Or a worse doom?
This Hillstream Soft-shelled Turtle (Dogania spp) got caught in the current of water rushing into a sluice gate at one of the rivers in Langkawi. Now that it's been raining a fair bit, there's been lots more water in the rivers and forest streams and at some places the current can be quite strong for small creatures such as this little turtle. More so when you have man-made structures, such as the sluice gate, that gets in the way in the natural flow of things and the chances of the turtle saving itself somehow gets drastically slimmer.
Anyway, it was spotted by some homo sapiens and this little turtle was fished out from the water. A bucket was found and that was where the turtle ended up in.
For some reason, I did not ask what would happen to it. Or what they were going to do with it.
Perhaps because I did not want to know.
But with the locals here, whenever a creature such as this is caught, it either ends up at the dinner table or it gets sold for money and if it is lucky, become somebody's pet. Otherwise... perhaps, eventually... back to the dinner table.
Where do you think it would go?
You should buy it from them, then relocate it (just a thought). then it will be found by another homosapien and cycle returns :(
ReplyDeleteRelocating it would be another problem. If it's the wrong surroundings, the turtle will not survive too. Never mind if it was preyed upon and its death was quick but what if it had to starve? Then the suffering might have been greater. If you do think of other ways, please do share your thoughts again. ;-)
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