Santa Rosa is a city of 177,000 people about 55 miles north of San Francisco.Ĭreature’s shining eyes on farm lead to discovery of new species in India, study says The agency and Santa Rosa parks officials are investigating. Greg Martinelli, a program manager with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Bay Delta Region, told The Press Democrat the turtles are “voracious and omnivorous.” They’ve been known to bite the legs off birds floating in the water. If you put your foot in front of it, it will bite you,” Rozonewski told KGO. One, the “dinosaur-like” alligator snapping turtle, can reach up to 175 pounds, the National Wildlife Federation said. The turtle in Lake Ralphine could be one of three subspecies, SFGate reported. The problem is, it kills off our native species.” “But when they start to get too big or aggressive, they start releasing the animals in water or not far from where they live. “Unfortunately, a lot of people get them when they’re babies and do not care about the law,” Wendy Rozonewski of JNW Animal Rescue in Vallejo told the publication. Snapping turtles are not native to California and are illegal to own without a permit, wildlife experts told The Press Democrat.
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