Tourists take closeup pictures of the solitary bulls all the time. Its like a game of russian roulette.
Posted on 06/04/2023 3:32:04 PM PDT by george76
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. - With the summer tourism season kicking off, Yellowstone National Park is reminding visitors not to disturb wildlife, even if the animal looks to be distressed or in need of help.
Park rangers said over the Memorial Day weekend, visitors placed a newborn elk into their car and drove it to the local police station.
The elk later ran off, and its condition is currently unknown with an investigation underway.
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Last month, a visitor was seen taking a selfie dangerously close to a bison while visiting Biscuit Basin in Yellowstone National Park. Video captured on May 20 in Wyoming shows a woman standing right next to a bison which was lying down and the person who recorded the video said they were in a "bit of disbelief" by the woman’s actions.
Another man pleased guilty and was fined after he intentionally disturbed a newborn bison calf in an "unfortunate" incident that resulted in the animal's death. He approached the bison in Lamar Valley near the convergence of the Lamar River and Soda Butte Creek. The calf had been separated from its mother when a herd of bison crossed the Lamar River. The man pushed the baby bison up from the river and onto the roadway, and visitors later observed the calf walking up to cars and following people.
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People just can’t allow nature to take its course.
must have missed the day in kindergarten when the lesson was, “if it isn’t yours, leave it alone.”
For the sake of the animals.
Darwin Award season is open. I’ve been there. A black bear pushed it’s nose up on my drivers side window & showed off an impression array of claws. That place is not a petting zoo.
Tourists take closeup pictures of the solitary bulls all the time. Its like a game of russian roulette.
Mother nature administers her own IQ test and it seems to work much better than our woke idea of standardized testing.
Should have taken it to the local Elk Lodge.
Some of these people are foreign and simply ignorant.
When my 3 children were still kids we had 2 Japanese college exchange students (Yurio and Yumiko..if I recall) spend a week with us. I felt it was a valuable learning experience for all. Anyway my house and property at the time adjoined a State Forrest of about 300 acres…kick myself for selling that one….anyway.
They were both from Tokyo and we spent about 4 hours one day exploring that forest. They were utterly amazed. I actually have/had pictures somewhere of them feeling the trees. They literally had never been in a forest in their 20 something years. Nor had they ever seen real trees of considerable size up close. Everything wild was amazing to them, squirrels, deer in the area etc.
People these days are so REMOVED from ‘Nature’ in ANY form that they haven’t a CLUE how She works!
Maybe instead of the National Parks spending time and money to get ‘peoples of color’ (except the color, ‘white’) to visit the parks - because it’s White Supremacy or SOMETHING, they should have EVERYONE take a TEST of some sort before they’re allowed to enter.
*Rolleyes*
Tourists have killed another baby animal.
A. People find animals in distress.
B. People try to help animals.
C. Government arrests said people.
D. Government kills said animals.
Many years ago we lived in Palo Pinto County Texas, a local school teacher had taken a job there from some big city. She knew nothing about wild life. She hit a deer with her vehicle and tried putting the unconscious buck in the back of her mini van intending to take it to a vet. It woke up and the crippled animal destroyed the inside of her van before it escaped to go off and die in the woods. The vehicles was a near total write off.
:Perhaps an IQ test or something similar should be administered prior to entry to any National Park”
We need it for voting, not for parks.
It's called natural selection!
Several yaks escaped in my area. They look mean and are large.
The rancher and the cops had a heck of a time rounding them up.
Perhaps an IQ test or something similar
Because
Stupidity and Ignorance are contagious diseases.
Are people getting dumber?
When I was a kid people seemed to know to leave wild animals alone.
A dozen years ago I was seeing the same in Yellowstone. On the way out of the Park back to Teton Village, traffic came to a crawl. On the opposite of the road on a small bank, a large Black Bear was rooting around in the grass. Fricking multiple people were out of their cars getting as close as possible for photos. AND A FRICKING Park Ranger instead of chastising the people for being idiots AND breaking the very specific rules of exactly what they were doing was more concerned with traffic control. UNFRIGGING believable.
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