Chelydra serpentina found in Montezuma Well
He doesn’t have a name yet, but the snapper turtle found on April 13 at Montezuma Well National Monument is now at his new home in the Phoenix Zoo. Nobody at USGS knows precisely how long the 40-pound snapper turtle was at Montezuma Well before a volunteer spotted him in the well’s ditch about two weeks ago. Later that fateful day, P.J. Madara-Yagla, law enforcement park ranger serving Montezuma Well, Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot national monuments, helped the turtle out of the ditch.
Drost drove the turtle to the science center office in Flagstaff. “It is a singularly impressive animal,”
Drost says. “But this big fellow is surprisingly easy to handle.” Until it almost crawled out of its temporary storage container with Drost hustling north on I-17 at more than 70 miles an hour.
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