Shark seeks help for a turtle with plastic rope round it's neck [Edit: Fake/Fabricated]

[ClearSky24]

Last edited Thu Jul 20, 2023, 10:31 PM - Edit history (1)

Link to tweet

[global1]

1. WoW!!!....nt

[UpInArms]

2. Omg

We are destroying all of these magnificent creatures … and they are begging us to save them

[Dan]

12. Save us? I don't know but

It reveals how little we know of the world and our place in it.

[UpInArms]

29. Not saving "us"

Saving “them”
…

Not certain you read my post

[Dan]

30. Sorry, maybe I should have said it better.

In "Saving Them", maybe what I was trying to say that we are all part of the ego-system. While "saving them", maybe in some ways we are saving ourselves. We understand so little about this world that we share.

[UpInArms]

31. I do agree with that

am so frustrated that we have those among us who seem intent on destroying this planet and everything and everyone on it.

[mountain grammy]

13. I feel the same way..

[patphil]

3. A compassionate shark. Who would have believed it.

[a kennedy]

4. that is unfreaking believable

[pnwmom]

19. It is unbelievable because it didn't happen. nt

[NowISeetheLight]

5. Sign

OK... if God was going to send a sign to all us unworthy humans... it would be like this. To think some are knowingly destroying the environment and ocean life.

"We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came." John F Kennedy

[Biophilic]

6. That is one amazing story. Thank you.

[lpbk2713]

7. Remarkable.

I would love to know something about the background of that shark. Whether it has ever had any interaction with humans that might make it think they would help another species.

[catchnrelease]

20. Sadly it's not as it seems

If you scroll down in the twitter comments there is one that tells the 'shark rescues turtle' vid is fake. Two videos spliced together--one shows some guys fishing who rescue the turtle from the shark which is trying to eat it. Turtle is desperately trying to get onto the boat. No rope on that guys neck. The fishermen release the turtle in a safer area. Second video is of another turtle with the rope that is removed from it's neck. A nice story but just not true.

[lpbk2713]

22. Next you're gonna tell me there's no such thing as the Easter Bunny.

OK thanks.

Something was telling me it had to be impossible.

[pansypoo53219]

23. fuzziness should be an alert.

[sheshe2]

8. That is an amazing story.

Wow. Thank you.

[Sky Jewels]

9. Amazing!!

That turtle was probably thinking, “Shit, first I get strangled by plastic and now I’m gonna get eaten by a shark!” But it all turned around.

[flashman13]

10. Animals are so much more than just things. They do not deserve what we do to them.

[Duppers]

21. +1000

TY.

Not a vegetarian but am trying to spare as many intelligent critters I can. (Eggs and shrimp are my go-to protein sources.)

What escapes most folks is just how intelligent most critters are. (Glad to have grown up on a farm where baby critters were my pets. When you love an animal, you don't eat it.)

[sinkingfeeling]

11. That is amazing. Proving sharks are highly intelligent .

[Karadeniz]

14. Awesome !!!

[swong19104]

15. It's amazing how little we know

about how animals communicate with each other, especially animals of different species. It's like we're the only mono-lingual species and they all can communicate in multiple species-languages.

Our pet dogs and cats are going, "Yeah, you don't know a tenth of it!"

[Stinky The Clown]

16. Totally amazing.

[Faux pas]

17. ...

Seen it all now, a shark is more compassionate than any republican

[Duppers]

25. 😁

[JustAnotherGen]

18. Its not real - two recordings

Combined

https://english.factcrescendo.com/2023/05/31/edited-video-shared-as-shark-helping-humans-to-rescue-a-sea-turtle/amp/

What IS true is that the Marine Biologist off the coast of Costa Rica really did help that magnificent girl!

[Easterncedar]

24. Maybe delete or change this title

Since it’s not true?

[ClearSky24]

26. I changed the title

to let people know that the video is fake. I thought it was authentic. Sorry.

[LudwigPastorius]

27. Glurge

[MorbidButterflyTat]

28. Tear jerky

and sweet.

The turtle was rescued, cared for, and saved.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

32. Suckers! I knew this was fake twitter as soon as it showed altruism from a shark! lolol

[cab67]

33. looks like an oceanic whitetip.

They're among the Big 4 when it comes to sharks considered dangerous to humans (the others being tiger, great white, and bull). They rarely approach the shore, but they're probably responsible for a lot of the attacks against survivors of maritime disasters.

They don't specifically pursue humans as prey, but they're very large and aren't particular about what they eat.