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Florida’s immense wetlands provides ample habitat for many species of turtles and cooters are the most common of them all. Cooters includes all turtles in the Pseudemys genus such as river cooters, pond cooters and red bellied turtles. They are aquatic, hard-shelled turtles, primarily found in the swamps, rivers and lakes of the southeastern United States.
Cooters are omnivorous in general and feeding on animals, dead or alive occasionally. But they gorge on water lilies and the commotion attracts its most feared predator, the american alligator. Cooters prefer basking near the water to escape quick when detected by a predator.
When an escape is longer possible, they remain motionless to discourage an attack. But alligators are persistent and will stalk potential prey for hours until the slightest movement gives it away. A fully grown American Alligator generates a bite force around 2000 psi, which is enough force to crush any hard shelled turtle.
But cooters are always on high alert any difficult to hunt in the open. They are quite fast underwater too and alligators usually do waste much energy chasing after them. Ambush predation remains the best technique for alligators to catch such fast prey… and if surrounded by hungry hunters there is little chance of an escape. But on the other hand, alligators can be truly clumsy when hunting on land.
This stock footage was filmed by Heiko Kiera aka Ojatro in 2017.
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