was watching a documentary and saw theses baby turtles that almost straight running towards the sea once hatched, and couldn’t understand that how they knew about that sea is where they should be going, without any adult turtle nearby or something that could guide them…
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In a way, they have no idea what “the sea” is. It’s more like an automatic reflex after birth: go towards the light.
This reflex evolved blindly because the turtles that ended up in the water the fastest were the most likely to survive.
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