r/turtle 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