Blue Planet: Executive producer defends sea turtle hatchling release
"The hatchlings form a major part of the gulls' diet," Roger Webb explains.
"As cruel as it may appear, it is nature doing what nature does, and the hatchling will become important food for the growing chicks of that gull." But some viewers argued it wasn't fair for the programme to release the hatchlings when it was light and in full view of predators. Roger says the reason they were released at that time was because the hatchlings' siblings had emerged 48 hours earlier as first light was emerging.
"We were taking those left in the nest onto the beach, mirroring the daylight situation their siblings had emerged into."The scientists here take the hatchlings that would normally die in the nests, the ones that are left behind after the clutch have emerged days before, to give them a lifeline. Do you really think the scientists would let us do that? And Hatchlings often emerge in daylight too.
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