Support NeoGAF

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Stunning footage has captured up to 64,000 turtles bobbing about in the ocean together.

Researchers at Raine Island, the world’s largest green turtle rookery on the Great Barrier Reef, used a drone to count how many green turtles were in the area.
The vision, captured in December last year, shows the turtles waiting to come ashore and lay clutches of eggs.

Source

They used to attempt to observe this by manually tracking and counting, now they use biodegradable paint and drone image recognition.

 

[Doom85]

 

[Xaero Gravity]

They're protesting too?

 

[Thurible]

Good, turtles are such beautiful creatures. It is a shame that many species of turtles are threatened.

 

[Tesseract]

 

[triplestation]

i hope that thing crawled out alive

 

[Rentahamster]

Damn, that's harsh. RIP

 

[Rat Rage]

Cowabunga, motherfuckers!

 

[Smiles and Cries]

them boots aren't made for swimming RIP little dude

 

[SometimeLaterToday]

 

[008]

Those are beautiful photos OP. Thanks for sharing

 

[Super Mario]

A beautiful sight with beautiful creatures.

I do wonder how 64,000 gathering in one location to make more babies makes you endangered. Are we pushing the straw thing today?

 

[-YFC-]

I hope they had sex ed. Safe sex and all.

 

[008]

A beautiful sight with beautiful creatures.

I do wonder how 64,000 gathering in one location to make more babies makes you endangered. Are we pushing the straw thing today?

we should push it today and every day. Also, plastic bags as sea turtles eat jelly fish and mistake them.

keep that shit out of the waters along with other trash.

they’re beautiful creatures, let’s keep them around.

 

[J-Roderton]

Neat!

 

[Alter_Fridge]

Is there really that many turtles?

That's the $64,000 question

 

[alife]