Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-08-20 | Page 2 | What are Snapping Turtles?

What Are Snapping Turtles? Nature and Science for Young Folks, an Immensely popular department depart-ment In St. Nicholas, Is just what Its title Indicates. In It are gathered many items of Interest about the earth and its inhabitants, as well as the Inhabitants of water and air. The writer of a description of snapping turtles concludes with the following paragraph : "Considered from a scientific standpoint, stand-point, the turtle Is of some Interest, for, although classed with the reptiles, rep-tiles, he has many of the attributes of other groups: thus he has a shell like the mollusks, legs like the mammals, mam-mals, lays eggs like the birds, can live In the water or on the land like err tain amphibians, and hibernates In the mud during the cold season as do many of the other cold-blooded creatures. crea-tures. The fact that his flesh is edible, edi-ble, however, and that 'turtle soup' Is somewhat of n delicacy, murks his chief claim to distinction with many of us."