孵化場で生まれたばかりの子ガメたちが、自然へと放たれる。
Baby turtles are released from the breeding station into wild life
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【感動】保護された子ガメ、野生へ！生命の連鎖に涙腺崩壊
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“A turtle made it to the water”
The turtles when the wave suddenly hits them for the first time:
https://preview.redd.it/24wltec65vtf1.png?width=994&format=png&auto=webp&s=3c8bdfcc7990bdc129d92a3ed90bba8658d82caa
Very few sea turtle hatchlings survive to adulthood; estimates suggest that only one in approximately 1,000 hatchlings reaches sexual maturity, which can take between 17 and 30 years. Most hatchlings fall victim to predators or fail to reach the ocean, but human impacts such as plastic waste and bycatch in fishing also contribute significantly to these high losses.
I saw one of those live.
We were rather far away from the coast but all turtles in bucket were trying to climb over eachother to reach the ocean.
They couldn’t see the ocean over the bucket, but maybe smelled or heard it. They were all trying to climb the bucket in same direction, ocean.
Honestly, I expected a predator
https://i.redd.it/lrshoqvjbvtf1.gif
MEINS
*wipes away tear*
They started their life in a five gallon bucket, just like I did.
https://preview.redd.it/6qub2uuvtvtf1.jpeg?width=1169&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aa744fed5a35254626310688c278b42ce059a617
Be fwee little tweetles
Seems like they would just be fodder for predators
this is very emotional scene for me. I wish luck and healthy life for all of them 😍
at 0:12, my mind went “weeeeeeeeeeeeee”
Are they crunchy?
I like this. Baby sea turtles already have an extremely difficult time making it to the water without being picked off by predators, as well as very, very few surviving to adulthood beyond then.
I’m glad they got to have a little bit of a head start, even if only a couple could make it in the end.
Go, lil dudes, go! Freedom swim FTW! Just hoping they dodge them hungry seagulls lurking around.
Omaha beach but backwards.
THIS is what proper population boosting looks like. You don’t raise the animal in captivity, you hatch it in captivity and release it to the wild as quickly as possible, preferably in a location without immediate predators to maximize the chances of the hatchlings.
I worked for a project like this
Absolutely do not release turtles directly into the water like this. they need to imprint on the beach so they can return to lay their eggs. Sometimes their lungs aren’t fully opened and will drown if you do this.
Also do not release them during the day, that’s when the predators are most active. Release them as the sun hits the horizon at the earliest.
We sure this isn’t just a poor attempt at water boarding baby turtles to make them tell us what they know?
Why not feed them and make them slightly stronger? I mean its not proper way but while we are fucking up with nature might as well give them better chance
I hate to be that guy but that’s the wrong way to do this. It’s actually important for their initial muscle development for the htchlings to first crawl along the beach to the water. Ideally you want them to start pretty far up the beach and you walk along side them to ward off predators.
Aren’t you supposed to do this at night ya now. The moon and stuff. Or was that another American school lie.
It is too close to the water. Baby turtles need at least 20ft of beach to run to the water to warm up their bodies.
If not, the temp of the water can kill them.
Source: I rescued turtles in Costa Rica (Playa Junquillal)
“WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE”
Let us see how squirt does on his own
Cya little dudes
Dolphins off shore like
Into wild life?
Maybe “into the wild”
I wonder if this is an ai generated title.
**A TURTLE HAS FALLEN INTO THE WATER IN LEGO CITY**
Would this kind of thing not have a knock on ecosystem impact?
Should be done at night.
Should be released further away from shore break.
Source: me, saved a nest of sea turtles from high tides by building a dam, then watched them boil and make their little waddle to the sea, and lesrned a ton from the group monitoring the nests up and down the shoreline.
Good luck little dudes, you’re gonna need it
Little guys look so cute swimming off, dump a similar looking bucket of spiders and I’d lose my shit.
https://preview.redd.it/tuaajczdkvtf1.png?width=2576&format=png&auto=webp&s=274749c1eb03f793adfdaaaa1d4954c4bf48e57f
Couldn’t you just go out in a boat and release them without the wave ninja kicking them back on to the shore, or is that some kind of nature thing that we’re doing on purpose?
Don’t sea turtles hatch at night, to increase their chances of survival?
Man they’ve got to have a very low survival rate. Imagine being a tiny little baby turtle in a vast ocean full of things that want to eat you. I was going to say it has to be like 1 in 5 living to adult hood, even for wild born ones, but decided to look it up and it’s more like 1 in 1000 or 1 in 10,000.
Apparently in natural situations, 50-70% are wiped out getting from where they hatched to the water as birds, crabs and raccoons prey on them. So releasing them like this probably doubles the rate.
“Okay guys we’re going to have a good jump today! Do we have our exit buddies?”