Every year, around the North Pacific beaches of Costa Rica, thousands of turtles set off on a mission to lay their eggs above the high water mark on the shore. The nesting season is truly a spectacle where around 20,000 reptiles in a single day crawl out of the sea, to where they themselves hatched at least 15 years ago, to carry on the reproductive process.
This very particular episode of PBS/BBS series
The Tropics: Spy in the Wild presents a curious chance to see this animal kingdom phenomena, and not just in any way, but recorded by an unexpectedly lifelike robot turtle. And just to make things even more fascinating, the robot turtle lays none other than eggs that have built-in cameras that catch enthralling shots of hovering vultures and all of the surroundings.