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Sep 12, 2023 4:45 PM
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MantisTobagganMD
I'll never understand why someone would choose to communicate with emojis like this. I have no problem with using emojis, but...like...one or two, at the end of your message/post/etc. This "throw in an emoji anywhere and everywhere" nonsense is so dumb.
SomebodyalreadytookMyPants
Was no-one else traumatized by that movie we had to watch in school that showed every single baby turtle get killed on their way to the ocean? the 80s were a hellish place
sylkysmooth
I legitimately hate the way that person wrote that caption.
knivesandzilla
I've had to do these counts. Sometimes we are lucky and find little baby turtles and because we're with the wildlife officers it's okay to pick them up and safely release them. They can get buried by sand a little bit or other various reasons for staying behind
miket953
Quit with all the emojis and write a sentence
Talligan
Another turtle has made it to the water
CheeseDanish444
They all froze at the wrong moment and forgot to come out of their eggs.
georgedragonslayer
Isn't a 70 egg clutch a little low for most sea turtles? I was under the impression they do 100+ normally.
WaitingForCoffee
Herebychoice
*they're ok
BeerandCats
goflyblind
zylokun
only six hatched? No they are very dead.
kaarbaakimgr
Soup for dinner?
MagicKarpy
I did this over a couple summers. This usually means the nest was left under the high water mark and that killed the nest.
MagicKarpy
It's one of the reasons they patrol the beach at night. To notice any nests being made and relocate them if needed.
Zahnradfee
"Hello, ma'am? You can't make your nest here. Please move a few meters up the beach. Thank you."
Ogri
at least - two words. press Space.
ebonyfaery
Emoji use like this is gross
korndogg83
Who the 𤏠wrote this đŹ piece of đ??
brownribbon
What?
WenTheEternallySurprised
Notice that the emoji-riddled illiterate shit is what gets posted, not links to scientific articles? It's because people feel threatened around people who seem smart.
woozle
*they're
TheZodiacKillerForHumanPresident
*theriye're
VolcanoHerder
Also, *were *at least
DiabloGrandeArts
they're was*
CouldntCakeLess
WaterUnderTheRocketAppliances
YouTubeRed
He still likes turtles (sound)
Sticklebrickk
Lol they got the same reporter, too
CouldntCakeLess
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
EverNotRelevant
Fun fact: the sex of a sea turtle is determined by the temperature of the egg. Rising global temperatures have led to a dangerous decrease of males.
TheWackoTaco
Wouldnât a higher female-male ratio be positive for the birth rate? If yes, the the turtle population would expand faster
EverNotRelevant
I'm not well informed on the matter, but I would guess there are insufficient males to make up for the imbalance.
IFoldlyGo
The males get tired eventually?
KellyCrazyCatLadyinTraining
At first I was like, âand the females donât?!â But then I understood that you meant âtired from breeding,â as in, one male engaging in coitus with multiple females would get tired, and I agree with you.
harthram
Currently about 99% of hatched turtles are female. Males are now extremely rare
Zahnradfee
There is a reason why most animals have a 50:50 sex ratio. If another ratio was more beneficial for a species, evolution would have changed the ratio. I forgot how exactly it works, but somehow the 50:50 ratio is the best.
ProgeriaProstitutes
It has to do with the chances of reproduction for any individual animal. However, that doesn't mean the species as a whole has more surviving chance with a 1:1 ratio.
Slimewire
Not if individual encounters are rare. If 99% of turtles encounters are female:female then there's no opportunity to breed
eaeaeaeaea
The world spins on pain!
thisismysociallife
Isnât a 10% hatch rate like the norm for sea turtles anyway
TheMajesticHarpyEagle
Hatch rate is okay but the after-hatch survival is shit
Magpiebones
Quick google says 90%.
thisismysociallife
Da3n
They dig them out because you count the number of intact(dead) eggs and the number of broken(hatched) ones. Otherwise you would have to stand and watch the nest for days counting the live ones and still not know the survival rate.
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Muffinburgler
No, they wouldn't. They're past their hatch date, they were already dead.
brazzy42
Exactly the opposite, actually. The most common reason for eggs not to hatch is that the nest got flooded at high tide because it's too close to the shore. The solution to that is to dig up such nests immediately after they're laid and relocate them higher up.
quade
There's a reason they lay so many
Blastergv9
Don't look up the odds on the 6 that got out surviving
Ohyesireallydidthat
Yea because a lot of them gets eaten while running to the ocean after hatcing. 6 out of 70 is disastrous
pleaseconsiderthatImightbejoking
esp since the only reason any make it at all is because so many hatching at once.
MileysVirus
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory
khora
They should lay them where there isnât climate change.
dogstarlove
Went to the sea turtle sanctuary on South Padre Island, TX. Temperature variances are a big problem for egg viability.
Ohyesireallydidthat
AFAIK the temperature affects what gender they turn out to be. Higher temps will hatch females only, which is obviously problematic.
dogstarlove
True, and if they're above 95°, it'll prevent embryo formation
Putitinyomama
BeaverOnFire
This is the way.
quade
Ah, a turtle pit on drugs
q2grapple
I like Bill Hicksâ but about that. Basically never been so high I thought an egg was a brain
q2grapple
*bit
The3rdwheel
also a reason to leave it alone .
ChicanoBatman
Live in Baja Mexico and it's turtle season right now. Awesome to walk on the beach and see a nest with sticks around it to identify and protect. There are turtle release sites here in Todos Santos, that are so much fun to go down in the evenings with friends to release the babies into the sea. One of my favorite things about living here.
Magpiebones
The hatch rate is usually much better
mouseasw
Isn't it getting worse in recent years directly due to warmer temperatures?
SpqrMcmlxxxvi
And city lights, and pollution, and compromised or shrinking habitats. The list goes on.
MeshHatMafia
RightâŚisnât the main reason because although most hatch, most of those donât make it to the sea or survive the first year
Magpiebones
Yep. One in a thousand might make it to breeding age.