How Baby Sea Turtles Find Their Way Home
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Special thanks to Dr. Donna Shaver and the Padre Island National Seashore Division of Sea Turtle Science and Recovery for having us!
Andrés Herrera film courtesy of Dr. Thane Wibbels - University of Alabama at Birmingham
References/Learn More:
Bevan, E., et al. "Estimating the historic size and current status of the Kemp's ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) population." Ecosphere 7.3 (2016).
Johnsen, Sönke, and Kenneth J. Lohmann. "The physics and neurobiology of magnetoreception." Nature Reviews Neuroscience 6.9 (2005): 703-712.
Lohmann, Kenneth J., Nathan F. Putman, and Catherine MF Lohmann. "Geomagnetic imprinting: a unifying hypothesis of long-distance natal homing in salmon and sea turtles." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences105.49 (2008): 19096-19101.
Lohmann, Kenneth, and Catherine Lohmann. "Detection of magnetic inclination angle by sea turtles: a possible mechanism for determining latitude." Journal of Experimental Biology 194.1 (1994): 23-32.
Putman, Nathan F., et al. "Evidence for geomagnetic imprinting as a homing mechanism in Pacific salmon." Current Biology 23.4 (2013): 312-316.
Shaver, Donna J., and Charles W. Caillouet Jr. "Reintroduction of Kemp's ridley (Lepidochelys kempii) sea turtle to Padre Island National Seashore, Texas and its connection to head-starting." Herpetological Conservation and Biology 10.1 (2015): 378-435.
Ueda, H. "Physiological mechanisms of imprinting and homing migration in Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp." Journal of fish biology 81.2 (2012): 543-558.
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Bro, I can't even remember where I left my keys earlier today.
Yea me too but i dont remember were is my house
Yea me too but I don't remember where my school was
Yea, I know right, but I can't find my dad
Man that sucks! ✊
Why does this comment feel like it is in 2024
One of the coolest things I've ever seen was a place called "Turtle Beach" in St. Lucia. Every year, dozens to hundreds of volunteers work at the beach for a few days to protect turtle hatchlings and help them reach the ocean. They stand guard to prevent poachers and predators from killing the turtles or eggs, and sometimes even carry the babies to the water. People can be pretty awful and destructive most of the time, but there is still some good in the world.
10 years ago I was sitting in the same chair I am sitting in today
That's kind of sad, man.
10 years ago i was 7 lol
Lol
Same. I'm 28 lol
10 years ago I was -1
"It's awesome, Jellyman. Little dudes are just eggs, we leave 'em on the beach to hatch, and then koo-koo ka-choo! They find their way back to the Big Ol' Blue." - Crush, Finding Nemo
It's Okay To Be Smart Eternally first, aren't you?
+MrAntieMatter well, it IS my channel :)
It's a good thing too.
Ok Mr. It's Okay To Be Smart
It's good that it's your channel. We wouldn't have it any other way.
This was a roller coaster of feeling good and bad about humanity
Phew at first I was like "did I click on the wrong video?"
Sometimes I feel like humans are just being assholes to animals
yum
sometimes?
More like 48/7.
Maybe because humans are just animals too? Eons of evolution have taught animals to be assholes to other animals. Extending the compassion circle to include other species is relatively new. For most of the past, feeling bad about causing harm to different organisms would have decreased fitness. Perhaps Joe will do a vid about the history of interspecies compassion some day :D
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sometimes i feel like human beings are just assholes period.
I guess you could say those poachers were "shell"fish....eh? eh? cause turtles have shells and those poachers were...nevermind I'll show myself out.
They are drug addicts most of the time
Does that make those turtle eggs poached eggs?
Dumb joke
blitzwaffe XD
Ohhhh I get Haha. Yeah that wasnt funny
too bad i can only "thumbs up" this video, and not "heart" it :(
Thank you volunteers for helping these beautiful turtles.....
What a wonderful visualization of the Earth's shifting magnetic fields. Seeing the compass on its side was illuminating. And TURTLES BABY TURTLES ZOMG
LoL @deeplook no one like your comment even @its okay to be smart didn't heart this
❤️@deeplook
Exactly 10 years ago, I was in my old home, playing with toys in my room.
Hope they don't go extinct
they prob wont
They will, most species will later become extinct.
Same, they are super cute!
I think you got your own problems with Sheriff Cheeks on you and your buddy Pinhead Larry's tails...
@@MikhaelAhava Not most species, but all species, will eventually become extinct. Ive always thought it a bit interesting how many people seem to believe that every species that goes extinct, is because of people. Yes, people have caused a lot more species to go extinct than most other species tend to do. But in reality, animals have always gone extinct, over time. One species will kill off another, or cause the demise of multiple other species. But we, as the human race, are the only species, that has gone out of their way to try and preserve other species, and to help protect them from extinction.
On that note, with the way things are going now, and how conscious we have become, about the affect we have on the planet and wildlife, I think the turtles have a pretty good chance of rebuilding their population. There is a fair chance that the sea turtles wont go extinct for at least another few hundred years. No telling what the world will be like by then, or the people.
I couldn't finish watching this after I saw those people taking all those poor eggs.., EVIL!!
How is it evil?
For real how they moved them to a different location
We belong to the worst species ever :(
@@joemasters2270 true, but I am part of a secret spices in the human species giving me superpower, love, speed, etc.
All u have to do is like this comment and u are part of this amazing species
people are invasive species lmao
in the video he even mentioned that people also ate the adult turtles 4:20
Cuteness overload in this video, also I'd like to thank you for adding english subtitles to your videos, they are very helpful for me, as I'm not an english native speaker.
Ja polak
"Can you remember where you were exactly 10 years ago"
*Struggles for five minutes trying to figure out when 10 years ago was so he can continue trying to figure out where he was*
Yep. Me.
Yes i can because i've stayed in the same spot in 10 years.
your mom's basement?
I mean the solar system itself is rotating around the universe so technically no you been moving
@@Kalossupremacy3356 This is oddly uplifting
Bravest little troopers ever - they were just born & they have to deal w/ seagulls & other predators. They're just trying to get to the ocean
😊
not to mention being surrounded by these big, fleshy creatures going 'awwww!' and 'they're so cute!!!'
they don't know what the hell we are. no wonder they're going fast as they can.
they're probably terrified.
strangely, I do remember where exactly I was 10 years ago.
10 years ago at this exact day and time, I was exactly where I am right now: in bed ^_^
I am 10 and he said remember where I was 10 years ago
Me: my moms stomach
Never underestimate a few determined good people out to do something amazing. For instance, save an entire species, cuz that's what you do when your an animal lover. :)
i love turtles
After that😂
@@alulurajan It's been four years. Excuse past me's lack of brain, I have not improved.
@@McLegg 😅😂
@@McLegg I like humans they look so cute when they give babies
Seeing as exactly 10 years ago from this moment I was asleep in my childhood home, I could probably get back there no prob.
We helped some turtles out one time. There was this one who would always nest in our driveway (gravel) but the eggs would be eaten before they’d hatch (had a fox problem, maybe that was the cause).
So after 2 years of checking on them, only to find that they’ve been eaten, we decided to put a bit extra gravel on them and check them every day (to make it harder to get to them and to try and deter any animals who want a quick snack). Also, the fox problem was getting better in that area.
One day, my dad saw one crawling into the garage, so he called me and my mom outside and we got a cardboard box, a rock, some leaves and some water (we had absolutely no clue on how to help these little guys at first). In the end I think there was about a dozen with one dying from not being able to break out of his shell (we tried to encourage him, but he was too weak to even try by that time). We determined they were fresh water snapping turtles, and therefore, couldn’t keep one (much to the dismay of 11 year old me. But we probably shouldn’t have either way because we didn’t have the proper facilities immediately (would’ve had to make a run to the pet store)). After about an hour, they were quite strong and we threatening to nip our fingers, so we took the box down to the lake behind our house (we had a little beach), removed to rock and bowl of water, carefully tipped the box, and encouraged them to crawl out. It took about 10 minutes for the last to leave (we treated them too well I guess) and then we went inside, hoping that was the right thing to do and that they were strong enough to survive in there. We also pondered how likely it was that one of them would run into their mother- not very.
No turtles returned the next year and them we moved.
I’m not sure if that was the right thing to do, I hope it was though. We just wanted to save some babies from getting eaten by a fox, raccoon, snake (mainly rattlers) or birds. Hope at least one survived!
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one probably did.
might even remember you.
who knows?
💙💙💙
Hey, I live an hour away from South Padre Island! The nesting is still continuing, and everytime the turtles lay eggs, they block off that part of the beach. When it's time for the baby turtles to go into the sea, everyone gathers around and cheers for them.
10yrs ago I would have been at home this time of year and time of day... I can get to my mother's house lol
0:30 Actually, I know where I was 10 years ago. Not going to say it for Internet reasons.
Happens to be my birthday today... so I actually do remember exactly where I was when I turned 6 years old.
Could I find my way back to the place I was ten years ago? Yes. Yes I can. It's literally just across town.
I could remember where I was 10 years ago at this exact date as it's my birthday lol
Him: Where were you 10 years ago?
Me: I don't know, I was 4
I meant 3 sorry
While I can’t even remember my own aunt after 10 months
That is the second cutest thing I have seen today, the first being a show on channel 4 about puppies. Although I did enjoy the references to the Ninja Turtles, the heroes in a half shell rock! Sea turtles deserve their population to be back up to a sufficient level, they are awesome for laying in the same beaches every year.
This date 10 years ago I was probably in my bed in the same house that I am in right now and considering I was 9 years old, probably still awake at that point.
exactly 10 years ago I was about 2 meters from where I am now. So yeah, I can find my way back to there.
We humans devote far less of our mental capacity to pathfinding since the invention of maps, and in modern America even less now that 1) nearly everything we need is available by delivery, 2) most destinations are reached through driving or public transport and 3) navigators are available in almost every pathfinding opportunity. I wonder then if we would have closer to a turtle's level of memory in the times before maps.
Awwww look how CUTE they are 😂👍🏻
that was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen
10 years ago i was 5 and in the same house so yeah I can find my way back to the same place
yes, i was a my house 10 years ago sleeping at the moment, i can find the spot i slept in 10 years ago pretty easily :D
10 years ago I was in 5th grade and in Mr. Montgomery's class going through my spelling list for the week. BAM.
Bro 10 years ago I was laying in this same bed in this same beat up apartment. So yeah, I can find my way because I'm already here
I LOVE sea turtles I researched them in second and third grade, And I'm still researching them!
"Could find where you were 10 years ago. Where you were that exact day?"
Me: I'm right here, in my brother's room. I'm 13 and this is where I was, when looking at him as a few days old baby.
What is the purpose of the flags some of the volunteers are holding in the water? I thought they might be for visually orienting the turtles, but it seems like the ocean would be enough of a visual. My other thought was that they act like scarecrows for birds that might harm the turtles?
Yep, those are to scare away the seagulls who would like to make snacks out of the baby turtles
They are starving seagulls? It's their natural right to eat some of those turtles.
Aww Protecting the turtle :)
Not when its done in a manner that they become extinct.
well i don't think that seagulls are endangered like the turtles are, so until the turtle have amassed a large enough population, they'll probably keep standing their with the flags. and besides, there are hundreds of other places they can get food. like stealing food from humans who are eating on the beach...
Looks like Joe just hit the 7 digit number (million) subscriber milestone!
Ten years ago I wasn't even alive.
Love the Bugs Bunny reference at 2:44
that's so cool, I did a project on them in high school. Never knew how they find their way back. who knew?
A more interesting question is how do they time it so perfectly to arrive within 48 hrs or less of each other
I'm speechless, except for this: :D
00:23 Yes, I was in my mom's womb I stayed there for 2 years and 2 days before popping out in 2011
10 years ago
in my home playing dollies.
I got home and clicked this SO FAST. Was not disappointed. First line was right though--this episode IS about something very important!
Miss Lee's 3rd grade class loved learning about sea turtles and their instincts! "They're so cute" !
I've been to SOUTH Padre Island. Didn't realize there was a Padre Island also.
LOL South Padre Island is just the south end of Padre Island :) This turtle program is on the north end, near Corpus Christi
Ah, I see.
It's Okay To Be Smart
There's a larger a Kemps Ridley turtle rescue and release center in South Padre, just fyi. I've volunteered there
+Josiah Sandefur also, RIP Turtle Lady of SPI
I'm surprised that these turtles can survive the annual influx of spring breakers to the island.
Awesome, had no idea this video would mention Sea Turtle Inc. I love going there and visiting their rehabilitation center. Its amazing, they also allow the public to see the baby sea turtles nesting sites when they hatch and make their way into the ocean.
I want to write a story about a mafia turtle and call it "Shelldon" xD
Seeing as it's almost 1AM on not a holiday, and I was ten at the time, I can almost guarantee I was in this exact same spot ten years ago. My bed. Same room, same house.
They can't remember where they were any given random day, they remember a very important specific day. I could tell you where I was on my birthday for example... although not 10 years ago, as I was too young to have a good memory of it. I'd have to ask my mum.
Life finds a way back to their home
Ten years ago? Yeah, I was right there watching youtube videos on the internet.
Probably.
congrats on a million subscribers!
Not yeeeet.
Zani Not yet, pretty close tho
Quiero ver algo de Halloween
damn it. now i keep refreshing the page to see if the number rises XD
haha people from 4 years ago, Now he has about 3.7 million subscribers
Thanks bro this video made me smile the whole way through!!!!
Even when he talked about their near-extinction and the oil spill? You monster...
10 years ago, kindergarten, ms. goodwins class, eulas texas. *slaps hand on table* try me
Lyon leo The lion In hospital getting my left kidney removed. Remember it pretty good aswell
Room C113, CREST Building PVHS, Mr. Howardell's Intro to Engin. Design class, middle table, far side from door, 2nd seat from front.
Woops, that's 6 years, not 10. lol. Ms Powell's 5th grade class, DTES.
Goodwine like your life
ZeWildAlice i expect you to do hypnosis to find out
Every time you said Ridley, a giant purple dragon comes to mind
Although this is a case of parallel creation, a couple of weeks ago I made a video on this topic with Virginia Schutte. ;)
Gorgeous and adorable turtle footage Joe! :)
Thanks for pointing me to your video! It's really great. I'm gonna share it on Twitter!
Ahhh thank you!! :)
It was lots of fun to put together, and being able to watch the science cute turtles doing their thing is always time well spent!
By the way - early congratulations on the almost million subscribers! ;)
Draw Curiosity & It's okay to be smart, love you guys
Draw Curiosity my big brother says my poo goes to the ocean, so now I poo in the yard.
So are you! :) I think it's good taste in Science RUclips :p
I'm 9 so I was I my mother's "you know where"
Up her ass?
Where? I'm 28. Idk where babies come from.
In their womb not ass
@@Kunal20000 no you get them at Walmart.
@@Damnnthatscrazy cheaper if you order them
Actually i'm sitting where i was 10 years ago right this moment. I was 10, and i was (99% sure) asleep on my bed. And now I'm sitting on the same bed watching this.
where ever there is a turtle i am there in spirit giving it a thumbs up for its good work
Where I was 10 years ago exactly: my favorite couch spot
Where I am: my favorite couch spot
How do I know: I never left my favorite couch spot in 10 years
Damn, Mother Nature.. you crazy!!
Watching at 1:30 am on a weekday, so it would be safe to assume I'd be in bed sleeping. So go back 10 years I'd be living in my parent's house. So yeah would be pretty easy to find my way back.
“Ridley sea turtles are the most endangered sea turtles in the world”
Soft shell sea turtles: “Am I a joke to you?”
The turtle at the end got totally wiped out by that wave XD
These turtles know se wae
w00t! National Park Service, represent!
just be like "Where were you ten years ago??"And i'M Just looking at the screen like "In the hospital being born"
10 years ago i was in my mother's room watching tv with her
You know I may be dyslexic because I somehow managed to read the thumbnail as "Tom Brady's turtle finds home," and I was like "damn this looks like something I want to watch" So I clicked, and was disappointed when I found out Tom Brady doesn't own a turtle and he didn't find his/her home.. But I still feel very informed and I'm happy I clicked because now I know how baby turtles find their way home. So yeah
Those turtles look delicious.
Anybody ever had turtle soup???
SEA TURTLES ARE SO CUTE AHHHH
This = Deep Look episode version 2. lol, luv ur vids :D
Love sea turtles, I have one tattooed on my calf.
0:18
The guy: where were you 10 years ago?
Me: um... I’m nine. So let’s say I wasn’t born?
Art By Bunny your 10 now, tell me where we're you
Comrade Ryan hmmmm I was seven months old so... I’m not sure tbh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I could find my way back to my middle school parking lot.
This video is the cutest video in the channel in my opinion! XD
Well given the fact that 10 years ago I was 8 years old, I'm pretty sure I was in my bed back home at this time! XD
All the luck to Padre Island National Seashore! It's possible to save them from extinction, the TAMAR Project has had great success here in Brazil and is already working to protect other sea life too.
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So what you are saying is, even turtles know the world if round.
Ten years ago I was one, I was probably at home crying
first eggs, then very cute babies and a few years cute. wow but how
Upon realizing that I'm in the same place I was 10 years ago, I too have the desire to race into the ocean
10 years ago? Yeah. Just gotta go down a couple flights of stairs. And boom. (Used to live in these apts for a few years in 2011
I know where I was 10 years ago to the second i was 6 years old sleeping in my bed where I am currently typeing this
0:30 i don't remember because this exact moment 10 years ago I was having a nap in my old house, how could i remember anything from a dream? I never even remember my dream last night
as soon as I saw this video I grabbed my tortoise and was like finally
Great going on field science! First time I heard about this geomagnetic imprinting. Cheers to life!
It’s physically impossible for me to remember what I was doing exactly 10 years ago to this day. That’s because it’s my 10th birthday.
Maybe this is how pigeons find their way home since they go long places