Sea Turtles (HD) | JONATHAN BIRD'S BLUE WORLD
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ธ.ค. 2015
- In Malaysia there is an island known for more sea turtles than virtually anywhere on Earth. Jonathan visits this amazing ecosystem to learn about the life cycle of sea turtles. He is surprised to discover an amazingly complex and competitive environment.
This is an HD upload of a previously released segment.
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We head out towards the reefs of Sipadan island. This island is so small that you can walk all the way around it on the beach in an hour. Yet, it has a huge population of sea turtles.
As the school of fish swims away, I spot my first sea turtle-a Green sea turtle swimming over the reef. It wasn’t hard because they’re everywhere. Some are swimming around, while others are napping on and in the reef. Sea turtles actually sleep underwater while holding their breath. A sea turtle can easily hold its breath over an hour!
A few hundred feet away, I find a Hawksbill sea turtle munching on the reef.
She is plucking out tasty sponges and invertebrates that hide in the coral, rather than eat the coral itself. It takes a tough stomach to digest this stuff.
As we circle the island, I can see the tracks left in the sand by females that have climbed the beach to lay their eggs.
It all starts when a male, identified by his long tail, catches up with a cooperative female and courts her.
From the surface, I see the action and I prepare to film it.
The mating has begun, and I quietly approach to film the action.
Mating is not easy for the female sea turtle. She must swim-and rise to breathe-for both of them.
The male's long tail holds the female and fertilizes the eggs, while claws on his front flippers give him the ability to grasp the female's shell.
The commotion doesn't go unnoticed by other males in the area. They flock to the mating pair, which have drifted away from the reef.
Eventually, no less than four additional male turtles arrive to challenge the suitor.
They all try the same techniques and it is starting to wear him down. Meanwhile the female is near exhaustion. The male is only struggling to hold on….the female is struggling to survive.
Hours later, the male has outlasted his rivals. He fertilizes the female's eggs and with luck his genes will continue on.
As if her job weren't hard enough already, the female now faces another tremendous task--to lay the eggs-but it must wait until nightfall.
After the sun sets, I head to the beach in total darkness.
The females come ashore and lay their eggs in the sand.
I have found a turtle hauling herself out of the water, painstakingly clawing her way up the beach to high ground. Although sea turtles live their entire lives in the ocean, they lay their eggs in a nest on the beach.
After the sea turtle reaches an area well above the high tide line, she begins to throw sand around to create a pit.
She's out of her element and vulnerable. The slightest sound or light would frighten her back into the water.
She must stop frequently to catch her breath. Her crushing weight on land literally asphyxiates her.
She begins to dig a hole about 3 feet deep with her rear flippers. The hole doesn't just protect the eggs from predators. The sex of the baby turtles is a function of the incubation temperature. A shallow nest baking in the sun will be too warm and all the babies will be female. A deep one will be too cold and the babies will all be male. Digging to the right depth insures a good mix of males and females.
At last she begins to lay as many as 100 squishy eggs about the size of ping pong balls into the nest. In 2 months, these eggs will hatch and the baby turtles will emerge.
After she has finished laying her eggs, she carefully fills in the hole.
Then she cleverly disguises the exact location of the nest by flinging some sand around.
After two hours of effort, she plods her way laboriously back to the sea, completely exhausted.
Two months later, newly hatched sea turtles race to the sea. Each baby turtle must rush past a gauntlet of predators from land, sky and sea to reach the open ocean. Odds are, only one of these baby sea turtles will survive.
On their journey, the sea turtles must fight their way through the surf, swim across the shallows and then make their way to the open ocean, away from predators on the reef. They won’t return to their home on the reef until they are large enough to be safe-about the size of a dinner plate.
It’s a long and perilous journey but if this sea turtle survives, it may go on to live over a hundred years.
Sea turtles are such a wonderful animals, as a Malaysian, thank you for taking a dive in my country, Malaysia!
What magnificent creatures! Mother nature truly deserves our total respect. Thanks for this video, Jonathan and team. In HD looks stunning.
And now they are dying because of our plastics
We must protect these beautiful animals
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Do something to help protect them then, a TH-cam comment doesn’t do much
l agree with you.
people asking you to do something RATHER then comment on things are insane.
if every person wasnt drowning in fictitious debt we'd all be out there doing what humans naturally love to do. every single person is a benched hero by money.
Exactly!
5:05 Squirtle use Bite!
5:14 Great now use Bubblebeam, Squirtle!
5:25 Now let's finish 'em off with Skull Bash!
Its ok he will evolve soon and will be able to use hydropump 😂😂😂
@@supernaturalarch666 That's what the other male is doing.
"awww look at all the babies"
"Odds are only one of these baby sea turtles will survive"
oh.
Not one maybe some or maybe all of them also they r soooooooooooo!!! Cute!!!!!
Slowest hey the cameras scared away the birds that would have taken them right off the beach, so they have a higher chance
Nate Marinate i want to take them all to my house!! when they are big enough ill bring them back to the sea
Btw did anyone see the ppl that kills and poison the crown of thorns sea stars the worst thing we are eating their predators so they are destroying corral reefs
Slowest I
its amazing how the babies know to go out to sea and are independent from birth
Yes and they are banished from the reef until they are the size of a dinner plate. Harsh.
I dont even remember what I was talking about. But sounds good :))
That's the beauty of nature.
God is amazing. Seems he made some mistakes when it came to mankind.
I wonder how the baby turtles’ know where to go from birth
The Air Bubble attack
Lol aww yeah
Lmao
I Love Sea Turtles
Their Are My Favorite Animals, ❤🐢
When I Grow Up, I Will Rescue Them From Their Extinction
It was incredible... Everything is just perfect in nature 😃
God bless the sea turtles in the world!
Your videos are very relaxing, love seeing them in my feed when I feel stressed or anxious. Waiting patiently for more sharks!
+Snarptusk Yeah me too, they are usually on my sub box by the time i wake up and it's very relaxing to watch them in the morning, i'm not a huge fan of sea creatures but this videos are very interesting.
Snarptusk same actually
Your right very relaxing video ☝☝☝remember
Snarptusk so true😊
Jonathan ''the ICON'' Bird‼️®™️ ☑️☑️
It’s so nice to see these turtles alive an free with out fishing nets attached to them an barricades on them ,they are beautiful animals
I am from Malaysia, and I really proud about it. Thank you! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
The babies are so cute !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's true in Malaysia there are lots of Sea Turtles. I know this because I'm from Malaysia. Last year, I learned about sea creatures. There are at least 4 different species of sea turtles. Anyway, I hope you liked Malaysia, Jonathan!
❤️
Everytime I go on vacation to Hawaii I see so many see turtles in the water and laying in the sand no matter what island. I love them so much
absolutely astounding footage‼️®™️ 👏👏
Glad you enjoyed it!
God makes all of us brave and strong to protect and help these Sea turtles.
Thank you for a vivid footage of HD resolution.
This is the first Jonathon Bird Blue video I have ever watched. This comment I'm posting is wayyyyyy after I've watched almost every video posted by this channel. Jonathon, thank you soooo much for making these videos, inspiring people, and motivating me for my marine biology career choice. Sea turtles are my favorite animals, and we must protect these angels who came down from heaven.
I hope u know I'm probably one of your BIGGEST fans EVER!!!!!!! :) :)
Wow, thank you!
We had a great time, Aloha from Honolulu, Hawaii byways of Waikiki
Happy World Sea Turtle Day!
Thanks a lot for your hard work. Respect to everyone who protect nature.
Sea turtles are the butterflies of the sea. Going forward but always, in the moment!
Happy World sea turtle day!
That's sad we should definitely try and help these beautiful creatures to survive.
WOW! I mean… I thought I was lucky to see 2 turtles within 8 foot of each other, but you caught them doing the dirty. And more showed up, amazing footage.
Soooo much love for sea turtles and this channel! Thank you!
is it me only? I felt I'm also there with them and at the same time I learned new stuff about blue world. I love this show
How have I never seen this video?! Such an amazing animals, I would love to see these animals ones.
Ahhh .. I don't know but my heart is breaking while watching her digging up that hole. I wanna help her 😭
Don't worry, she is very good at it!
Happy World Turtle Day! 🏖🐢
Oh Dios mio! Es tan bonito, tan hermoso, es una bendición, un milagro! Me enamoré de este video! Tan puras las tortugas! 🐢🐢❤️💕💞
What?
compliments. Absolutely love this program. Everything
Johnathan films is soooo bIeautuful.
I have just been to Malaysia!! What a beautiful place. even saw a great Hammerhead in Sipadan
This is very educational. Six years ago on our beach I witnessed two sea turtles coming ashore around 10pm and our beaches consist of 4 tourist towns on the East coast of North Florida. Unfortunately, the tourists don't have the understanding for the need of privacy and no lights during this time. Walking up they had surrounded the two females with their cell phones and flashlights. I didn't know what to do. Call the local police? it was me against over a dozen excited tourists. Reluctantly, I had to walk away down to my sleeping place and hope someone had the courage to rescue their exposure. Tourists visiting Florida that walk the beach at night need to be aware that lights are not permitted during turtle egg laying season and really, don't approach a sea turtle coming ashore.
9:50 turtle's tears
I love this so much it's amazing !
Very cute turtles
I love sea turtles! They are so sweet and beautiful to me.
He's a trooper!!!
welcome to malaysia, beautiful
island sipadan amazing beach..
🐙🐡🐠🦀🦈🐬🐚🦑🐟👍🙋♀
Absolutely amazing animals
Thank you for taking the time and effort to share your adventures with us! I love your knowledge and enthusiasm - and the beautiful footage, of course!
this is an absolutely beautiful video. thank you for this!
Watching the sea turtles swim, is like watching an underwater ballet.
If human beings live in harmony with nature all lives will thrive🙏
female have it hard having to swim for two and with all these males harassing them : /
Yulito Morgia well the feminists have finally come.
lel i meant for a turtle couple this is anoyying
I give my ❤️ to that kinda girl
guess these turtles don't know that there are other turtles in the sea
Bitch calm down it just how they mate
Bravo Jonathan Birds to film this wonderful turtles life 👏🤗🤗👍
those other turtles needs to find their own girl :/
Humans need to stop hunting and destroying turtle's environment so there can be more females
Rémi Bogers it's more birds than us
@@Loonyzard that's just how wildlife is, for them to mate most of the time they have to challenge another male
Typical..
Sea turtles are thirsty lol
Wonderful, thank you.
Amazing! So glad you get to see these incredible creatures up close and personal. Thank you for doing what you do and sharing with rest of us...we appreciate you!!! Hugs from Iowa. New sub😍
Thanks for watching!
Incredible! Thx for reupload
thanks for the infos learned a lot.
I love sea turtles
Amazing footage you got here man! Love the vids
Amazing underwater world
I love this my granddaughter is watching it :)
Impressed by your amazing documentary Jonathan. Thanks a lot.
Glad you enjoyed it!
magnificent creatures
When you just wanna give birth and then go home but someone has to videotaping everything.
LOL
I love turtles!
and I really enjoyed watching ur programs!
Great show thanks for sharing a video of these amazing, beautiful turtles.
Glad you enjoyed it
Im so happy you travel all tge way to malaysia! Great video jonathan😊
Jonathan i am very amazed by your skills and sea turtles are very cool to me
I can say only one thing.. wow just amazing 😍😍😍
I love turtles
2:09 me comin back home drunk on my couch next to my bed
I like turtles, and in my place there are many turtles, namely in Indonesia Papua
Wow, we love the little baby sea turtles. You were so lucky to see so many of them hatch together and get the footage of so many baby turtles in the water like that. We caught footage of one in the water, and his brothers and sisters made it in one and two at a time. We were glad we could protect them from the seagulls.
Great dive.
Thanks for this video
Love it 🐢
These creatures are a gift from God. We must protect them and their environment for future generations 💕
I subscribed. Great job on the video it's really entertaining for me
🌊🐢🥰🐢🌊 Such a beautiful video. Green sea turtles are 💚 amazing and 💚 adorable 😍 💕 😊 animals. ADRIANA MORALES FROM ARGENTINA.
Thanks for visiting!
These turtles are so smart and cool, they remind me of humans in a way
Thank for making me sleep every night
You're welcome....I think!!
Wow! I love this wonderful genius good looking man. He's so cute.
:-)
Marvelous and beautiful 😍
Great video. Thanks
Glad you liked it!
Awesome episode!
It is amazing how these sea turtles you their flippers like hands when eating.
Omg the nostalgia 😅
You were litreally my childhood!
I used to love watching literally every video of i can find from you! :D
Keep up the good work my guy!!🎉
We have been hearing this a lot and wondering if the reason our channel is not getting as many views recently is because all our fans grew up and stopped watching TH-cam. Seems like there should be a new generation of fans.
Amazing!!!
Oh I'm crying now 😢😢😢
Amazing
i love nAture and this channel relax me
I love this video, you are a good story teller. I recently posted a teaser about our Sea turtle experience in Cebu, Philippines. Can't wait to post the full video, the coral reef in Cebu is also awesome and the marine sanctuary is divine.
The first time I saw one of these majestic creatures was in the red sea just by snorkling.
I love this video!!! Thanks for it!!! I gave a like!
Wow malaysia. Beautiful sea and heaven of food everyday everyyear
Malaysia especially the Borneo parts's Sabah and Sarawak are incredibel beautiful places.
One of my favorite videos!! Waiting for the next episode!! Lots of love you and your crew!!
More to come!
My Red Eared Slider Yertle loves to watch your video's!
I love sea turtles.
I spend loads of time picking stuff out the seaweed rope plastic etc took me 6 months to clean up an entire coastline by myself. Disabled so can't lift heavy stuff and lot of it was heavy. So much fishermen leave in ocean too makes me angry. Fishermen in my tiny village 40 houses have zero respect they bury ropes nets into coastline throw plastic broken fishing tubs over into water. Zero respect. I maintain this coastline. Keeping it clean while everyone rise walks past the rubbish.
Wish we all could vibrate 5th dimension
Wowww. I from Malaysia
8:21 whoa
8:24-8:25-8:26-8:27 this is a good place to be if you want to get covered in sand
I love animals soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much especialy the sea animals. Lets save them all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!