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    Terrapins Uk, Should they stay?

    ah but aligator snappers are easy to catch all you do is get a small child tie a rope round it's waist and sling it in the water then sit back and wait. it's a bit heavy on the baits though.
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    Terrapins Uk, Should they stay?

    you could give 300 people a job for life getting rid of the mink, which i'm sure we can all agree is a far more urgent problem.
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    Terrapins Uk, Should they stay?

    do you get warmer summers than us
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    Terrapins Uk, Should they stay?

    yes it is in 30 years time the whole of europe from mid france down would have to be something akin to the saharadesert, in order for ouyr climate to have changed sufficiently for them to breed, they cannont and will not be able to breed in our climate. they aren't going to eveolve as they...
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    Terrapins Uk, Should they stay?

    you lucky man, i've been an angler for 35 years and never yet managed to see one, signals on the other hand i've fought with loads, when i used to live in oxfordshire. the biggest was over a foot long from it's tail to it's claws held out in front of it. i've seen smaller lobsters.
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    Terrapins Uk, Should they stay?

    and not nit picking here bu our native crayfish is actualy called the white clawed, rather than white tailed crayfish.
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    Terrapins Uk, Should they stay?

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    Terrapins Uk, Should they stay?

    no they are carnivorous actually primarily pescivorous but they can't do much damage, particularly when compared with other invasive alien species which we have on our shores currently. it would take 10 full grown turtles to do the damage of one mink. presuming mink ate everything that they...
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    Terrapins Uk, Should they stay?

    they can take the odd newly hatched chick. when they are fully grown. a fully grown one will be around 18 inches long but to get there takes 50 years. and on the comments about they can't breed at the moment, in or der to produce a viable population the average temperature would have to...
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