Baby Turtles Hatch And Face A Perilous Race To The Ocean | VR 360 | Seven Worlds, One Planet

[Music] you're on a desert island beach in the Caribbean look around beneath you there our noses poking out of the sand these are leatherback sea turtle hatchlings the largest species of turtle alive today their mother nested here around sixty days ago but today they'll see in the world for the very first time moving on soft sand is slow going particularly for a small turtle so we sped up time just a little bit [Music] this nest may hold up to 80 hatchlings that right now are around 10 centimeters long a weightless model than a golf ball but one day they could exceed 500 kilograms and be the biggest turtles on earth each one must make it to the sea where they may live to be 70 years old [Music] down at the water's edge hatchlings are taking the first swim [Music] most of them seem to know where they're going while others aren't so sure [Music] these turtles face an estimated 1 in a thousand chance of reaching adulthood [Music] on the research team at Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge do everything they can to improve these odds genetic testing and round-the-clock surveys means every hatchling is accounted for and is part of the longest-running leatherback study anywhere in the world [Music] in around 15 years time if they're very lucky one of these hatchlings may just come back to these beaches to lay eggs on her own [Music] you [Music]

Channel: BBC Earth

Views: 436,894

Rating: 4.8093948 out of 5

Keywords: bbc documentary, bbc, bbcearth, bbc earth, baby turtles hatching, leatherback turtle, baby turtles, baby turtles hatching and going to sea, baby turtles going to sea, baby turtles being born, turtle rescue, baby turtle release, vr 360 turtle hatching, vr 360, virutal reality animals, animals in vr 360

Id: AkGnPl0QL6o

Length: 4min 3sec (243 seconds)

Published: Tue May 05 2020

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