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I think we need a required test for entry to parks with wildlife-
You see a bear cub at the side of the road. He appears to be lost and hungry. Do you
A) Put the cub in your vehicle and take it back to the ranger station?
B) Feed the cub and try to comfort it?
C) Realize this is a prime opportunity for a selfie and grab your camera?
D) Leave the poor cub all alone and notify the park officials at the next opportunity?
E) Look around to see if you can find it's mother?
CADES COVE, Tenn. (SBG) - This man in Cades Cove, Tennessee did not keep his distance to a mama bear and her cubs and could have been seriously injured.
I dont think that would help. I have seen people I know, who have degrees in wildlife biology, walk in close to try to get a photo of bears. If anyone should know better.....
I dont think that would help. I have seen people I know, who have degrees in wildlife biology, walk in close to try to get a photo of bears. If anyone should know better.....
Sad but true.
I think the girls parents should be charged with negligence myself. I don’t see it happening but still.
When my son took hunters safety I went ahead and went through the class again with hi . The instructors were both game officers and they showed a film called "Urban Elk." A small Canadian town on the WA border has a huge herd of elk they coexist with year round.
They just cruise around town and do what elk do. Be large and dangerous. The film went into one years worth of tourist incidents with the animals and it's a wake up call. People gored, stomped, ran over and generally left feeling not so good after trying to get up close.
One clown was filming a fight between two rutting bulls on a schoolyard. These critters were flat duking it out and one got his rack caught in the chains on a swingset. This cretin kept walking closer filming as the other bull was goring the caught one and then the tangled bull completely uprooted the swings.
This clown kept filming and the last thing you see is the camera lens showing nothing but hair as the two enraged animals mowed him over. Oh yea...that hurt. Other people were shown parts of town carried in a bulls antlers after trying to touch the animals and all manner of crass stupidity.
Point of lesson was that NEVER take wild animals lightly. There are more people killed and injured by deer in the US every year than ALL other animals (including apex predators) combined because people underestimate them. Badly and at their peril. People just don't get how much stronger than humans animals like deer are pound for pound. A 150 pound deer can turn a 240 pound human inside out. Conversely a 90 -100 pound mountain lion could tear Duane Johnson to shreds in the blink of an eye. But people are more cautious with predators and woefully take critters like Bambi for granted.
Until they get treated to hoof horns and hide. I really can't wrap my head around these idiots who treat wild animals with a lackadaisical manner. Of course I was born and raised on a ranch and up close to the wild places and wrangling livestock. I've been hurt while trying my best to avoid it. Someone begging for it has lost their mind.
I think the worst experience with a wild animal was with a badger. A 40 or so pound critter but all teeth claws and generally poor attitude towards others. He didn't get hold of me thankfully thanks to my then young fleet feet. Oh my Dad laughed like Hell. . All he said was "You'll watch where you're going next time huh boy."
people, please remember that when threatened, a beast can be thwarted with a sharp punch to the nose. Recently happened with a shark in North Carolina, a knife wielding maniac in California, a "big bird" in England a kangaroo in Australia and a sloth at Roscoe's Petting Zoo in Arkansas.
While we're on the subject of stupid people in nature, maybe people should have to take a nature class or something.
The Park Service at Yellowstone should stop every visitor as they arrive and make them watch an instructional video.
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The film went into one years worth of tourist incidents with the animals and it's a wake up call. People gored, stomped, ran over and generally left feeling not so good after trying to get up close. 
Oh yea...that hurt. Other people were shown parts of town carried in a bulls antlers after trying to touch the animals and all manner of crass stupidity. 
. All he said was "You'll watch where you're going next time huh boy."
