Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Tortoise Hatchling

Tortoise Hatchling

A baby tortoise hatching from its egg
a Wikipedia:Featured picture

A featured picture by Richard Mayer on the German Wiki, where it is used as part of a series of photos on a rather interesting looking article on the Marginated Tortoise which could use translating. I've cropped it to be square and added it to egg, to redress the understandable avian bias (also on tortoise of course). -- Solipsist 21:32, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

• Support. -- Solipsist 21:32, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Support. Hello World! -- Chris 73 Talk 02:09, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
• Support. Poor turtle. The first thing it sees while getting out of the egg is a giant with a camera. Very nice picture. Janderk 09:08, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Support -- sannse (talk) 11:15, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Support -- Mpolo 12:40, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC) (I'm planning on working on translating Marginated tortoise...)
• Support. --ScottyBoy900Q∞ 16:11, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Support, how wonderful! It would have been interesting to know the scale though. fabiform | talk 16:52, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Support -- William M. Connolley 19:08, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC).
• Support. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 21:09, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
• Oppose. I'm swimming against the current, but I dont think its quite feature worthy. Thumbnail looks good but full image isn't so good. Also the shell almost looks as if someone was helping it along - the othermose 'layer' of the shell is the part which as the most cracked from it. I dont know whether its natural or not, but my first reaction was a suspicion that someone peeled of some of the shell - no offense meant though. --Fir0002 06:04, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Support. Based on extensive experience watching chickens hatch (though admittedly none watching tortoises), the uneven cracking of outer and inner layers does not look too unusual to me, and I think it is very reasonable to assume the tortoise was not receiving help (though of course this is a very general amateur opinion). Besides, I think it's a very good picture, and well worthy of featuring even if the tortoise was getting assistance. Jwrosenzweig 22:28, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Support. Utterly cute, hope it wasn't "helped" to hatch though. -- [[User:Solitude|Solitude\^talk]] 09:33, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)
• Support, Cute.--Comrade Nick @)---^-- 13:58, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

• Promoted, +12/-1 -- [[User:Solitude|Solitude\^talk]] 12:59, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)