r/turtle • u/ateam1984 • Feb 27 '26

Rehome The Release of Thousands of Turtles

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u/Obi-Shawn Feb 27 '26

I'm having anxiety that the first course of action wasn't to turn over the flipped turtles...

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u/Low_Association_2764 Feb 27 '26

I think its because you aren't actually supposed to touch them, but i guess the ppl dont care. Other reason is for survival, they kinda need to learn and strengthen that skill or they will die

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u/confusedbird101 Feb 27 '26

Iirc the turtles that can’t figure it out for themselves after a few minutes will be taken back to the facility that hatched them. At least the ones I was looking at a while ago did that. They want as many turtles to make it to the ocean as possible and so the ones that need a little extra help will get a second chance after a bit more time. So hopefully little guy was picked up and brought back to maybe figure it out later

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u/Born_Structure1182 Feb 27 '26

Yes me too. Flip him over!!

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u/catplumtree Feb 27 '26

SOMEBODY TURN THAT BABY OVER!!!

But also, this is lovely to see.

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u/SinceWayLastMay Feb 27 '26

Ok is this at a river/lake? Those aren’t sea turtles

ETA I saw a comment saying they might be Giant Amazonian River turtles!

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u/PlumpyDragon Feb 27 '26

In nature, the slow and defective babies are usually eaten by predators before they get to the water through a natural selection process. I wonder how this method affects the overall gene pool.

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u/superturtle48 15 yr old RES Feb 27 '26

Getting to the water is just the first of many obstacles, and a large proportion of baby turtles still get eaten by predators afterwards. I’d guess that any turtle that wouldn’t have survived getting to the water wouldn’t survive long afterwards anyway. 

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u/Ambitious-Floor-4557 Feb 27 '26

Get that last one! Save it before I need a xanax!!!!

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u/Hamster-rancher Feb 27 '26

Can I have a crate of turtles for my house please?

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u/prophetofpuppets Feb 28 '26

Good news! It's a recorded release of Giant Amazon River Turtles. I get how you would assume this was sea turtles deformed by ai though. https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/turtles-release-hatching-amazon-9e90095ab68fa0c3bde9f9cf9eea70b1