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Swimming Snapper, Florida, 1996

"Loads of people hate snappers," says snapper hunter John Rogers, "but they don't see the turtle underwater, where it is one beautiful majestic animal."

(Text and photograph from "Unmasking the Snapping Turtle," March 1999, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by George Grall

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