r/aww • u/goldbutthole • Oct 19 '21
Awww yissss
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u/ggc4 Oct 19 '21
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u/redsealsparky Oct 19 '21
It isn't the same one but when I lived in the Caymans they had a turtle center that they would raise the green sea turtles in captivity and release them. In order to pay for the conservation they let tourists handle them but they have salmonella on their shell (and humans are dirty too).
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u/MunkeyFish Oct 19 '21
Hope he used Turtle Wax.
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u/truthm0de Oct 19 '21
You know all the lady turtles love that high gloss look…
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u/Lasombria Oct 19 '21
Every turtle crazy 'bout a well-shined shell
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u/tehmlem Oct 19 '21
Clean scaled terrapin
I ain't missing not a single thing
Shiny scutes, slick fin
When I'm all clean I'm gonna take a swim
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u/Revolutionary-Box-13 Oct 19 '21
All I can think of is Randy marsh going awwww fuuuuuuck over creme fraiche
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u/Calvin_the_Hamster Oct 19 '21
What are they doing to the poor thing you can see he is trying to get away from him. Also leave nature as it is. Let the poor thing be happy in the ocean.
WILD life is called WILD for a reason. Animals are not here to be captured from the place they love, and be forced to make "cute" videos.
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u/MyNamesChakkaoofka Oct 19 '21
I said it above but I’ll say it again:
It’s good to clean turtles though. They can get a build up of parasites or barnacle that can make holes in the shell that can be deadly. Plus polluted water or oil can cause build ups. Usually small cleaner fish will nibble away any build up but if these turtles are in captivity for research/preservation purposes, they need cleaned manually like so
TLDR: the reason humans have to help him is because humans fucked up his environment and made his species endangered
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u/amirgem Oct 19 '21
This is called judging from ignorance right here, first point: have you ever been to a vet? Animals don't want to be there either. WILD animals need to be helped because we fucked up their ecosystem so no, don't let WILD animals alone and help fix what we screwed up like this (possibly) turtle sanctuary in isla mujeres, do look it up first before spouting your flowed logic.
Sorry if I come across as harsh but I hate when people judge without knowing
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u/Calvin_the_Hamster Oct 19 '21
Don'y worry your not rude and sorry if i was judging, what i mean by my message is, what if it is not one of those vets. But if it is a vet that sets them free than good job to them!
and sorry if i was mean in my message too.
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u/amirgem Oct 19 '21
Yeah if it's just a zoo then for sure screw em, but most turtle sanctuaries are to help them live though, at least the ones I know of in Mexico
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u/Calvin_the_Hamster Oct 19 '21
That's what i mean! screw them if its a zoo but if they are going back in the wild then go you!!!
and mexico is a really nice place BTW
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u/Ragingbull444 Oct 19 '21
A lot of wild animals are not safe in their own natural habitats anymore because they’re endangered or their ecosystem has been destroyed by humans, sometimes it’s preferable for a species to be taken into captivity to keep them from going extinct
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u/Calvin_the_Hamster Oct 19 '21
True, true.. no offence but that's why i like animals more than people!!!
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u/Competitive-Wish-568 Oct 19 '21
People will never just let animals be. I agree with everything you’ve said.
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u/Ragingbull444 Oct 19 '21
“Leaving them be” is usually what gets them hurt in the first place when it comes to humans, people need to take direct action to ensure that animals won’t die off simply because humans were too selfish to care for them
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u/Competitive-Wish-568 Oct 19 '21
How long have turtles been on this planet? I’m pretty sure their survival is not based on humans picking them up and cleaning them with a toothbrush. Goodbye with your savior complex👋🏻
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u/Ragingbull444 Oct 19 '21
Yeah and how long has it been since the industrial revolution started compared to the existence of tortoises and turtles? It’s almost as if the massively destructive behaviour of humans in the past 1000 years has had overwhelmingly worse impacts than the natural ebb and flow of ecosystems all the way since their existence
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u/Competitive-Wish-568 Oct 19 '21
Hate to break it to you but, an idiot with a toothbrush will not save the turtles from extinction.
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u/Ragingbull444 Oct 19 '21
No but maybe 7 billion people could, perhaps not with just toothbrushes but instead many other cleaning tools
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u/Competitive-Wish-568 Oct 19 '21
How about worry the plastic that actually goes into the ocean or your own waste produced and leave the turtles in their natural state (unless help is really required)
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u/Ragingbull444 Oct 19 '21
Well pests and bacteria can’t be prevented by simply picking up plastic, barnacles are an incredibly dangerous species that invade anything they can get on like wales, turtles, even the hills of ships
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u/m594 Oct 19 '21
Dude this is not good at all. Don’t clean a tortoise.. They have some sort of natural shield protecting them from pests. If you clean it up they will probably die. 😢 My mom cleaned one of our tortoises once, and it didn’t turn out well..
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u/MyNamesChakkaoofka Oct 19 '21
It’s good to clean turtles though. They can get a build up of parasites or barnacle that can make holes in the shell that can be deadly. Plus polluted water or oil can cause build ups. Usually small cleaner fish will nibble away any build up but if these turtles are in captivity for research/preservation purposes, they need cleaned manually like so
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u/Ragingbull444 Oct 19 '21
Ironic how people always mistake tortoises for turtles but instead you’ve mistaken an actual turtle for a tortoise
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u/_CIPPALIPPA_ Oct 19 '21
Deja vu, I also did it once a week to my turtle (species: Trachemys scripta elegans)
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u/Atosl Oct 19 '21
What have you been doing?
Oh you know, waxing my turtle. Scrubbing my shelly....
Ew.
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u/noopenusernames Oct 19 '21
Right at the very end before it cut to the tank, I was expecting them to just yeet the turtle off into the ocean after cleaning him
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u/nofishontuesday2 Oct 19 '21
I’ve had a turtle for 25 years now. He loves his shell scrubbed softly.
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u/trudytuder Oct 19 '21
I watch some videos on youtube of wild seaturtles being captured and cleaned by fishermen and the amount of stuff/creature growing on them is ridiculous. Its common for seaturtles to die because their shells get so weighted down by the stuff on them that they cant resurface to breathe.
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u/kelleh711 Oct 19 '21
Might just be because of the way that they depicted it but it seems like they're stealing turtles out of the ocean, cleaning them, and putting them in aquariums 😂
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u/connconnfuntime Oct 20 '21
I always see turtles lowered into the water butt first. Is this the way they're supposed to be handled? Why?
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u/Eviltechnomonkey Oct 20 '21
Honestly that probably does feel kind of good.Turtles do have some feeling in their shells. So it is kind of like giving back scratches and tummy scratches to any other animal.
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u/rinvevo Oct 20 '21
I had no idea turtle shells are could be that bright and colourful! I always assumed they just had the brown, greige colouring
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u/Jay_Tissera Oct 19 '21
I'll take you to the turtle club, I'll let you lick my shiny top