Animal Planet, Discovery Channel?
No, the scene you’re about to see took place in a southern Brazilian city with 2 million people called Porto Alegre, in a downtown park.
The animal, as a matter of fact, is a tortoise and not a turtle, but who can actually see the difference?
The man who appears on the video is Clóvis Bujes, an animal biology PHD. He explains that tortoises are predators, but this kind of attack is very unusual.
“There are too many tortoises in a small place, and the quest for food leads them to attack the pigeons. People should do nothing about it, since this is the way things go in nature”.
Ronaldo Bernardi, who works for Zero Hora, a popular newspaper, shot the whole scene and he tells it took months:
“I went to the park on a daily basis for six months, after people told me that this kind of thing happened quite often. Today (January 21), I was lucky”.
