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The turtle from Antonio's flashbacks (and on tv) is not a marine turtle.


Rather, a freshwater species.
Looked to be a Trachemys or Pseudemys or anyway belonging to the Emydidae family.

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I noticed that too. I let it go because nearly all sea turtles are endangered so there's no way they were going to be able to use a live one. I'd rather them use something living as opposed to a crappy looking cgi. I'm also not sure the memory is authentic and the character may be filling in the gaps with what he can remember if animals before the climate changed.

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Good catch, I missed that one!

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no but then again they didn't show it in the water. Rivers flow into the ocean and I am sure there are species of freshwater turtles that show up occasionally on beaches. I'm not sure if they were trying to pass it off as a sea turtle or not.

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They did show the turtle in water at one point. I thought that was kind of mean, if they had done that in the ocean in reality.

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I thought that, too, but doubt they'd have done it in the ocean. Much harder to film, and the turtle probably would've died very quickly.

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Freshwater species sometimes get washed down to beaches. I have seen it happen to gators. Thank God this was just a turtle.

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I see claws, not flippers, so I agree, its a land, not sea species.

It looks like a Hermann's tortoise (Testudo hermanni) to me.

I believe the beach scenes in Automata were shot on the Black Sea cost of Bulgaria, habitat to several sea and land turtles and tortoises, including the Hermann's toutoise. They're common enough there that some tourism websites have called the coast "turtle-tastic", so it's possible they just used a turtle they caught on the set.

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I think it was an intentional error. When the robot tells him that it's never seen the ocean he says that he's not sure if he has or not. He has memories of it but he doesn't know if they are real.
The turtle in his memories is from the video playing in the shop.

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