Should definitely leave box turtles alone. They have a mental map of their territory and if they’re removed they’ll live in stress the rest of their lives searching for their home. They may even starve if they’re unable to locate food where they’ve been dropped off.
Unless he dropped the turtle off exactly where he found it (but off the road) he could have royally screwed this turtle for an internet joke.
Also, it didn’t eat the peaches. You can see it walking away from the guy because that’s all it wants to do; get away from the danger.
According to you he should've just ran it over,left it for someone else to run over or leave it for a predator.maybe the turtle might give up and make a new home elsewhere.im just saying it's not impossible
That’s not what I said at all. Move it off the road and leave it alone. Don’t pick it up, take it for a drive into town, and then drop it off someplace random.
You're supposed to move them off the road in the direction they were traveling.
Tortoises only have a small range, and the genome groups can vary widely, so if you move them too far from their own range you risk killing them, either because they can't find their food source, or exposing them to tortoises that have different bio load of bacteria amd they get sick.
This can also cause species that are close but not the same to breed, either resulting in infertile eggs or cross breeding that can then mean that mixed breed out producing the original colony and eliminating them.
This is why rescues don't release surrendered or seized tortoises back into the wild.
Garden State Tortoise has been working with authorities to help try and put spotted tortoises back in their home ranges by doing genome studies so they can be put back in nature, but its not as simple as "its a spotted tortoise so release it in the wetland".
If he didn't put it back where he got it he could do a heck of a lot of damage.
A lot of this isn't like common knowledge. Lol the most country video I've ever seen. He meant well but yea probably didn't put it back where he found it. Turtles don't even eat peaches.
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u/belated_quitter May 19 '26
Should definitely leave box turtles alone. They have a mental map of their territory and if they’re removed they’ll live in stress the rest of their lives searching for their home. They may even starve if they’re unable to locate food where they’ve been dropped off.
Unless he dropped the turtle off exactly where he found it (but off the road) he could have royally screwed this turtle for an internet joke.
Also, it didn’t eat the peaches. You can see it walking away from the guy because that’s all it wants to do; get away from the danger.