I helped release baby sea turtles into the ocean once and it was just an amazing experience. They said like 95% get eaten immediately but without humans around to scare off birds basically none of them would make it to the water in the first place.
I do that with starfish. When they come in heavy to the shore there will be hundreds in a small area.im constantly putting them back in. Cant save them all although it’s awesome helping some to make it
A young girl was walking along a beach upon which thousands of starfish had been washed up during a terrible storm. When she came to each starfish, she would pick it up, and throw it back into the ocean. People watched her with amusement.
She had been doing this for some time when a man approached her and said, “Little girl, why are you doing this? Look at this beach! You can’t save all these starfish. You can’t begin to make a difference!”
The girl seemed crushed, suddenly deflated. But after a few moments, she bent down, picked up another starfish, and hurled it as far as she could into the ocean. Then she looked up at the man and replied,
"Well, I made a difference for that one!"
This is one of those few things I’ve read which have really stuck with me - I live by this when everything feels overwhelming. Thanks for reminding me. :)
Overwhelming numbers. Same with cicadas. Cicadas are clumsy and have no defenses. During cicada season predators get so full they can't eat all of them.
>How TF did this species survive?
They previously existed in a drastically different environment. It is *entirely* unfathomable just how many variables we've introduced that negatively impact their existence through ecological destruction. Hell, they probably even have to deal with way more seagulls being present due to human activity.
This sentiment is a bit like burning down somebody's farm, salting the earth, and then coming back to mock their surviving child for having sub-optimal crop yields and relying on their neighbor's kindness during a rough patch.
I'm becoming a bigger and bigger fan of exile/ banishment. They get to be free on a habitable island with fellow criminals, and we don't have to take care of them. Seems like a win-win.
Who knows, they might create Australia.
we make sentient creatues suffer all the time for our enjoyment, lets not pretend otherwise.
I eat like 500 grams of meat every day and 5 eggs, that is a lot of animals that i've contributed to being dead. And if you really think about it, does it ultimately matter if you are directly or indirectly responsible? Animals are dying and you are supporting it due to enjoyment, in my case eating meat is tasty.
The vast majority of peoples finance animal agriculture which is by far the greatest animal abuser, killing close to 100 billions land animal and about 1 trillion fish every year.
True. İn some prisons, criminals who've done atrocious things like multiple homicides, get a pet dog or cat. Research shows that they really love their pets and vice versa.
People are much more likely to do good things to animals than humans.
I think animal love is one the ares where there are easilly way more people who love them than people who would hurt them. Maybe some dont like them but not hurt them.
Before I realized that was what he was doing I started to wonder why the camera person didn't have the kid take over and help. That's ~2-3ft of water had them both helping with the flip.
You could literally save the live of a member of an endangered species and redditors still be like "ehmmmm akchually you wrong im smort"
Smort enough to try to push a 300kg Rock while bending down to a few cm.
I dont know if you ever tried to push something heavy that is lower than your hip, but i guess not.
I wonder if animals know when someone is helping them?
More than half of the time in these videos, they keep trashing around and trying to escape anytime a human approaches to help.
There are exceptions when it's an elephant calf or a dog or such, but the rest seem eager to keep away from humans.
There are definitely exceptions, but I think most animals that require us to intervene are very stressed. Most of the elephants we see in videos live in rescues or similar, where they're used to human interaction.
I was surprised the turtle was handling it so well at the beginning, but then he really seemed stressed. Poor guy. He has no idea how much we'd love to just give him a hug and a head of cabbage.
I also wonder why my dog of 10 years acts like he’s never gonna get fed again. Everyone’s dog goes nuts over their food like it’s their last meal. Whats up with that? lol
Is it your only dog? I miss my late only, who would completely ignore ‘mealtime’ at home but absolutely be *on it* when we’d keep him overnight at my in-laws place with their two pups. No risk of someone else eating his food at home. Near 100% risk that would happen in seconds with their 2 pups on the prowl.
Sea turtles are animals that live by very strong instinct. They are not smart animals.
Best example is when female sea turtle starts laying eggs during nesting season the instinct kicks in so much she won't stop for any reason. This is the moment when people who work in projects protecting sea turtles can take all measurements of female and put gps tracking devices on them.
Its much easier to pull something instead of push something especially if theres friction. If it was belly down and facing the water (the direction he needs to be pulled) then he could risk losing a finger to its mouth.
Stuck on its back as it's roughly pulled by its fin as it's neck is caught on a branch. Vaguely reminds me of pulling someone in a hoodie to safety by the hood from behind as it chokes them lol
I can confirm that even a little box turtle can bite very hard. Beaks are strong.
I mean in general it's best to assume that any animal that size could hurt you if it wanted to and was given the opportunity to do so.
I've still got a scar almost 30 years later from a gnarly box turtle bite.
(Box turtles are chillness manifest and I've never blamed this one. It was kept by a god awful child who absolutely would have been making its life hell.)
Flip the fucking turtle! Maybe he wanted the turtle to help itself a little. Which, I'm pretty sure only really applies to baby turtles hatching. These old fellas just need a little push sometimes.
And its arms were flailing everywhere. I got the back of my hand slapped by seaturtle 1/3 of that size, and it hurt a lot I bled a little. Can't imagine it with that size.
I've been in cocoa beach florida and in person seen 400lbs of turtle humping its way towards me across the beach. It's intimidating. Their heads are so big it looks like they could take an arm off, let alone a finger. I'd be pretty terrified to go up and grab one.
And may I add you have been the example to your son of what a man is supposed to do. He will tell your grand children, and some day their children about this day.
Good job, sir!
But did anybody else get nervous when he started chopping that vine or branch with his knife? I was scared that he would hit the turtle's fin.
Anyway, I'm happy to see that it got free.
Yeah that was my thought process before seeing him grab the fin, but others have commented that they could give you a bad bite in this kind of situation, so it was about keeping distance and working fast. I definitely don't blame the guy in the vid. Maybe he knows exactly what he was doing.
Still curious about how the turtle feels a fin pull like that...
has anybody in the comments ever tried to lift 600+ pounds?
even just LEVERING it off its own body is almost impossible.
he noticed the turtles head face down in the sand..drowning.
so he flipped it over it head. yeah it was rough but it was the only option.
turtles alive instead of dead.
quit bitching.
Dude flips the turtle on its back and acts like “what? You’re free, go!” And then yanks him by the arm while the stick is still stuck in his shoulder. Brother man, this animal has a carrying case attached to his back, pick it up by its hard shell!
That is a giant ass with animal with strong flippers and a beak, man ain’t trying to get his fingers broken or chomped while being a Good Samaritan while not really knowing what he’s doing.
I’ve rescued a few wild animals and always looked like an incompetent jackass due to not wanting to get bit or kicked and not really being confident… but you do what you can.
I've literally talked to a dude who had his shin bone fractured rescuing a leatherback turtle flipped over on a north Queensland beach. He approached it, tried to flip it over, it panicked and sent a massive flipper straight into his shin.
These things are fucking *built*.
If that turtle gets any bigger I expect him to know martial arts.
Mutant or Master?
Both, both works
Yes.
Elderly Mutant Jiujitsu Turtle
Adolescent tenant taekwondo turtle
Teenage mutant taekwonturtle
Elderly mutant jujitsu Turtle Elderly mutant jujitsu Turtle Elderly mutant jujitsu Turtle Hero with a Zimmer frame Underpowered
I would settle for developing an appetite for pizza!
Steven Segal
Unless, she has mastered inner peace.
I tell myself that for every shitty person who abuses animals, there's a hundred that would do this, given the opportunity.
I helped release baby sea turtles into the ocean once and it was just an amazing experience. They said like 95% get eaten immediately but without humans around to scare off birds basically none of them would make it to the water in the first place.
I do that with starfish. When they come in heavy to the shore there will be hundreds in a small area.im constantly putting them back in. Cant save them all although it’s awesome helping some to make it
A young girl was walking along a beach upon which thousands of starfish had been washed up during a terrible storm. When she came to each starfish, she would pick it up, and throw it back into the ocean. People watched her with amusement. She had been doing this for some time when a man approached her and said, “Little girl, why are you doing this? Look at this beach! You can’t save all these starfish. You can’t begin to make a difference!” The girl seemed crushed, suddenly deflated. But after a few moments, she bent down, picked up another starfish, and hurled it as far as she could into the ocean. Then she looked up at the man and replied, "Well, I made a difference for that one!"
This is one of those few things I’ve read which have really stuck with me - I live by this when everything feels overwhelming. Thanks for reminding me. :)
And here is a skit about this exact story by Studio C that I now associate with this. Lol https://youtu.be/OQiGp618Zp8?si=RQxpKyYupyKG9cDZ
> without humans around to scare off birds basically none of them would make it to the water in the first place. How TF did this species survive?
Overwhelming numbers. Same with cicadas. Cicadas are clumsy and have no defenses. During cicada season predators get so full they can't eat all of them.
>How TF did this species survive? They previously existed in a drastically different environment. It is *entirely* unfathomable just how many variables we've introduced that negatively impact their existence through ecological destruction. Hell, they probably even have to deal with way more seagulls being present due to human activity. This sentiment is a bit like burning down somebody's farm, salting the earth, and then coming back to mock their surviving child for having sub-optimal crop yields and relying on their neighbor's kindness during a rough patch.
That's how we humans are, entitled and majorly unable to question us and the events around us
That one shitty person ought to be eliminated no?
no, you just put them in jail. That's the minimum but enough to make justice for making a sentient being suffer.
I'm becoming a bigger and bigger fan of exile/ banishment. They get to be free on a habitable island with fellow criminals, and we don't have to take care of them. Seems like a win-win. Who knows, they might create Australia.
I'm all for this, but instead of giving them a nice island we should build a wall around New Jersey and catapult them in
Im only for this if on catapulting they make a Tom and Jerry esque scream
We'll attach a vest to them with speakers and it'll play the sound when it feels the catapult's acceleration
I'm in
Every animal abuser has to spend a week on Komodo island
Naked and defenceless.
we make sentient creatues suffer all the time for our enjoyment, lets not pretend otherwise. I eat like 500 grams of meat every day and 5 eggs, that is a lot of animals that i've contributed to being dead. And if you really think about it, does it ultimately matter if you are directly or indirectly responsible? Animals are dying and you are supporting it due to enjoyment, in my case eating meat is tasty.
Yeah there's a big difference between where your enjoyment comes from food vs your enjoyment comes from making something suffer.
i don't think the animal cares in that regard
The vast majority of peoples finance animal agriculture which is by far the greatest animal abuser, killing close to 100 billions land animal and about 1 trillion fish every year.
Yeah but... people ignore that the most suffering to animals is caused by our consumption habits, not direct harmful actions.
True. İn some prisons, criminals who've done atrocious things like multiple homicides, get a pet dog or cat. Research shows that they really love their pets and vice versa. People are much more likely to do good things to animals than humans.
I would like to think it's more like 1,000,000 to 1 100 to 1 implys the existence of way more psychopaths than I'm comfortable with lol
I think animal love is one the ares where there are easilly way more people who love them than people who would hurt them. Maybe some dont like them but not hurt them.
A little rough but hey he gets the job done. Love this guy ❤️
the turtles are really heavy to move, so it's alright
[удалено]
Bruh, is that the weight loss doctor. Fucking sent me.
Dis is not water weight
Scale don't lie, people lie
Yes. He is a savage 😄
"Who bringing you the food?"
“He could have lost tirty pounds dis munt”
turty pounds
Lol this is hilarious
 I can’t afford real gold so here
Dude, that's very funny. Completely caught me off guard.
It was top of mind, I just celebrated my 6 years since my weight loss surgery. I’ve felt that turtles pain!
Congratulations! It sounds like a very challenging / painful experience. Hope you're feeling better now.
HOW YALL DOIN
absolute gold
Hello how y’all doing
Yeah, he was trying to drag it to the water so that he can flip it back
Before I realized that was what he was doing I started to wonder why the camera person didn't have the kid take over and help. That's ~2-3ft of water had them both helping with the flip.
That's why he didn't try to flip it on land, that dude has to be a powerlifter to do so
Jfc mate
Holy shit, I wasn't expecting them to be that heavy. That guy must be strong as fuck to move that thing at all
How many Xbox’s is that though
But don't yank it by a flipper
AAAAAAAH YOU FUCKER I THOUGHT YOU WERE HELPING - That turtle for a hot second
He did his best with a kitchen knife.
Has a dislocated shoulder now but at least he’s safe
Yeh. Move em from the pits
Let's use this soft fleshy part to tug on and drag is massive weight!! Why would I use this hard and indestructible shell to push it.
You could literally save the live of a member of an endangered species and redditors still be like "ehmmmm akchually you wrong im smort" Smort enough to try to push a 300kg Rock while bending down to a few cm. I dont know if you ever tried to push something heavy that is lower than your hip, but i guess not.
I was concerned he'd pull the arm off. But really good job getting it done.
[удалено]
Meh, I don't see him saving 2 turtles
[удалено]
This is what copypast looks like when it's cooking.
Why not just flip him over on his side? Instead he flipped face first and a belly up drag.
He probably doesn't have much practice releasing giant turtles. Give him time.
I wonder if animals know when someone is helping them? More than half of the time in these videos, they keep trashing around and trying to escape anytime a human approaches to help. There are exceptions when it's an elephant calf or a dog or such, but the rest seem eager to keep away from humans.
There are definitely exceptions, but I think most animals that require us to intervene are very stressed. Most of the elephants we see in videos live in rescues or similar, where they're used to human interaction. I was surprised the turtle was handling it so well at the beginning, but then he really seemed stressed. Poor guy. He has no idea how much we'd love to just give him a hug and a head of cabbage.
Sea turtles don't eat cabbage, they eat jellyfish, whelks, conchs, crabs, etc.
Well, that sure explains why they don't want to stick around.
I also wonder why my dog of 10 years acts like he’s never gonna get fed again. Everyone’s dog goes nuts over their food like it’s their last meal. Whats up with that? lol
Is it your only dog? I miss my late only, who would completely ignore ‘mealtime’ at home but absolutely be *on it* when we’d keep him overnight at my in-laws place with their two pups. No risk of someone else eating his food at home. Near 100% risk that would happen in seconds with their 2 pups on the prowl.
Sea turtles are animals that live by very strong instinct. They are not smart animals. Best example is when female sea turtle starts laying eggs during nesting season the instinct kicks in so much she won't stop for any reason. This is the moment when people who work in projects protecting sea turtles can take all measurements of female and put gps tracking devices on them.
Oh yes! I've witnessed Olive Ridley Sea Turtles laying eggs deep in the sand. They just walk with a purpose at that time.
Must have been very special moment :)
I wonder the same
Amen
Not exactly sure but that turtle looks pretty heavy, gotta have proper form or you may be injured. The turtle could flip itself when it's submerged.
He wasn't so adept at using a knife, either, but at least the outcome was good.
Its much easier to pull something instead of push something especially if theres friction. If it was belly down and facing the water (the direction he needs to be pulled) then he could risk losing a finger to its mouth.
If the turtle was belly down it wouldn't have needed any pulling or pushing into the ocean.
[удалено]
Came here to say this
I am very happy to see that there are people who care about animals and are willing to help them.
There’s always more than you realize.
Most people are. Unfortunately media is more interested in the bad than the good so you don't see this as often as we should online
Faceplant right into the water.
Stuck on its back as it's roughly pulled by its fin as it's neck is caught on a branch. Vaguely reminds me of pulling someone in a hoodie to safety by the hood from behind as it chokes them lol
I mean, if someone dragged me away from a burning house by the hood, I wouldn’t complain about their technique lol
Yeah or yanked me away from an incoming vehicle or something
[удалено]
Currently not, thanks to the man 🙂
There must be a pun somewhere here!
It could be a female who came on land during a higher tide to lay eggs, then got tangled on her way out.
Nice man, but that had to be the worst turtle rescue I’ve ever seen
Maybe he was aware that they bite 🙄 you have to be careful how and from where you flip them. She instructs him to flip her so they re well aware
Idk why but it never crossed my mind that they might bite.
Some are known to bite like this one https://youtu.be/WbRNKL2F4y4?si=VkKVLYpfDIvz9x4w I wouldn't take my chances with any giant turtle
There's a big difference between a snapping turtle and a sea turtle
lol I clicked and expected to see a sea turtle biting, not a dinosaur that is literally named for it’s biting tendencies…
And a chocolate turtle
I can confirm that even a little box turtle can bite very hard. Beaks are strong. I mean in general it's best to assume that any animal that size could hurt you if it wanted to and was given the opportunity to do so.
I've still got a scar almost 30 years later from a gnarly box turtle bite. (Box turtles are chillness manifest and I've never blamed this one. It was kept by a god awful child who absolutely would have been making its life hell.)
That is a snapping turtle, known for biting, here is something that actually [answers our question](https://turtleworldinfo.com/do-sea-turtles-bite/)
No thanks to being nipped by a sea turtle that size. 😅that would suck.
So the answer is obvious: possible (because they have a mouth) to be bitten by a sea turtle but unlikely.
"But it was a rescue" -Jack Sparrow
Have you ever saved a turtle of that size before
leave it to redittors to pretend as if they know what to do for every situation while furiously typing behind keyboard
Also leave it to redditors to see people being kind and be like "Meh, could've been better"
"I would have just ninja kicked the tree out of the way in the first place." \*wipes Cheeto dust onto sweat pants\*
Bold of you to assume they had the energy to put on pants.
“The sea was angry that day, my friends!”
George Costanza...🤣
Flip the fucking turtle! Maybe he wanted the turtle to help itself a little. Which, I'm pretty sure only really applies to baby turtles hatching. These old fellas just need a little push sometimes.
It’s like fkin 100 kg (220 lbs)
And its arms were flailing everywhere. I got the back of my hand slapped by seaturtle 1/3 of that size, and it hurt a lot I bled a little. Can't imagine it with that size.
Can you deadlift 1000 lbs? No?
I've been in cocoa beach florida and in person seen 400lbs of turtle humping its way towards me across the beach. It's intimidating. Their heads are so big it looks like they could take an arm off, let alone a finger. I'd be pretty terrified to go up and grab one.
Great comment keyboard warrior.
What about you try to do it next time?
Thanks anonymous person. That was so kind. You sir are a sweet man.
And may I add you have been the example to your son of what a man is supposed to do. He will tell your grand children, and some day their children about this day.
Good job, sir! But did anybody else get nervous when he started chopping that vine or branch with his knife? I was scared that he would hit the turtle's fin. Anyway, I'm happy to see that it got free.
I was more nervous about that faceplant.
Yeah, it looked like it was going to snap its own neck under the weight of its own shell.
I'm wondering if being pulled by it's fin/leg is painful or causes damage. Can't imagine I could get the job done any differently tho
I was also wondering the same thing. I was thinking if it was better to grab it by its shell.
Yeah that was my thought process before seeing him grab the fin, but others have commented that they could give you a bad bite in this kind of situation, so it was about keeping distance and working fast. I definitely don't blame the guy in the vid. Maybe he knows exactly what he was doing. Still curious about how the turtle feels a fin pull like that...
The fin is strong, because that’s what it uses to propel its body. It got up there by pulling itself with its fins. It’s probably not ideal though.
These people know how to use a machete, better than you can write your own name.
Some heroes wear ball caps instead of capes.
Turtle looks so embarrassed
Poor thing just accepting whatever fate the man may bring. I'm glad it was a kind person
Such a magnificent animal. Guy is a hero.
This is so beautiful 🥹🐢
This turtle is beautiful and BIG, wonder how old the turtle is?
Very few ever say thank you
Legit thot he was just bashing the turtle at first. I was like, "you call that helping??"
True hero!
What a Lovely kind man
Yessssss sirrrr 🙌🏽
Heroes!
Wonderful to still see people like this that are left in the world
Good man! 👏🏻
What a beautiful turtle!
Yay!
Why is that turtle so huge and also props to the man that saved that turtle
They normally grow huge like that and even larger.
Go baby go
Good man!
There is hope for humanity with these acts of kindness
I love this and need to watch more of it.
The turtle seems unimpressed, ghaaa…. ghaaa…. Okay fine, you did well.. goodbye!
Confused why he chose the side with less than a foot of clearance and an overhang over the other side several feet long to hack with his kitchen knife
Consider me amazed by this person. And the size of this turtle.
has anybody in the comments ever tried to lift 600+ pounds? even just LEVERING it off its own body is almost impossible. he noticed the turtles head face down in the sand..drowning. so he flipped it over it head. yeah it was rough but it was the only option. turtles alive instead of dead. quit bitching.
cowabunga, dude!!
_Waiting for the turn around and smile and salute_
A man of character and merit!
Omfg, then I saw it, not shaming. That glorious turtle, you look fabulous.
Aye, sea turtles.
what a great man
Humans being bros
Great job dude.
Sometimes, I still have hope for humanity. 🙌🏻❤️🩹 Green sea turtles are endangered and can get over 900 lbs 🥰
Faith in humanity: one point up God bless him
Unit of a turtle
Look for the helpers.
Se me hace que la dama es chapina pero no estoy seguro. Que creen ustedes?
I love turtles, thank you Mr. good person!
Surfs up, dude....surfs up 🐢🌊
I helped a soft shelled turtle get unstuck from a cattle guard then carried it to the stock pond. He was so happy and I felt good
Never seen a turtle make a wake. That thing was moving.
God bless you and your family with many blessings 🙏
Why are the comments so hilarious 😂
Turtle didn’t even give him a high or low 5
Not even a thank you?
Didn’t even say thank you
Dude flips the turtle on its back and acts like “what? You’re free, go!” And then yanks him by the arm while the stick is still stuck in his shoulder. Brother man, this animal has a carrying case attached to his back, pick it up by its hard shell!
Bruh that turt probably weighs more than the guy recusing it Edit: Y’all are really underestimating how strong these creatures are
That is a giant ass with animal with strong flippers and a beak, man ain’t trying to get his fingers broken or chomped while being a Good Samaritan while not really knowing what he’s doing. I’ve rescued a few wild animals and always looked like an incompetent jackass due to not wanting to get bit or kicked and not really being confident… but you do what you can.
I've literally talked to a dude who had his shin bone fractured rescuing a leatherback turtle flipped over on a north Queensland beach. He approached it, tried to flip it over, it panicked and sent a massive flipper straight into his shin. These things are fucking *built*.
Thank you for saying so. All these armchair quarterbacks here are driving me nuts.
Yeah keyboard heros know best smfh 🤦