hurts like hell

[BuckNekkid3000]

turtle-1...researcher-0

[enjoiskater12222]

sorry man that had 2 hurt

[CrowmagnusFilms]

A special tool to pry the mouth open? huh, thats odd I have one too. Its called a pocket knife lmao

[aaronketten]

It's okay. He used a special tool to remove his finger. Pocket knives are designed for any and everything. lol

[THEEND123321]

always grab by the tall they can reach around and bite about 1/2 way past there shell

[ericsantiago011]

you are too slow lol

[Slacking02]

i call BS on the "special tool" he just jamed a knife in its mouth!

[MsAssassinKitty]

"He's got me!" "...What do you want us to do?"

[JMShan88]

I would of bitten the turtles finger

[joesmoe71]

Finger lickin good!

[slothmega]

SMALL adult snapping turtle? Uh.. yeah..

[holmer666]

"a special tool"? Looks like a pocketknife to me.

[TheAwesomenarb]

Lucky to still have his finger

[KurtsTwinSister]

I hope my Vladimir doesn't do that to me lol (I have a baby snapping turtle) Scary thought though.

[SenderEasygoing]

If that turtle did tha with me i would make a soup out of 'm..

[TraKoWw]

i like turtles

[XxD4nT4sTiCxX]

Chuck Norris uses one of these to clip his finger nails lol

[santolman]

@XxD4nT4sTiCxX no he doesnt

[BensHerps]

@XxD4nT4sTiCxX best chuck joke iv heard for a long time

[Conchobhar]

@XxD4nT4sTiCxX Chuck Norris jokes are like a decade old. Did you just get an internet connection this month?

[TheBritishDJ]

Oh sure.. they definitely can be swam with... NOT!

[DJDarci]

Did the finger died?

[Yakuzagang5]

@DJDarci Really?

[BornTreacherous42]

I would have freaked the hell out. He knows what he's doing.

[DarkSaphire2002]

EVERYBODY RUN!!! IT'S TASTED HUMAN BLOOD!!!

[Thorology]

@DarkSaphire2002 Why lucky? He stayed perfectly calm and freed his finger without hurting the turtle. Sounds like a professional (though he did got bitten, haha).

[wangsta231]

@DarkSaphire2002 and it liked it!

[azgrem]

Damn he is LUCKY

[EquaDogi]

"he only wants to bite me because i've got him tangled up in the net. For the most part we've got nothing to worry about" haha. Then you get bitten. I think he wants to bite you because he wants to eat you lol

[OmegaBlades]

Looks like Bowser was pissed being caught in a net and manhandled like that.

[EasyOpenMan]

and the super special tool the man used was a POCKET KNIFE! i know what your thinking .. its really hard to find one of those special tools haha. but seriously way to stay cool

[natemitch12]

thats a quick way to become turtle soup in my book

[natemitch12]

hahaha that turtle couldnt wait till he had some daylight on that finger to attack

[ronaldinho12335]

i actaully felt that!!!!

[litledevel15]

"For the most part, they're nothing to worry about" You're saying that about the LARGEST freshwater turtle that has a bite of 1500 pounds per sq. inch. Yeah, just enough to probably take an arm off when full grown.

[snakelover66]

i have a small one we keep him in a tank and he watches us all the time and he knows when its feeding time he also eats out of our hands

[AnimalExpert1000]

OW HE BIT ME!!! heh heh So what do we do?

uh... uuuuuuuh....

[glassoniongirl64]

lucky it wasn't full-grown.

[MrCoonhunter01]

turtle soup if da son of a gunbit me

[Kurohadol]

they have the 2nd strongest bite in the world with like 1500 pounds per sq inch or something

[rj2000ish]

why was he holding it by it`s mouth

[o56kid]

turtles are the one thing that make me too scared to get into the water any more. The big ones will take your foot off of they want too

[MrDavkoz]

Hence the name "snapping" turtle...

[Relda999]

i got bit by a snapping turtle when i was kid, until this day that damn turtle haunts me!

[rubyspaceship1o1]

the turtle was even more pissed about the blood on his shell.

[bomac10000]

I've seen big ones caught twice, they are cool looking creatures...doesnt pay to get to comfortable around any wild animal, they are scared and want their freedom...

[polski368]

nom, nom...hmm, not so tasty..

[SirN0LAN]

Wow, that researcher handled that very well. I would've been like "HOLY ****, AGH ****".

[braska19]

Theirs nothing to worry about...lol

[oberonson18]

dam nature! u scary!!!!

[MrDoombull]

lool get the pliers

hes like you want to take my finger turtle im gonna take yours hahahah

[chrstangirl55]

I have one of these but training not to bite and its working so far

[PrivatePhilth]

@chrstangirl55 How do you train them not to bite. Is it possible to teach them stuff like that? How do you do it?

[taterboob]

And that is why I refuse to go swimming in lakes, rivers, ponds, etc.

[Obzy666]

the turtle was like.... wait... im free??...but why?

[OnoaSnake]

alligator snappers are tough..caught one when i was 7 and it broke a wooden broomstick in 1 bite.

[rosewaterkaren000]

never mess with a snapping turtle!

[chickensoup444]

"no i don't need them anymore"

[SuBsAnDwIcH200]

What'd you think was going to happen?!

[YusakuJon3]

You should NEVER underestimate how fast these big buggers will move when they do. They may be turtles, but there's a reason they're called "snapping" turtles... that head just shoots out and closes those jaws (like oversized nail clippers) on any fish which swims into reach.

[eagleskid20]

i love how after his finger's out of the turtles mouth the one guy's like "uh do you still need the pliers"

[packers5212]

reminds me why you shouldnt skinny dip in lakes and ponds

[FantasyMindedMan]

the turtle was released un-armed! But not un marked by the blood of its last Victim!

[merdy2012]

of course put your hand by the turtle's mouth nothing will happen

[Christina111236]

SNAP that scared me when he screamed!

[FFJabarr]

And then bam, alligator from behind.

[firebird718]

His mistake was holding the turtle's mouth. You NEVER do that because as you saw, it can just lash out and bite as soon as you let go. You should ONLY hold the front and back of the shell and keep the animal away from you body. Best to step back when you put it down also.

[cannibalmonkey13]

i would have killed it and made it SUFFER :D

[godgrant123]

Was waiting for another bite :3

but these are scary :(

[MrMisanthrope1]

its like a pitbull that wont let go you use a breaking stick a peice of wood thats tappered at the end. you put it in its back teeth and it prevents the dog from biting down or keeping its hold. its a tool to seperate two pitbulls in a fight. its quicker and it safer for the dogs, usually a hammer handle thats filed down to a tapper point at the end.

[miamivic]

I will never understand those hillbillies that stick their hands in holes seeking catfish bites knowing that those turtles could be in there.

[veelalynne]

@miamivic I never thought of that!! Now I'm going to have to find some catfish noodling vids to see if any ever got bit! LOLLOLLOL

[Juanod09]

Cute Turtle !!

[Juanod09]

Cute Turtle !! My favourite animal....

[salmonella4everyone]

i like how he said- "they're nothing to worry about.."

right before it bites him

[HollywoodKendrick]

All he had to do was tap.

[TattooCulture]

I want to grow one in a pool full of swamp water, feed it muskies, and ride it like a battle steed

[whysunshyn]

Used to shoot them with bow & arrow back in Arkansas. Granny & Aunt Lee would make up a stew outta them that the old folks loved. Not us kids. LOL That was 50 years ago and now I am the old folks. I still wouldn't touch it.

[wnesbitt1]

'You can swim with 'em, fish with 'em'..... bleed with 'em.

[mechmusicman]

All you have to do is wait for it to Thunder and he'll let go. An old Cajun saying. LOL

[edd0esntcare]

You could kind of see satisfaction come over the turtle when it has that smile after the bite...

[dixieboycrf]

Special tool...more like a knife turned sideways

[Delticola]

@dixieboycrf Schrade Cutlery steel. Flat and dull. But I would have used a knife if I didn't have the cutlery steel.

[xflint5]

hey guys lets dress up like navy seals n play wid turttles....

[5c4v3ng3r]

1:19 shows he hasnt learnt from his mistake, that turtle coudlve gone for the other hand

[Delticola]

@5c4v3ng3r No the piece of steel was pressing down on the bottom of the lower jaw.

[ThunderBOner69]

lol atleast he didnt kick the turtle back in the water

[MrThomas4151]

damn nature, u scary

[oklahomaisok]

Why didn't he put a stick out there for the turtle to clamp down on , and then take the turtle out of the net? They don't want to unclamp their jaws when they bite down.

[untitledude]

too slow.

[ueck1125]

Yes that guy was a professional.. That turtles head would have came off if it were my finger...

[fallenskater5555]

the sound it made when it bit him was priceless

[blindedby2monkeys]

turtly bit me, again!

[NanoSnax]

i got to admit he took that pretty well

[weldingmachine1959]

i would kill that animal if it happened to me. I would see to it that it experiences more pain. Watch Cannibal Holocaust and see what they did to the turtle similar to this.

[edtri19]

@weldingmachine1959 Why, it was their fault that he was in the net

[Amatersaru1]

i dont like snappersXD ive handled many kinda of turtle and never once even had one try and bite me.....why the hell would you want a snapper as a pet

[randyshmad]

Good thing he is a pro, or he may have been bitten.....