Turtle Crossing
Posted Oct 31, 2017, 11:39 PM UTC
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I was waiting for a turtle to cross because the title confused me.
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I was also expecting a very slow gif of a turtle crossing The image
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I hope that fence there doesn't block them off :(
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A desire path wouldn't be there if the turtle was being blocked off.
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I'm imagining the fence may have been put up recently.
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I think the area around the fence would look a lot more disrupted if it was put in recently.
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He just wants to feel really bad about the turtles, let him have this.
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Naw, that fence has been there for years. The turtles are professional limbo-ers by now.
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I'm pretty sure they go right under :)
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I thought this was a gif and waited way to long for the turtle to appear..
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I don't get it, y'all get upset about that guy posting the pic of the dog's daily route yet this is fine for everyone?
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I mean, it's completely true... The exact reasoning everyone complained about the dog path was some pedantic qualification "a desire path is only when there's already a constructed path but someone creates another path"... This is clearly just the shortest route for the turtles so by their very definition it's not a path.
I personally am in favor of cute animal paths but it's pretty hypocritical for everyone to dog on the dog post but be cool with the turtle post. Either be for it or against it.
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The problem is: unless you've been taking names or conducting exit surveys, you don't really know if the same people who dogged the dog path are loving the turtle path. This might be a totally different subset. It could also be people are just grumpy on certain days.
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Thought this was a gif for a second
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I swear I've seen this somewhere else
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R A R E
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nuanced!
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the turtle fence has failed :(
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This has to be one of the best desire path pics I've seen, thanks for sharing it!!
Only the little turtles can use this one. It’s a baby turtle desire path, even better.
I came across this little guy crossing a similar path last month.
https://imgur.com/a/OIJaR
Oh man. That lil' one is going to be huge and angry one day and somehow that makes this even cuter.
So freaking SMALL! holy shit!
Yeah, I actually took the close up first and then then decided to take the wide shot because you couldn't tell that he's only about the size of a quarter. He's crossing really fine pea gravel, but it looks like crushed rock in the close up. You can see the actual crushed rock from the rail road beside the trail in the wide shot.