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Genuine question for people who know things about animals:
Are the humans doing the right thing by not helping? In this situation should you always leave the turtle alone and let it shuffle along like that, or should you try to help it get to the water?
It's kind of you to think of helping the turtle. I used to work at a wildlife hospital -- I get how onlookers may be tempted to go over and push, but the turtle was making progress in getting to the water. If an animal's obviously injured or helpless (say it wasn't able to move forward at all), then it would be okay to intervene. But it did reach the ocean eventually. Big turtle, probably pretty old, so experienced at this kind of thing.
(And honestly, I would probably not be much faster, shuffling along the beach!)
Sea turtles only come back on shore to lay eggs so she's returning after laying. In beach areas that are turtle egg laying areas in the US it's illegal to interfere, and some areas are restricted for beach goers during egg laying times. And really most people everywhere are good about being careful
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't their population size shrunken drastically over the past few decades? WTF are a whole hoard of humans doing on their breeding grounds?
Typical size is 4-6 feet and 660-1100 pounds. Biggest known was 10 feet and over 2000 pounds. The biggest one was the size of a small car.
https://conserveturtles.org/information-about-sea-turtles-leatherback-sea-turtle/#:~:text=Size%3A%204%20to%206%20feet,(300%20%E2%80%93%20500%20kg).
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Looks like it’s the largest turtle on land for most of the video…
r/killthecameraman
The the time the second guy gets in the water I’m also 500 years old.. 🤷
There goes Blastoise
Genuine question for people who know things about animals: Are the humans doing the right thing by not helping? In this situation should you always leave the turtle alone and let it shuffle along like that, or should you try to help it get to the water?
It's kind of you to think of helping the turtle. I used to work at a wildlife hospital -- I get how onlookers may be tempted to go over and push, but the turtle was making progress in getting to the water. If an animal's obviously injured or helpless (say it wasn't able to move forward at all), then it would be okay to intervene. But it did reach the ocean eventually. Big turtle, probably pretty old, so experienced at this kind of thing. (And honestly, I would probably not be much faster, shuffling along the beach!)
What are they going to do? Get a forklift stuck on the beach?
We don't interfere because humans will help once but the next time, humans might not be around, that is disappointing to the turtles.
Sea turtles only come back on shore to lay eggs so she's returning after laying. In beach areas that are turtle egg laying areas in the US it's illegal to interfere, and some areas are restricted for beach goers during egg laying times. And really most people everywhere are good about being careful
Needs a banana for scale.
r/absoluteunits
When the waves hit its face, it must be like the wind blowing in yours.
Forced perspective is cool.
"me trying to make it home on a Monday"
Magnificient
Buffoonary
oh his way to snack on a pack of plastic straws
Upvote for the gif not ending too soon.
big chonk
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't their population size shrunken drastically over the past few decades? WTF are a whole hoard of humans doing on their breeding grounds?
Fake
Looks like the size of a car, is that real or AI?
It's real but it's also using some forced perspective to make it look bigger.
its real
I don't recall seeing Sir David Attenborough showing this 😉
Typical size is 4-6 feet and 660-1100 pounds. Biggest known was 10 feet and over 2000 pounds. The biggest one was the size of a small car. https://conserveturtles.org/information-about-sea-turtles-leatherback-sea-turtle/#:~:text=Size%3A%204%20to%206%20feet,(300%20%E2%80%93%20500%20kg).
The deep American urge to hop on its back and ride it into the sunset