Vet reveals bizarre name of 'dangerous' alligator snapping turtle found in CumbriaSky News
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00:00 I have a bit of a passion for exotics and reptiles, so luckily I was able to sort of
00:04 identify it fairly quickly when it came in and both myself and the parish councillor were sort of
00:09 in a bit of disbelief that it was actually an alligator snapping turtle.
00:13 Well it's just as well you had a passion for it. It can be dangerous can't it? It can bite
00:19 through bone I understand, so you're a brave man standing there holding on to him. I keep calling,
00:25 is it a he or she? So at this age we're not entirely sure, we're quite small at the moment
00:31 to tell gender, so at the moment we're a they, but we've colloquially named them Fluffy.
00:37 I keep saying he but we can't tell just yet, when we get a little bit bigger we might be able to tell.
00:42 And I have to say it looks about as far from Fluffy as one could possibly imagine,
00:48 it looks almost Jurassic. Why Fluffy?
00:53 So it was one of my colleagues Rachel and she said that it actually looked rather cute and
00:58 I think in a strange way it does look quite cute, so we decided to try and
01:02 give it a cute name so we went for Fluffy.