Idiots and Wildlife

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wensleydale

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I thought it would be nice to have a thread where we could share videos and stories like this:


Wanted to put up the bison goring but chickened out.

I wanted to call the thread "Idiots of Yellowstone" but there are idiots at many national parks throughout the world, as well as other places, and I wanted the thread to be more inclusive.

I thankfully haven't done too many dumb things around wildlife. One time when I was in high school I stepped on a crab buried in the sand at the beach and another time a toad peed on me (well, on the towel I wrapped it in) when I moved it out of the barn I was at. Pretty lame and barely worth reporting.

May this be a place for cautionary tales.
 
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I was feeding habituated 'wild' cockatoos once, and a cheeky bugger was perched on my arm while I fed it almonds. He then casually walked down my arm and started gripping/biting my fingers like a pair of sharp pliers. Instinctively, I opened my clenched fist and dropped all the nuts on the floor, just as he planned all along, with blood pouring from the base of my thumb that he tried to amputate.
 
Kookaburras can be very cheeky when food is involved. As can seagulls. (At least in Perth they can)
 
I was also bitten by a habituated wild cockatoo. Strangely enough while on holiday in Melbourne.
 
wensleydale said:
I wanted to call the thread "Idiots of Yellowstone" but there are idiots at many national parks throughout the world, as well as other places, and I wanted the thread to be more inclusive.
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Nothing on this video shows me the people were actually being idiots. This is a big tourist area where people congregate. There are plenty of Bison around, usually quiet but this one was obviously fired up and aggressive. The boy walking out in the open wasn't expecting the Bison to chase him. The people in the trees were obviously trying to get away from the animal, rather than tease or annoy it. You can't always anticipate a situation like this which is bound to happen sometimes when people and animals are in close proximity.

I've seen rutting Wapiti at one of the hotel resorts in Yellowstone and some tourists approached them closely to photograph them, we stopped and warned them to keep away from the stag, and I thought at the time what a potential hazard this presented.
 
haha this is a great thread!!

this sprung to mind straight away


Too much T.V. for you sir!!
 
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Educational, but full of idiots and the wild Elk of Yellowstone, who clearly are more comfortable around humans than the average Elk. A friendly warning from the United States Government about how Dangerous Elk can be.


Incidentally I despise Cockatoos. I don't mean to hurt anyone's feelings, but I refuse to have them as pets (unless they are cockatiels, which I adore) and am grateful they are not wild in the United States.
 
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Pertinax said:
Nothing on this video shows me the people were actually being idiots. This is a big tourist area where people congregate. There are plenty of Bison around, usually quiet but this one was obviously fired up and aggressive. The boy walking out in the open wasn't expecting the Bison to chase him. The people in the trees were obviously trying to get away from the animal, rather than tease or annoy it. You can't always anticipate a situation like this which is bound to happen sometimes when people and animals are in close proximity.

I've seen rutting Wapiti at one of the hotel resorts in Yellowstone and some tourists approached them closely to photograph them, we stopped and warned them to keep away from the stag, and I thought at the time what a potential hazard this presented.
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I sure the Park Rangers would tell you that they were, in fact, doing something they shouldn't have been doing. I doubt the Bison would have just wandered into a large group of humans on its own accord.

If those people aren't dumb enough for you I hope this one will be.

 
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I've held alligators, coatimundis, Burmese pythons, and macaws, and I lucky to say I've never been bitten or scratched. The worst "attack" I ever had was a dog bite in the leg, with no bleeding.
 
Warning: Language not safe for work. My inability to sleep well in the heat brought me to this video, I first saw this on the midnight rerun of Tosh.0 (shame on me).


I'm actually not a big fan of shark fishing.
 
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