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| Bad news for leather back sea turtle; it's a local news | |
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| Topic Started: Aug 26 2013, 06:12 AM (705 Views) | |
| Bill | Aug 26 2013, 06:12 AM Post #1 |
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i read an article in a local newspaper today, and i was very sad:
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| Militant | Aug 26 2013, 07:04 AM Post #2 |
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Aw, man. That's sad. I really hope to see some other means of saving them.
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Aug 26 2013, 07:37 AM Post #3 |
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Do we have none in captivity or no way of tracking them so we could try and set up some kind of breeding system? ): |
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| Mathius Tyra | Aug 26 2013, 09:44 AM Post #4 |
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life
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The life of this turtle is too secret due the lifestyle of living in deep pelagic. So, I doubt that we can raise some in captivity. ![]() So sad about the news... Edited by Mathius Tyra, Aug 26 2013, 09:45 AM.
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| Cat | Aug 26 2013, 12:27 PM Post #5 |
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Poor turtles. This is sad.
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| Bill | Aug 28 2013, 10:47 AM Post #6 |
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The mother turtle was a very impressive speciement as well. It reached the lenghth of over 2 meters and weight up to 400 kilos! But here in vietnam we dont have the capability to make a good enough surrounding to keep it in captivity. So she was released back to the sea |
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| Furka | Aug 28 2013, 11:43 AM Post #7 |
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i doubt leatherbacks can survive in captivity, so releasing it was the best thing to do. |
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Aug 28 2013, 12:01 PM Post #8 |
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The leatherback sea turtle can also be found here off the coast of Canada. They ought to start digging up the eggs & hatching them in captivity. Only one out of something like a thousand turtles ever survives, so if all the turtles could be raised to at least a juvenile age in captivity then imagine how much the population would increase. |
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| Deleted User | Aug 28 2013, 01:34 PM Post #9 |
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On the bright side, it looks like the people in the area took the right attitude about the turtles and were excited to help this female lay her eggs, even providing protection for them in the hopes that they'd hatch. That's progress, right? |
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| OwlParrot | Aug 29 2013, 01:54 AM Post #10 |
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Well that's sad I guess it's good what the people did about it |
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Feb 16 2014, 01:34 PM Post #11 |
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For an omnivorous nation, it's a progress indeed. But their native animal populations keep declining because of humans' insatiability. And if the officials didn't know about the turtle it would surely be secretly eaten, together with eggs. Elephas Don't Bump old Topics. Edited by Furka, Feb 16 2014, 01:44 PM.
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