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Mislabeled?
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I've been engaged in a conversation over at the Sea Turtle talk page about this image. For ease of reference, I'll include the discussion here.
- In the Conservation section, there's a picture labeled as a sea turtle caught in a net. When I look at this picture, I see what looks like a seal caught in a net. Would someone else please take a look at the picture and see what you think? If I don't see any comments to the contrary, then next time I log in I'll remove the picture from the article. If you agree with me, feel free to remove the picture yourself. —CKA3KA (Skazka) (talk) 03:00, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
- Looks like a turtle to me - you can see the hard line of the shell.--Graminophile (talk) 13:23, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
- I see what you mean, but I think that's just a fold of skin caused by the animal's position in the net. Look closely at the flippers and compare them to the flippers of all the sea-turtle pictures in this article and others. They don't look at all like turtle flippers. Then compare them to seal flippers. Also, there's a shoulder fold visible in what would have to be a shell if it were a turtle. Shells don't fold, unless, maybe, it's a leatherback; but a leatherback has dorsal ridges that seem to be missing on this animal. In addition, if you look at the shape near the bottom, the body looks longer and thinner than a turtle, but it makes sense if it's a seal. Last and, I suppose, least convincingly, the color's all wrong. All this taken together seems to me to strongly suggest that the picture is mislabeled. —CKA3KA (Skazka) (talk) 04:42, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
- You could well be right - the position of the shoulder doesn't look like that of a turtle. There's a higher resolution version of the photo here. So, it might be best to remove it. --Graminophile (talk) 08:54, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks, Graminophile. I've removed the picture from the article, but I'm putting it here for safekeeping. —CKA3KA (Skazka) (talk) 07:07, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
- You could well be right - the position of the shoulder doesn't look like that of a turtle. There's a higher resolution version of the photo here. So, it might be best to remove it. --Graminophile (talk) 08:54, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
- I see what you mean, but I think that's just a fold of skin caused by the animal's position in the net. Look closely at the flippers and compare them to the flippers of all the sea-turtle pictures in this article and others. They don't look at all like turtle flippers. Then compare them to seal flippers. Also, there's a shoulder fold visible in what would have to be a shell if it were a turtle. Shells don't fold, unless, maybe, it's a leatherback; but a leatherback has dorsal ridges that seem to be missing on this animal. In addition, if you look at the shape near the bottom, the body looks longer and thinner than a turtle, but it makes sense if it's a seal. Last and, I suppose, least convincingly, the color's all wrong. All this taken together seems to me to strongly suggest that the picture is mislabeled. —CKA3KA (Skazka) (talk) 04:42, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
- Looks like a turtle to me - you can see the hard line of the shell.--Graminophile (talk) 13:23, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
For reasons that I think are obvious ;-), I'm not putting the picture here, as I did in the Sea Turtle talk page. As you can tell, I think this picture is mislabeled. Let's talk about it and see about changing its title. —CKA3KA (Skazka) (talk) 17:15, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
