Nature is not allbreathtaking landscapesandadorable fluffies . Sometimes , nature   is cruel and terrific . The Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ocelot’smimicry of baby monkeys , a gambit to lure unsuspicious quarry , is a case in full point .

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citizenry take to Twitter to give vent their lugubriousness that this finical turtle was not able to discharge its journeying with the other hatchlings .

( Well , not everyone . )

And some verbalize some foiling that the film crew did n’t do more to aid the babe turtle .

The turtle - snatching incident occurred after scientists working at the Heron Island Research Station , Australia , rescued six hatchling from their nest chamber . Viewers were told that all six would have died had there not been this human interference .

Because of a unconscious process called " imprinting " that start the turtle to come back to the beach   later on ( " natal homing " ) , the hatchlings can not be released directly into the H2O . And so , the scientists released the turtles on the beach , where they are impart vulnerable to wily predators .

As the BBC explained in astatementreleased in the wake of the drama : " In this case , as with the turtles that go forth naturally , some opportunistic predation pass by other metal money either looking to feed themselves or their own youth . If this happens we are unable to intervene and have to lease nature take its row . "

The programme ’s executive producer , Roger Webb , reaffirmed the BBC ’s stance on intervention , saying , " What go on and the way it play out was unfortunate . It ’s not for us to step in . "

" With a predator with such warm wits and ability – they ’re always going have their center on the loot . "

Some have knock the film crew for releasing the hatchlings when it was still light . David Godfrey ,   Executive Director of the nonprofit Sea Turtle Conservancy , toldTIME :   " The fact that these hatchling were release in the day is where the misapprehension was made . "

" If the bird had n’t gotten the hatchling , then a predatory fish wait just offshore would have . "

The brutal the true   – as explained by experts in the show – is that only one in 1,000 green ocean turtles make it to adulthood . The BBC calls the perilous journey to the sea " a tough , but crucial , first test " for the hatchling , who will have to survive a sort of predators   – birds , Pisces , beach scavengers   – to make it to adulthood and return to the beaches to cover in recent lifespan .