World Turtle Day | Snapchat girl "saves" Gopher Tortoise | FAIL | Turtle saving is my hobby
Channel: Tortally Hoppin
Date: 25/09/2015

World Turtle Day | Snapchat girl "saves" Gopher Tortoise | Turtle saving is my hobby FAIL 
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If your not an expert and you find any wild animal in the wild, leave it alone instead of virtue signalling or trying to get likes on social media.

This is a Gopher Tortoise and Tortoises cannot swim.  Tortoises are terrestrial, which means that they live on land. Unlike aquatic turtles, tortoises lack webbed feet.  Should a tortoise by accident fall into a pond or swimming pool it could sink to the bottom like a rock and drown, if it cannot get out.
This species can hold it's breath for approximately 20 minutes.

No animal should be thrown like this, regardless of if it is aquatic or not.  Injuries and/or shock from the high impact could kill or seriously injure any animal.  Not to mention the 'thrower' has no idea of water depth, what the animal will hit in the water on the way to the bottom or if it will land upside down or not.

To answer a frequently asked question; experts have said it would be almost certain this tortoise did not survive the incident.

Gopher tortoises are found in the southeastern United States, including Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida.
Gopher Tortoise FWC Rules & Regulations - http://goo.gl/W0ls9E
$1000 reward program - http://goo.gl/IXayTV

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