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Hatchling crawling to beach (1.3MB)  |  5 days after a turtle nest hatches the nest is excavated to see how many eggs hatched and how many didn't. Often there will be one or more live hatchlings that got caught in the nest. This movie is of one of these trapped hatchlings. When released the hatchling made a beeline for the surf.