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Racoon Lunch, United States, 1996

"Scrambled turtle eggs make a meal for a nosy raccoon, drawn by the smell left by the nesting female. If eggs survive coons, skunks, and moles, hatchlings must still run a gantlet of crows, bullfrogs, and snakes. Adult snappers are hunted by humans for their meat."

(From "Unmasking the Snapping Turtle," March 1999, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by George Grall