Show STRATEGY OF THE TURTLE tho the manner in which it captures capture elsh for food the snapping turtle eats is a variety ot of things when it gets a chance it catches and eats live fish usually while the turtle is ie a pretty fair swimmer in its way it cant begin to compete with the fish it captures the fish by strategy when the tide comes in killifish come up the creeks in swarms looking tor for food the killifish is a scavenger it will eat almost anything any scrap of food floating on the water a Is 5 fastened upon perhaps by one killi or by ten or there may be a hundred killies struggling and pushing to get at it and tearing oft off shreds and fragments whenever they reach it this la is the turtles opportunity the turtle standing in the shallow water edges towards the nearest killi movin moving g slowly and cautiously with its neck extended As it moves nearer it gradually contracts its neck drawing its head back toward its shell its body is all the time getting closer to the killi but its head Is not the milt it if it has an eye on the turtle at all is thus lulled into a false security it seems never to realize the telescopic character of the turtles neck the turtle calculates dista distances aces with great nicety still inching steadily forward it keeps all the time drawing in its head until perhaps only its eyes are ar visible peering out from under th the edge of its shell then when it la Is within striking distance suddenly out shoots its head and oftener than not it 11 gets kasta the will |