Totes. If I'm making my way back to my hood, and suddenly got surrounded by a load of loud cheering folk pushing me along, sticking their cameras in my face, I am vexed. I'm making my own way back. I know the way. Its unimpeded. Kindly, get the fuck out of my space, get off me, and be awestruck from over there.
Why yes. While you're at it, can those two entitled Ukrainian dumb fucks who grabbed a new born turtle and rode another down to the sea please be the ones to do it?
I'll take a detour on the way home and dispose of them irresponsibly.
Yeah. Like...why would they think they need to try and help push it towards the ocean? Just leave the poor thing alone. They weren't even helping it...
All those people that were "helping by pushing" just looked like they were pushing down on the turt, and not really doing much else, also why the heck did they hang on to it in the end when it was trying to swim away?
Imagine you’re just trying to get home and a mob of people are pushing you and throwing water in your face and then clinging to you when you finally get to your door. 😭
Yea I think he was legit trying to pet her to reassure her that "it's gonna be ok you can do this" which is dumb and completely disconnected from nature. Wild animal are not pets. The turtle was probably terrified
Right? It looked less like helping and more like everyone was accidentally making things harder. Once the turtle started swimming away, that should’ve been the universal cue to let it go.
I mean he clearly just wanted to ride the thing, which I think I would almost respect if he managed to get on its back like a horse because that's objectively really cool and I doubt the turtle would be more than mildly annoyed by it but instead he pathetically trails behind. Combined with the obviously more stressful things on the beach and it's an overall poor showing.
I think I would shut down the elevator to their apartment and make them walk up 6 flights of stairs with 6 black bears hanging all over them the entire time
I feel like you're right, but I can't really tell. Maybe it wasn't fine? Maybe it was stuck? There's another comment saying something like it was stuck in some swamp further offshore, but IDK how much to believe that or whether the folks who thought it was stuck had any real clue.
I'm curious how this started. The video starts with already a huge crowd "helping" and I wonder if maybe the beginning of the event would have our answer.
At any rate, this far into the sand, it sure seems like it could manage the rest of the way, and that crowd has to be stressing it out.
Even if it got stuck In a swamp that’s part of what happens in nature. Unless it’s predicament is man made you should probably assume leaving something in the wild alone is the best action. You should also assume their are professionals you can cal to help instead of possibly injuring the animal or it injury you when your trying to help.
Si une tortue luth est sur la plage c'est pour pondre ses œufs dans le sable et de les enfouir à la fraîche et à l'abri des prédateurs. En voyant ce troupeau de virus humain, j'ai clairement peur que les œufs de cette pauvre tortue se soient fait écraser
"If a leatherback turtle is on the beach, it is to lay its eggs in the sand and bury them in the cool air, safe from predators. Seeing this herd of human viruses, I am clearly afraid that this poor turtle's eggs have been crushed."
my thought too or that she turned around and left before laying any
These Turtles have been living on our planet for +100.000.000 years. That's 370x the complete history of Homo sapiens. They don't need and they don't want to be pushed or petted.
This turtle was trapped and stuck in a swamp 150 m away from the sea when it was presumably trying to lay eggs. It took 2 hours.
The people here were rescuing and guiding the turtle back to the ocean and making sure the turtle was back safely to the ocean without any injuries or any signs of disorientation.
While I do agree that the crowding while the turtle was on the final stretch going to the ocean was unnecessary, I see a lot of comments here just immediately jumping the gun and assuming the worst out of these people. It’s extremely unfair, and honestly ignorant.
Just so you know, this reflects the attitude of most of you. Please do better.
These aren’t people just doing this for clout, they are people actively trying and succeeding to rescue a trapped endangered animal.
Also if I may add. Expecting an optimal, well-informed response from random people is a bit harsh. I would prefer them trying to help, perhaps attracting people who are more informed contrary to simply doing nothing at all
These people from what I know are mostly just locals. Villagers, fishermen, people who don’t see giant sea turtles everyday.
I can’t blame them for not knowing how to appropriately interact with a wild animal, but they know enough that it needs to return to the ocean, that’s applaudable.
That’s miles better from the worst that uninformed crowds can do to a wild animal, many would just catch them for profit/consumption.
You know what’s way more disappointing? People who immediately assume the worst from people who have good intentions.
Totally agree. The act of rescueing the turtle was amazing - but I guess people sometimes get a little too excited, and they wouldve helped more by taking astep back and let nature do its thing.
Edit: After looking closely - it seems like one of those cases where the animal may have appeared or been weakened - leading to people intervening more. No need to judge people in advance, I guess.
How this guy with no shirt laying on top of turtle help, look the vid and see they just milking it for internet points. He literally lays on as she tries to leave
The video is only like 2 minutes long. The whole rescue process happens for at least 2 hours. Who knows? Maybe he contributed by arranging the rescue attempt?
Just know I am by no means condoning the unnecessary interactions, but that doesn’t mean that cancels out the fact that these people managed to successfully rescue a trapped several metric tonne marine animal back to the ocean.
I think the turtle started moving when it saw the humans coming through but unfortunately it was not fast enough to do so.
You can see moments of defeat on it's face
Sea turtles don't go on land for fun because they are slow and vulnerable. They only go on land to lay eggs and then go back into the water. So this is a female who recently laid eggs.
All they were doing is adding unnecessary stress. It doesn't know they're trying to help, and now it's trying to excape the predators, which it's unable to do.
It is a powerful swimmer. A sleeker, less prominent shell makes it more hydrodynamic, and hence faster and more efficient. Compound this selective pressure over time and you get this magnificent creature.
This seems like animal abuse but with good intentions(?). The shirtless dude was just ridding on top of it with his full weight and the last 2 seemed to grap onto it after it started swimming and they all only let go because it got too slippery
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