They do it for one simple reason. They like to watch those silly human researchers drive themselves crazy trying to figure out why they do it
Why walk? When you can get your silly human slaves to carry youOnce again i underestimated how cunning they are. They just know how to act clueless to evoke our sympathy and get us to stop and carry them across the road.
I have never known a snapper to be reasonable they are totally immune to logicI’ve rescued quite a few turtles off the road most were snapping turtles. A few summers ago I came across a huge prehistoric looking snapper, he was missing an eye and looked like he’d seem some stuff in his day. Let me tell you this creature was nasty, cars were driving over him (straddling him) and he would lunge up at them as they passed over. I was worried how’d I move him, all it took was him coming after me. He gladly chased me off the roadway. It was probably comical to watch, I just yelled at him to stop being an A$&hole the entire time.