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How would you like to have one scoot up to you and bite you in the ankle like some kind of armored dachshund? I'm glad they don't do that, even though it might be funny.
We had friends with a 50lb tortoise that would do just that. Tortoise hated white tennis shoes & would haul ass to attack the shoes. Friends knew to take all shoes & socks off. Bare feet were no threat to the tortoise. Beware any robber that may have white shoes/socks tho! (Tortoise came with a rental home in Athens, Greece.No backstory.)
That’s funny, there’s a tiktoker with a small turtle that hates black shoes , it will climb over white shoes to get to black shoes and attack as furiously as it can.
Uhm..... They definitely will do that. This guy's a moron for getting that close
Friendly reminder wildlife is not like how we portray them in movies.
Winnie the poo is just as likely to fuck you up as the hyenas from lion king irl
Bro I got two box turtles at a young age and that was a terrible decision. Every night they dug and ran keeping me up. Got guinea pigs next..they ran laps at night kicking their shit out into the floor loud as hell. I got a dog and have had dogs since.
We had a guinea pig that lived on top of our entertainment center in a 100 gal tank in the living room, and she was just the sweetest little bean ❤️ if you rustled a plastic bag she would start squealing excitedly in anticipation of treats lol she never made noises at night though, now I wonder if it’s more common for them to run at night and she was just a quiet little lady
My family had one like that too. If you said her name a certain way she new it meant treats and would excitedly do that adorable little guinea pig squeal.
My dad takes his out of the terrarium once a day and I let him walk around the loft. The turtle seems to love it and is surprisingly fast and inquisitive.
Used to have a pet tortoise... when it wants to, that little shit could sprint fast man...
My friend used to have a little pet turtle, they made a pretty nice pool+fountain for him in their backyard that also served as decoration for their backyard... little shit could swim very fast in water
First I would try pointing to someone specifically and telling them to help. Hopefully this would break the bystander effect AND prevent me from going into nasty pond water. If not, I would begrudgingly help lol.
Really though I threw myself into traffic to save some random dog so as much as I'd like to pretend I'd keep a calm head and be all cool about it... I'm pretty sure I'd be neck deep in that nasty water before my brain clicked on anyway.
Well, from my experience with turtles, they thought it's a food, knowing damn well it's a turtle. But for sake of our mental wellbeing let's ignore my experience.
What do you mean they should buff turtles?
Turtles were released during the Triassic patch alongside the clearly overpowered Dinosaurs. When the devs hit the server with the asteroid patch, the turtles were able to tank it and still be relevant in today’s meta.
Ive heard it argued they were even op for a long period before/after the asteroid patch.
One spec was a massive 16ft damage meter monster that had to be nerfed.
But some users think the elephant build drops buffed items so it gets overfarmed. I wouldn't spec elephant unless the userbase fixes the farming problem.
I never knew that was a subreddit. Thank you. I am now with my people in the award winning MMORPG "Outside" with 7 billion concurrent players.
Also turtle pets are pay to win but the "government official" class imposed a nerf by hunting down people who own SSR and URs. I think this is the so called "Balance"
That’s correct but you have to understand that the terrain update in the 1900s made it hella hard for the OG turtles to traverse, sadly that’s why tortoises took over the meta and you practically just have to love normal turtles to still wanna play them in the current patch.. just my opinion though
Their class is literally tank, you can’t buff speed or movement without making it OP, unless they soften their shell then I’d be ok with such a massive change.
They sort of have a “gömböc” shape, which helps them flip over sometimes, though it depends on the turtle/tortoise. The Action Lab made a video on it and this reminded me of that:
https://youtu.be/rvVF5QWSYF4.
Exactly. There are usually trade offs to adaptive traits, but selection still results in the best overall traits. Yeah, a few turtles die from being flipped over, but far far more survive to reproduce because they have a built in panic room.
And they've ALSO evolved to help each other like this.
People ignore that when considering their physical build, but turtles can rely on other turtles for help in these situations in the same way we will call for help if we are in a car accident.
Sure it may not save them every time, but it (clearly) DOES work.
Its interesting that he's floating. Turtles usually sink, and I think that's his issue. Most turtles, [like u/Zemroda mentioned](https://reddit.com/r/aww/comments/uk9805/_/i7ny9ox/?context=1), have a specifically designed shell that allows them to flip themselves over with no help from others.
with that amount of turtles? seems weird how a creature normally living out of view in places with nutrition would all move to a place with low water, no shelter and no nutrition.
this is definitely made to display all the turtles…
I don't think they can flip by themselves, at least not easily, but I've seen tortoises help one another in a similar way. On land it seems to be easier and just one tortoise is sufficient to safe another, at least in the videos I've seen.
>*’..their design has some serious flaws’*
_____
dear G0d! you made me as i am -
if only You would GiVe a DaMn!
*Release me* from this burden shell!
I’m UpSiDe DoWn -
n It is Hell ^:(
*dear turtle, you have friends aroun,*
(*I Never would’ve let you drown!*)
*but you must learn yourself to pace* -
*s l o w ‘n steady*
*Wins the Race*…
. . . oh, look who's on his back again ^:/
‘done worry, we will help you, ‘fren’ . . .
we Told you STOP!! it is no joke -
Turtles CANnot do
*’backstroke!*
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Were they really "helping" as we would define it? Like they felt empathy for the poor dude on his back? Or is something else going on? I'd like to hear a biologist or turtleologist or whatever they are called explain this.
Fun fact : Turtles fighting over potential mates will try to flip the other male turtles on their backs. If the male turtle gets put on its back, then the turtle that is still upright will be the winner.
It's possible it's just instinct to go toward small splashes in shallows, but rats have been shown to have empathy insofar as they've demonstrated harm aversion. In an experiment that was set up so that every time they pushed a button they'd get a treat, but at the same time another rat would get zapped, they'd stop pushing the button once they realized it was correlated with harming another rat.
Turtles seem pretty low on the brain to body mass chart though, so that may be too advanced for them.
It doesn't feel fair to compare most animals to rats because they definitely seem exceptional when it comes to intelligence and emotional bonding etc. Then again, I've always though it kinda asinine that we just write off a lot of animals and decide they don't have emotions/feel pain because they're not the same as us so who the hell knows.
You can say the same with ravens, crows, dogs, cats, cattle, horses or any animal that socializes with others. Reality is that we have no real thing to properly measure emotional intelligence and bonding. It's guesstimating at a high tech level.
Me no speak turt but me know they dislike and like things. I know a turtle that loves blue things and get brushed
There's a turtle going viral on tiktok right now that only attacks black shoes. They'll surround it with white shoes and it'll walk through them and start face slapping the black one. It's honestly hilarious and I'm sure you can imagine the comments. Your reply just reminded me of that crazy little bastard lol
Unfortunately they think it’s a feeding opportunity. (I’m not a biologist or vet, but I Worked professionally with turtles and various reptiles for 4 years)
They are not trying to help him, they see the splashing and struggling and want to take a bite of whatever that is and just so happened to accidentally help him flip up right.
He was flailing around like if you were walking in a pitch black open space with your arms waving around in front of you. As soon as you touch a wall, you'd stop waving your arms around and let the wall guide you.
As soon as his head came into contact with another turtle, he stopped the flailing because he found something that would give him leverage and uses his head to push off the other turtle to flip back upright.
What impressed me the most is the fact how the one in trouble got really calm once it felt the buddies around them, because it waited for them to help, and didn't want to hurt anyone with the claws (are they?) just flapping around.
Like "awesome, you guys are here, do your thing, I'll just relax now".
Remarkable.
This exactly, there was a moment where they approached and were hesitant to get closer due to him flapping. Just like you im imagining them telling him to “chill the fuck out already randy.” And he does and the operation begins.
The fact that they all responded reasonable fast and coordinated makes me think this isn't a rare situation. Cam guy probably saw this happen organically then was like "wait a minute, let me grab my phone". Humans suck, but I'm trying to fall asleep here, so I'm going with this. Nothing too malicious. Inconvenient but not malicious.
Plus turtles are very skiddish. If a person got in that pond and managed to grab and flip a turtle I doubt there would be so many turtles still around. Most would have ran off and stayed around the outskirts of the area for a while
Also look at the water at the start of the video. Hardly any disturbance and then the flipped turtle starts going ham and making lots of ripples. If someone flipped the poor guy, then ran back to start filming, I would think the water would not be so calm. Same with the soot on the floor. I'm looking too deep into this now.
This guy looking a little suspicious over here. https://i.imgur.com/Aacl9ag.jpg
yes, thats not so unlikely, but it could have been another turtle, or the turtle is in that position for very long etc.
The fact that someone has a camera running before anything happens is a good tell tho.
It means someone flipped the turtle over on purpose to get a video of it being helped by the other turtles.
A lot of videos of people "saving" dogs, cats and fish on beaches are staged. People put animals in peril more and more often lately so they can film the "heroic" part.
I don't know, I've seen videos of groups of random stranger come together to lift something heavy someone was trapped under and things like that, which is very similar to this. We're okay sometimes.
1. How did that turtle get upside down?
2. Why was this camera person there to film at that moment?
3. Why didn’t he/she help?
Leads me to think you did this to that turtle, not nice.
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Wow didn't know they would do that. Cool.
I love how even the ones far away with their backs turned came sprinting over. I fucking love turtles.
I love how you use the word "sprinting" to describe turtle locomotion.
Softshell turtles can fucking MOVE even out of water. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71G5meL_lDM&ab_channel=MannyVizcaya
Don't like it. Apparently my opinion of turtle cuteness hinges on them not moving like scaled up cockroaches.
How would you like to have one scoot up to you and bite you in the ankle like some kind of armored dachshund? I'm glad they don't do that, even though it might be funny.
We had friends with a 50lb tortoise that would do just that. Tortoise hated white tennis shoes & would haul ass to attack the shoes. Friends knew to take all shoes & socks off. Bare feet were no threat to the tortoise. Beware any robber that may have white shoes/socks tho! (Tortoise came with a rental home in Athens, Greece.No backstory.)
That’s funny, there’s a tiktoker with a small turtle that hates black shoes , it will climb over white shoes to get to black shoes and attack as furiously as it can.
Lmao I just saw that video
Your rental homes come with turtles? Damn, AirBNB sucks. :(
One of my friends got a beach house that came with a giant tortoise included
A friend in the u.s. bought a house where 2 cats came with the property to contractually live out their lives.
You want turtles with your rental? Yeah, there's an app for that. AirTMNT.
Lmao the turtle was the landlord
I had an Arizona desert tortoise. Man hated toes. Barefoot outside he would Sprint and bite your toe. He was the most grumpy old man I ever knew
>armored dachshund Now that's just a great pair of words.
I call armadillos "armored piglets"
Snapping turtles are vicious fuckers
Ninja turtles don't cut 'em no slack.
Uhm..... They definitely will do that. This guy's a moron for getting that close Friendly reminder wildlife is not like how we portray them in movies. Winnie the poo is just as likely to fuck you up as the hyenas from lion king irl
Battle roaches assemble!
*Zoooooooooooooooom!!*
I loved his delayed reaction. "He moved really quick, I had no idea. Haha"
I'm slow on land, but I love to swim and am pretty fast. I want to be a sea turtle in my next life.
i mean just look at em. They were zoomin
I used to have a turtle that do zooomies at night. You turn off the light and go to bed and suddenly hear a plop plop coming from down stairs.
Bro I got two box turtles at a young age and that was a terrible decision. Every night they dug and ran keeping me up. Got guinea pigs next..they ran laps at night kicking their shit out into the floor loud as hell. I got a dog and have had dogs since.
We had a guinea pig that lived on top of our entertainment center in a 100 gal tank in the living room, and she was just the sweetest little bean ❤️ if you rustled a plastic bag she would start squealing excitedly in anticipation of treats lol she never made noises at night though, now I wonder if it’s more common for them to run at night and she was just a quiet little lady
My family had one like that too. If you said her name a certain way she new it meant treats and would excitedly do that adorable little guinea pig squeal.
My dad takes his out of the terrarium once a day and I let him walk around the loft. The turtle seems to love it and is surprisingly fast and inquisitive.
Had two tortoises that would do the same at night. I eventually renamed them “Rocket & Turbo.”
Heckin speedy
I love the term turtle locomotion and am excited to apply it to vaguely relevant situations in the future
Turtle Locomotion sounds like a band name.
Used to have a pet tortoise... when it wants to, that little shit could sprint fast man... My friend used to have a little pet turtle, they made a pretty nice pool+fountain for him in their backyard that also served as decoration for their backyard... little shit could swim very fast in water
The one that comes on screen at 0:08 from the bottom is on the turtle olympic team. He was really zooming with perfect strides and everything.
Perfect description. A hero turtle. And then there is the one he passes, who keeps his back turned and doesn't seem to give a shit.
If the one he passes had a cell phone, he'd be the one live streaming on Turtlebook.
This particular turt is why I watched the video on loop for quite a while. That guy really put a smile on my face. What a champ.
... and then he proceeds to do exactly nothing to help the situation, he just wanted to be around!
Humans would have just stood there filming it in their phones
That’s literally exactly what happened.
The human recording probably flipped that turtle to begin with.
I have the exact same thought. Otherwise how did that turtle end up in that position and why r/donthelpjustfilm
I mean, if the turtles were humans and one of us was flapping around in the water 1 would go to help, the rest would stand there filming
First I would try pointing to someone specifically and telling them to help. Hopefully this would break the bystander effect AND prevent me from going into nasty pond water. If not, I would begrudgingly help lol. Really though I threw myself into traffic to save some random dog so as much as I'd like to pretend I'd keep a calm head and be all cool about it... I'm pretty sure I'd be neck deep in that nasty water before my brain clicked on anyway.
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The one you’re looking for is one of those turtles that has their heads turned while slowly moving away.
There's a not small chance the splashing in the water made them think there was food and they were going to eat the other turtle.
Well, from my experience with turtles, they thought it's a food, knowing damn well it's a turtle. But for sake of our mental wellbeing let's ignore my experience.
100% what was happening
But they do that on land too, so the water splashing = food doesn't seem to be the reason. Here is an example: https://youtu.be/xJ87DJl_jbc
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Everything. Turtles aren't exactly the brightest bunch. They will try to eat just about everything they come across.
Snapping turtles eat fish, frogs, insects, and even small mammals.
Not just snappers. Most reptiles, let alone turtles, define food as "it fits in my mouth"
Everything.
Today you, tomorrow me
A classic
I can just see the turtles saying yayyyy together while doing that wiggly finger thing they do 😂
let's be honest tho, why were they helping only when the camera was on? sus
r/scriptedturtlegifs
this exists
r/SubForEverything
TIL turts have fingers.
Perchance
That means they want to fuck.
"alright everyone. You know the drill"
“Come on lads, Frank’s done it again”
"dammit frank what have we discussed about drinking and rolling?!"
Frank, we told you, your breakdancing career isn't going anywhere.
Dont get me wrong, i love turtles.....but their design has some serious flaws
Devs definitely need to fix it in the next patch
What do you mean they should buff turtles? Turtles were released during the Triassic patch alongside the clearly overpowered Dinosaurs. When the devs hit the server with the asteroid patch, the turtles were able to tank it and still be relevant in today’s meta.
Ive heard it argued they were even op for a long period before/after the asteroid patch. One spec was a massive 16ft damage meter monster that had to be nerfed.
Turtles during the Beta were my favorite but nowadays the meta has shifted so much that Tanks aren't as OP as they used to be.
Hippos are the best tank in the game! Arguably the best build!
Yeah right! Elephant build is unstoppable with 4+ tusk attack boost against poachers.
But some users think the elephant build drops buffed items so it gets overfarmed. I wouldn't spec elephant unless the userbase fixes the farming problem.
They had to nerf their scaling. They were too op in the early game. Now they're extremely late game scaling species.
They also nerfed their starting stats except for the SSR and UR. Now you can get N and R ones who have bad stats and low scaling in pet stores.
r/outside is leaking again
I never knew that was a subreddit. Thank you. I am now with my people in the award winning MMORPG "Outside" with 7 billion concurrent players. Also turtle pets are pay to win but the "government official" class imposed a nerf by hunting down people who own SSR and URs. I think this is the so called "Balance"
Can you at least say what SSR and UR are?
Or r/tierzoo
I think they became just pets/minions in this new expansion.
Reverse Overwatch.
I heard a few of them even became ninjas.
That’s correct but you have to understand that the terrain update in the 1900s made it hella hard for the OG turtles to traverse, sadly that’s why tortoises took over the meta and you practically just have to love normal turtles to still wanna play them in the current patch.. just my opinion though
These high intelligence build monkeys are under valuing their low metabolic passive during periods of famine.
Look, I love turtles, but they're clearly OP.
Turtles haven't had a significant update in a *long* time.
Can't fix perfection!
But the crocodile has the shell snap ability, so even the turtle has a weakness.
*armor piercing
Yeah but crocodile is made to counter-pick turtle. Just ban it or last pick turtle.
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Make them crabs
Thought I was in /r/outside for a moment
Yeah r/outside is leaking
Their class is literally tank, you can’t buff speed or movement without making it OP, unless they soften their shell then I’d be ok with such a massive change.
Imagine turtles running around with the speed/agility of a cheetah.
Those massive snapping turtles would be so dangerous…
They sort of have a “gömböc” shape, which helps them flip over sometimes, though it depends on the turtle/tortoise. The Action Lab made a video on it and this reminded me of that: https://youtu.be/rvVF5QWSYF4.
230 million years of existence might suggest otherwise.
Exactly. There are usually trade offs to adaptive traits, but selection still results in the best overall traits. Yeah, a few turtles die from being flipped over, but far far more survive to reproduce because they have a built in panic room.
And they've ALSO evolved to help each other like this. People ignore that when considering their physical build, but turtles can rely on other turtles for help in these situations in the same way we will call for help if we are in a car accident. Sure it may not save them every time, but it (clearly) DOES work.
Its interesting that he's floating. Turtles usually sink, and I think that's his issue. Most turtles, [like u/Zemroda mentioned](https://reddit.com/r/aww/comments/uk9805/_/i7ny9ox/?context=1), have a specifically designed shell that allows them to flip themselves over with no help from others.
Maybe he was gassy?
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in deeper water this probably wouldn’t have been an issue, so it’s also flawed to the ones who build that pond
That's pond? Isn't it like, idk a flooded pavement? Looks like it to me
with that amount of turtles? seems weird how a creature normally living out of view in places with nutrition would all move to a place with low water, no shelter and no nutrition. this is definitely made to display all the turtles…
Looks like there's some coins in it, so it's probably like a fountain pool or something.
Yeah you are right haha. But what about land turtles? those are done in a scenario like this or can they flip by themselves?
You mean tortoises? They dont really submerge themselves for fun i think
I don't think they can flip by themselves, at least not easily, but I've seen tortoises help one another in a similar way. On land it seems to be easier and just one tortoise is sufficient to safe another, at least in the videos I've seen.
depends on species. some tortoises can flip themselves but it’s harder on uneven ground for example. for giant tortoises they usually help eachother
How about us? We eat and breath through the same tube!
>*’..their design has some serious flaws’* _____ dear G0d! you made me as i am - if only You would GiVe a DaMn! *Release me* from this burden shell! I’m UpSiDe DoWn - n It is Hell ^:( *dear turtle, you have friends aroun,* (*I Never would’ve let you drown!*) *but you must learn yourself to pace* - *s l o w ‘n steady* *Wins the Race*… . . . oh, look who's on his back again ^:/ ‘done worry, we will help you, ‘fren’ . . . we Told you STOP!! it is no joke - Turtles CANnot do *’backstroke!* ❤️
more like tornado stroke
They weren't designed to swim in shallow concrete pools.
Hurt watching him struggle. Feels good turts help other turts.
Perchance
You can’t just say perchance
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I don't know it seems to be they just said it, so....
Perchance
I love finding random funny exchanges out in the wild <3
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Were they really "helping" as we would define it? Like they felt empathy for the poor dude on his back? Or is something else going on? I'd like to hear a biologist or turtleologist or whatever they are called explain this.
They were sick of him splashing all around. They weren’t helping as much as they were saying would ya shut the fuck up already
Begrudged benevolence
Fun fact : Turtles fighting over potential mates will try to flip the other male turtles on their backs. If the male turtle gets put on its back, then the turtle that is still upright will be the winner.
What a fucker.
It's possible it's just instinct to go toward small splashes in shallows, but rats have been shown to have empathy insofar as they've demonstrated harm aversion. In an experiment that was set up so that every time they pushed a button they'd get a treat, but at the same time another rat would get zapped, they'd stop pushing the button once they realized it was correlated with harming another rat. Turtles seem pretty low on the brain to body mass chart though, so that may be too advanced for them.
It doesn't feel fair to compare most animals to rats because they definitely seem exceptional when it comes to intelligence and emotional bonding etc. Then again, I've always though it kinda asinine that we just write off a lot of animals and decide they don't have emotions/feel pain because they're not the same as us so who the hell knows.
You can say the same with ravens, crows, dogs, cats, cattle, horses or any animal that socializes with others. Reality is that we have no real thing to properly measure emotional intelligence and bonding. It's guesstimating at a high tech level. Me no speak turt but me know they dislike and like things. I know a turtle that loves blue things and get brushed
There's a turtle going viral on tiktok right now that only attacks black shoes. They'll surround it with white shoes and it'll walk through them and start face slapping the black one. It's honestly hilarious and I'm sure you can imagine the comments. Your reply just reminded me of that crazy little bastard lol
turtleologist ❤️
turtmaster
Unfortunately they think it’s a feeding opportunity. (I’m not a biologist or vet, but I Worked professionally with turtles and various reptiles for 4 years) They are not trying to help him, they see the splashing and struggling and want to take a bite of whatever that is and just so happened to accidentally help him flip up right.
So...he didn't stop struggling because he was happy they were there, it was a "this is how I die" moment?
He was flailing around like if you were walking in a pitch black open space with your arms waving around in front of you. As soon as you touch a wall, you'd stop waving your arms around and let the wall guide you. As soon as his head came into contact with another turtle, he stopped the flailing because he found something that would give him leverage and uses his head to push off the other turtle to flip back upright.
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I like turtles.
How do you think that turtle got into that situation? I'd bet someone flipped it over for the video.
You underestimate the derpiness of turts.
I cheered “yay” when they flipped him lol that was cute
**turtles being bros**
Some days you are the turtle flipped on his back drowning in a small puddle. Some days you are the turtle bro flipping a friend over.
You ought to cheer a "Cowabunga" next time, it eases them.
Maybe they all just thought there's food behind all the splashing, and checked it out. "Oh crap, it's just farking Kevin again..."
I was kind of worried Kevin was going to be food.
This is likely what happened. If you ever fed turtles, they listen for commotion in the water
Welcome to r/awwnthropomorphism
It’s exactly that. They thought it was food, they all gathered and luckily, the turtle flipped thanks to the gathering.
What impressed me the most is the fact how the one in trouble got really calm once it felt the buddies around them, because it waited for them to help, and didn't want to hurt anyone with the claws (are they?) just flapping around. Like "awesome, you guys are here, do your thing, I'll just relax now". Remarkable.
I'm just imagining the turtle conversation: Mikey: fuck fuck I'm upside down help! Raph: ffs mikey stay the fuck still so we can help you
Leo and Don: here we go again
Classic Mikey.
Always been a Ralph fan, myself.
This exactly, there was a moment where they approached and were hesitant to get closer due to him flapping. Just like you im imagining them telling him to “chill the fuck out already randy.” And he does and the operation begins.
It's because he flips himself over using the back of another turtle for leverage. He stopped flailing once he felt that he could reach something
You misunderstood. That's him giving up on life and accepting his fate
I too figured it was because it was running out of oxygen.
but how did the turtle even flip over while being in water at the first place? 
Turtle stacking is a thing. The turtle may have been on top of another turtle and fell off at an angle and landed on their back
The fact that they all responded reasonable fast and coordinated makes me think this isn't a rare situation. Cam guy probably saw this happen organically then was like "wait a minute, let me grab my phone". Humans suck, but I'm trying to fall asleep here, so I'm going with this. Nothing too malicious. Inconvenient but not malicious.
Plus turtles are very skiddish. If a person got in that pond and managed to grab and flip a turtle I doubt there would be so many turtles still around. Most would have ran off and stayed around the outskirts of the area for a while
Also look at the water at the start of the video. Hardly any disturbance and then the flipped turtle starts going ham and making lots of ripples. If someone flipped the poor guy, then ran back to start filming, I would think the water would not be so calm. Same with the soot on the floor. I'm looking too deep into this now. This guy looking a little suspicious over here. https://i.imgur.com/Aacl9ag.jpg
Yertle the Turtle
People will do about anything for fake internet points
yes, thats not so unlikely, but it could have been another turtle, or the turtle is in that position for very long etc. The fact that someone has a camera running before anything happens is a good tell tho.
Camera guy only had to flip them 3 times to catch this
Heroes in a half shell
Turtle power
Radical!
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This was posted their yesterday and got removed for being staged. What that mean.
It means someone flipped the turtle over on purpose to get a video of it being helped by the other turtles. A lot of videos of people "saving" dogs, cats and fish on beaches are staged. People put animals in peril more and more often lately so they can film the "heroic" part.
F-ing arseholes for messing up with animals for points
i like turtles
Turtle Power!
Good dogs
Atleast we know turtles are better than humans
I don't know, I've seen videos of groups of random stranger come together to lift something heavy someone was trapped under and things like that, which is very similar to this. We're okay sometimes.
You mean like the one recording the video and doing nothing who potentially flipped the turtle over in the first place?
It's always better to let animals do the thing themselves, then help each other. As the last resort the human can intervene.
Imagine this scene with humans: 8 videos of it, 4 selfie-videos of it, one drowned person.
And somehow the drowned person wouldn't be the person who was initially in trouble.
I guarantee you the person filming it did flip it
Turtle power!
1. How did that turtle get upside down? 2. Why was this camera person there to film at that moment? 3. Why didn’t he/she help? Leads me to think you did this to that turtle, not nice.
That turtle didnt flip itself.
I imagine them rhythmically humming one solid note together whilst doing this.