Column: Quarantining humans may help sea turtles and generate fake wildlife news

With humans banned from beaches during the coronavirus pandemic, nesting sea turtles may fare better than usual because pesky humans and all their trappings are truly a major threat to turtles’ successful nesting behavior.  

Meanwhile, in the pseudo real world of Twitter, wildlife reporting of dolphins and swans seen in the canals of Venice, and drunken Chinese elephants photographed passing out in the fields after getting liquored up are both false. 

While the Venice canals appear to be cleaner with less than normal boat traffic, the stories about the dolphins, swans and Chinese elephants are not.  

Perhaps quarantining gives rises to creative postings about wildlife as well as cleaner water in Venice canals and more successful conditions for nesting sea turtles to succeed.