Green sea turtle helps nurture a baby dugong in Dong Tarn Bay area

[snoop1130]

 

Heartening images of a huge green sea turtle nurturing a baby dugong in Thailand’s Dong Tarn Bay were posted on the Facebook page of Sakanan Plathong, a biology lecturer at the Science Faculty of Prince of Songkhla University today (Tuesday).

 

“The baby dugong has a green sea turtle as its new mother. The fact that it is a huge turtle shows that it is familiar with the area and where it is safe, otherwise it would have been caught in fishing nets and died a long time ago. The turtle knows which route is safe,” said Sakanan.

 

He suspects that the mother of the baby dugong may be the one which was found dead in the Dong Tarn Bay area last December, leaving its baby orphaned. So, when the baby dugong found the green sea turtle, it just clung on to it and refused to leave.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/green-sea-turtle-helps-nurture-a-baby-dugong-in-dong-tarn-bay-area/

 

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[worgeordie]

Good news  for a change ......made my day.

 

regards Worgeordie

[nobodysfriend]

Most people do not realize what a wonderful world we have been living in ...

 

" a huge turtle shows that it is familiar with the area and where it is safe, otherwise it would have been caught in fishing nets and died a long time ago. "

 

Humons are always ready to put their " PROFIT" first . Destructive species ...

 

 

[ignore it]

Symbiotic relationship.

 

Dugong eats the algae off the turtle shell.

Turtle gets cleaned.

 

Kinda like fat forang and bar girl.

[hotchilli]

27 minutes ago, ignore it said:

Symbiotic relationship.

 

Dugong eats the algae off the turtle shell.

Turtle gets cleaned.

 

Kinda like fat forang and bar girl.

Free ride and boned out...

[phetphet]

Unfortunately, now the news is out, we will probably see that fishermen have caught and killed a Green Turtle and its unusual companion,  a baby Dugong.

 

Let's hope not.