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23-APR-2011 Chris Cox

Turtle Battle

Louisiana

These two huge Logger Head turtles face off (almost literally) when they become too close to each other.
The 29 pound turtle to the left clinches down on the slightly smaller turtle to the right and bites down hard.
The larger turtles bite is actually started to break the skull and penetrate into the skull of the smaller one.
We could hear the skull cracking!

This is called the Death Grip! If he grabs and bites you, he probably won't let go!

Nikon D7000 ,Nikon 24-120mm F4.0
1/80s f/5.0 at 120.0mm iso200 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
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Breland24-Apr-2011 13:40
Wow I have never seen this in the wild. Great capture Chris
Gayle P. Clement24-Apr-2011 13:26
Amazing photo, Chris. Very well captured.
Guest 24-Apr-2011 11:21
awesome shot, I never knew they fight like that
A J Adams24-Apr-2011 10:53
Fantastic shot.
Coleen Perilloux Landry24-Apr-2011 04:19
Where's the thunder or the lightning. this is awful.
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