This medium sized snapping turtle was perched quite precariously on a small log in the Amphibian Pond. He kept kicking one of his back legs as if to shake something off. With all the duckweed covering his head he looks more prehistoric than ever. When I first noticed him, I thought he was injured or even dead, as he was lying with his head hanging in the water. Eventually he raised it and then began the kicking movement with his leg. Nearby, a painted turtle floated just below the surface of the water.