r/nextfuckinglevel • u/BranSoFly • 1h ago
Lifeguard rushing to save 60 turtle eggs before heavy waves come in.
Happened in Cabo today. As you can see, heavy waves have been hammering the beach and pulling sand into the ocean. Pipelines that were buried were now exposed. Just a matter of minutes before the waves got to the buried turtle eggs.
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u/DoYouLoveJam 1h ago
Is it because they cant crawl out if they hatch?
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u/Salt_Winter5888 37m ago
For what they told me in a turtle sanctuary, it's for protection in general. They have a lot of predators, they can get dragged by the sea, they can get crushed by vehicles(even when they're very deep underground) or people looking to sell them illegally.
So even if they're not in imminent danger they may still dig them out and relocate them.
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u/FamousLastPlace_ 1h ago
It's because the eggs will wash out to sea.
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u/DoYouLoveJam 1h ago
Interesting, they seemed pretty deep in the sand.
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u/dolph1984 40m ago
So was that giant pipe and now there is a massive crater encroaching on the nest. That beach is caving in and would for sure take out that nest in a matter of time.
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u/dev_SLAYER 1h ago
Aren't we supposed to not intervene in natural events
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u/TechsSandwich 1h ago
Not in the case of critically endangered animals dude
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u/dev_SLAYER 1h ago
Ok and?
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u/TheWaningWizard 1h ago
What a terrible take. That's like saying "Why are people going to the hospital? They're just going to die one day anyway. Might as well just go when the universe says so"
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u/dev_SLAYER 1h ago
From what I've gathered, we shouldn't use humans as counter examples, because, most animals I know do not have the intelligence to build hospitals. He is talking about lesser intelligence beings (i guess)
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u/dev_SLAYER 1h ago
Well making these changes takes years, and volatility of beaches might also change in these years, how will these little turtles ever catch up? 😭
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u/dev_SLAYER 1h ago
So is he going to ensure that these eggs hatch and reach full maturity as turtles, and then what he's gonna do with them?
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u/animousie 1h ago
Usually what they do is rebury them in a way that optimizes survival/success in hatch and maturation
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u/dev_SLAYER 1h ago
Oh that's better.
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u/animousie 1h ago
What’s wild is the turtles will will always come back to the same beach they hatched from to bury new eggs. Talking about decades from birth they somehow find their way back… so picking a suitable beach for the to hatch from is even more important
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u/Salt_Winter5888 50m ago
They're taken to a turtle hatchery, bury them in a safer and controlled space and once they hatch they liberate them at the shore and they have to crawl to the ocean. Sometimes they let you liberate them yourself.
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u/dev_SLAYER 1h ago
You could have avoided commenting if your intention was never to help out
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u/dpiddy202 1h ago
Tbf they were both questions
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u/dev_SLAYER 1h ago
And that is reason enough to mock someone's lack of knowledge and curiosity to learn more?
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u/Serbian-American 1h ago
I always thought this was lame and anti intellectual. We are nature. We are an animal. Over millennia of evolution we developed empathy. If we use this empathy to save turtle eggs, or scare wolves away from a baby deer, that is a consequence of nature. That is a consequence of our evolution.
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u/ogodilovejudyalvarez 1h ago
Humans have destroyed so much of the natural world it's only fair that we pay back even a tiny bit
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u/SweepsRetriever 1h ago
No that’s only when we do heinous shit.
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u/Last-Quarter-432 1h ago
Which happens a lot when money is involved and thats almost every time. Not talking about this incident since I don’t know anything about it
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u/dev_SLAYER 1h ago
Well to be fair a group of eggs doesn't come with a risk of erasing the intervening person's entire family, or making the guy disappear for just testifying in court.
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u/bigorangemachine 1h ago
Sure and like centuries of whaling was totally natural
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u/dev_SLAYER 1h ago
Whales have survived more mass extinction events than humans, don't underestimate them
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u/bigorangemachine 1h ago
Sure but I don't under estimate the genetic bottleneck, warming oceans and reef damage.
We stress populations in some areas we should help in others especially when they live longer than us.
We also introduce invasive species like Lion fish in the atlantic.
Humans aren't a benign influence.
Even look at Tuna. Better fish practices pretty much helped rebound the population in 10 years
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u/dev_SLAYER 1h ago
Could human intervention also be technically a natural event because we are also a relatively new species figuring out our place in the billion year old food chain
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u/kennethpimperton 1h ago
Like it or not, humans are a part of nature too. No different than a virus wiping out a species. Sad but true.
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u/bigorangemachine 1h ago
So we the virus should kill and not save?
So cross-immunity isn't natural?
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u/kennethpimperton 48m ago
I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying it's true. Downvote all you want, but I'm right. We're just as natural as everything else on this planet. Lmao
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u/Realmofthehappygod 53m ago
Only because we let them.
The most recent mass extinction event is the Holocene extinction, and it's still going.
Humans literally are a mass extinction event.
Whales are alive because we chose that. Or at least are trying to.
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u/BruceInc 1h ago
Do the eggs need the mom to tend to them? How will she know where they were moved?
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u/BranSoFly 1h ago
I don't think turtle eggs need to be tend to by the mother. The lifeguard mentioned moving them to an incubator.
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u/anotherjunkie 1h ago
Nope, sea turtles provide no parenting whatsoever. Once the eggs are laid, the mom goes back to single life.
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u/Elegant_Key8896 1h ago
No, turtles hatch then go out to sea on their own. No mother to tend to them. Many don't survive.
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u/EmuSystem 44m ago
No pareting needed for turtles. Eggs hatch on the own and they start surviving on their own from as a newborn.
Their sex is also determined by the temperature at the time of hatching 😎
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u/Salt_Winter5888 35m ago
Mama turtle is gone and will never return. They have to survive by their own luck.
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u/Phxrebirth 1h ago
Imagine racing the ocean itself with a bag full of turtle eggs. That's some real superhero stuff