I live about 20 miles from the park and I can assure you that people today are no better educated about wildlife than they were 100 years ago. In some ways they’re worse.
This is not Disneyland and too many people have to find that out the hard way.
Stupid should hurt......................
Funny you bring that up. I blame Disney for so many having unrealistic appraisals of wildlife behavior. Growing up with Bambi, etc., and lots of Disney-anthropomorphized cartoon critters is a big part of the reason for that. And too few have real interactions with even farm/ranch critters, let alone wild ones. Meat comes from a foam tray at the grocery store, after all.