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A House Crow turns turtle babies upside down as they ran towards the Bay of Bengal, to feast on them later. 999 out of 1000 Ridley Turtles born in India will perish and only one will survive. See some of those 999 babies that die... Truly sad, but then nature is truly red in tooth and claw, as one poetic sage once said... The crow turns several turtle babies over, to block off enough of a feast for later on, as once they reach the sea, they are essentially out of reach for the crows. A tiny baby new-hatched Olive Ridley Turtle struggles to get out of the sand, shortly after hatching in its sandy nest along the Odisha shore of the Bay of Bengal, at Rushikuliya / Rushikulya and Gahirmatha beaches. In what marks the end of the breeding season spent in India, and the beginning of their new liv
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