Wow, i would guess this doesn't happen very often.

Had the snapper already bit the loon, thus keeping it from taking flight or diving? I had no idea a snapper could swim so fast.

Wow. Cool video. What are the odds that happens by a canoe??

I suspect it is a snapper that grabbed a loon by the foot and the loon is trying to get away and pulling the snapper upside down.

adam: "I suspect it is a snapper that grabbed a loon by the foot and the loon is trying to get away and pulling the snapper upside down."

I watched it again and you're right. Nature is brutal.

What would you do in this case?

Good question, Adam. I'd be tempted to intervene, but I don't think I would. Snappers need to eat and freeing the loon might mean a slow death for the bird and no food for the snapper.

I saw this on the group's FB page - they said they initially thought the loon was caught in something, so they went to investigate - they bumped the pair with the canoe and the turtle let go, I think. I think I might have smacked the turtle with my paddle, if me, but I'm a bird-lover. Those damn turtles get enough of my walleye on the stringer (one just last week!)

adam: "
What would you do in this case?
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I would have helped the bird. Haven't heard about too many Snapping Turtles starving lately.

adam: "
What would you do in this case?
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I would have helped the bird...

adam: "
What would you do in this case?
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Nothing. Well, I guess I would have thought to myself that it was cool to see.

I'm in the let nature run it's course camp.

A turtle, at some point, discovered a technique that puts food in his stomach. Our cultivated perspectives say yea or nay but Nature is neutral in judgment. Would not intervene. Critters have to eat.