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Plenty of people who saw the video of a 65-year-old grandfather being tossed in the air like a rag doll by a bison in Yellowstone National Park last weekend assumed that the man must have gotten close enough to the animal to piss it off. At Yellowstone, which has the largest population of the majestic animals, bison attacks are rare relative to the number of park visitors overall. But the animals often called fluffy cows have also racked up the most human-involved injuries of any Yellowstone resident \u2014 and last weekend\u2019s attack was the second this summer.<\/p>\n

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But Carl McDaniel and his 13-year-old grandson, who visit Yellowstone every year, were abiding by the park\u2019s guidance and giving the animal plenty of space, according to Mike MacLeod, a professional wildlife photographer who witnessed the incident. The same bison had charged through the campground minutes before, sending tourists scrambling, and was resting on a patch of ground when the man and his grandson came into view. \u201cThey were walking along the road, quite a ways away from the bison, and it started running at them,\u201d MacLeod told Cowboy State Daily, theorizing that a pickup truck driving into the bison\u2019s sightline at the same moment might have agitated it.<\/p>\n

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Despite common-sense warnings to avoid approaching or interacting with animals in the wild, humans continue to press their luck and, in many cases, suffer exactly the consequences you\u2019d expect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

McDaniel told CNN that as he lay on the ground after being flipped by the bison, it stood over him. \u201cHe could have stomped on me, he could have gored me, he could have done almost anything to take my life, but he did not do so.\u201d Instead, MacLeod and a group of other campers made enough noise to make the bison leave. With one leg broken in 4 places, McDaniel was rushed to the hospital and into surgery. According to MacLeod, McDaniel\u2019s grandson said that his grandfather wanted to see the video to make sure he hadn\u2019t done anything to cause the attack. MacLeod is certain he didn\u2019t. \u201cYou can tell in the video it\u2019s not his fault. You can tell from the very beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Assumptions that the man had breached the bison\u2019s personal space are understandable, given that bison in natural parks are frequently underestimated by visitors attempting to interact with them. A 2024 tweet from the National Parks Service referenced the danger with a message that read, \u201cBelieve in yourself like visitors who believe they can pet a bison.\u201d<\/p>\n

But despite common-sense warnings to avoid approaching or interacting with animals in the wild, humans continue to press their luck and, in many cases, suffer exactly the consequences you\u2019d expect. In January, a skier in China\u2019s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was mauled by a snow leopard while trying to take a selfie from an estimated 10 feet away; visitors had been warned the previous day about a leopard sighting.<\/p>\n

In February 2025, a Canadian visitor to Turks and Caicos attempted a similar stunt with a shark and suffered so much damage to her hands that both had to be amputated. A few months later, a diver and father of four strapped on a GoPro, jumped into the shark-filled water off the coast of Israel and never returned. Not long after that, a Florida man with no permit for shark fishing posed with a recently caught lemon shark and was way too surprised when the fish whipped around and chomped his leg.<\/p>\n

And with each visit to the beach town of Hobart, Tasmania\u2019s unofficial ambassador Neil the Seal draws a bigger audience that includes a handful of people approaching him for selfies. The 5-year-old, 2,000-pound elephant seal should be learning how to play-fight with other juvenile males; instead, in their absence, he fights fences and traffic bollards. The people getting within a few yards of him for action shots have Tasmanian wildlife officials bracing for tragedy every time the seal hauls himself ashore. (Neil flerped back out to sea last weekend, presumably to find a less stressful place to molt).<\/p>\n

\u201cGenerally, if an animal is alert to your presence, you\u2019re already too close,\u201d says Shervin Hess, conservation manager at Portland\u2019s Oregon Zoo. And because humans have grown comfortable \u2014 perhaps too comfortable \u2014 around wild animals in the age of social media and smartphones, more often than not it\u2019s the animals who wind up paying for our heedlessness. Here are a few things to keep in mind when you cross paths in the wild.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve already had enough of us<\/h2>\n

This week, the president of the United States announced a change in the wording of the Endangered Species Act, which was signed into law in 1973. Its original wording defines the word \u201charm\u201d as \u201can act which actually kills or injures wildlife. Such an act may include significant habitat modification or degradation where it actually kills or injures wildlife by significantly impairing essential behavioral patterns, including breeding, feeding or sheltering.\u201d<\/p>\n

There have been previous efforts to downgrade \u201csignificant habitat modification or degradation,\u201d removing it from the category of \u201charm\u201d and putting it into more of a \u201csucks for you\u201d category. But as of July 14, the definition has been altered, and previously protected wildlife habitats are now fair game for developers \u2014 which means, among other things, that species and habitat-recovery programs are now in jeopardy. A statement from Bart Melton of the Conservation Association of National Parks noted that the change \u201cdefies common sense, science, and paves the way for mining, oil and gas drilling, logging, and development in areas that are crucial to the survival of some of our most vulnerable species. This rule ignores decades of conservation science and could undermine recovery efforts for more than 600 species.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cGenerally, if an animal is alert to your presence, you\u2019re already too close,\u201d says Shervin Hess, conservation manager at Portland\u2019s Oregon Zoo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Infrastructure development, deforestation, pollution and urban sprawl have already caused rampant global habitat loss. Research from the Environmental Protection Agency found that in the United States alone, hundreds of species have gone extinct in the last century. Changes to habitats don\u2019t need to be huge or systemic to have disruptive effects on wildlife, Hess says; in 2021 an illegal drone that crashed into a protected seabird nesting ground in Southern California caused panicked adult birds to flee, abandoning an estimated 2,000 eggs.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s important to consider our conservation footprint in addition to our carbon footprint, and part of this just requires paying attention to the wildlife around us in the places we live, and the human impact on it.<\/p>\n

Remember you\u2019re on their turf<\/h2>\n

Golfers at an 18-hole course in my neighborhood regularly find themselves teeing off in the company of coyotes who live in the area, and there\u2019s a tacit agreement between the animals and humans to keep a respectful distance so that both can use the space as they do. When I asked one golfer if he\u2019d ever been tempted to take a selfie with a coyote, he said, \u201cNo, because that would be really stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n

Human-wildlife coexistence is necessary for maintaining biodiversity, but there\u2019s reason to worry that some animals\u2019 ability to tolerate humans makes too many of the latter confuse coexistence with ownership. Earlier this week, birding podcasters Victor and Ruben Stoll posted video taken in Belize\u2019s Mountain Pine Ridge of one of them chasing and petting a jaguar cub. The tiny Central American country, home to a number of protected species, has dealt with an increase in tourist harassment of its wildlife in recent years. Speaking to a news outlet, Belize Zoo executive director Celso Poot noted that even brief handling by humans can cause long-term physiological harm to wild animals. (\u201cIt builds up stress hormones. The muscles lock up, and over time that animal can be affected.\u201d)<\/p>\n

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Human-wildlife coexistence is necessary for maintaining biodiversity, but there\u2019s reason to worry that some animals\u2019 ability to tolerate humans makes too many of the latter confuse coexistence with ownership.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

These incidents aren\u2019t isolated. The black bear cub pulled from a tree next to an apartment complex by residents who wanted a selfie; the freshwater crocodile grabbed by a Canadian influencer who mocked its cries of protest; the baby wombat pulled screaming from its mother by an American influencer all occurred in pursuit of content and social-media clout. And none of the humans involved, at least so far, have faced consequences severe enough to deter others from doing the same.<\/p>\n

\u201cHumans have to remember that we are on their turf,\u201d says Hess, who works with global species-recovery and wildlife-restoration organizations in his capacity as a conservation expert. \u201cWhen there\u2019s a baby seal sitting alone on a beach, it\u2019s not because it\u2019s stranded, but because the mother has parked it there while she goes fishing.\u201d In other words, just because it\u2019s there doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re entitled to pet it.<\/p>\n

Seriously, put your phone away.<\/h2>\n

It\u2019s alarming that this no longer goes without saying, but here we are. To be clear, it is perfectly understandable that you want<\/em> to take selfies with wild animals. \u201cAnimals are amazing. Seeing one in the wild is like seeing a celebrity,\u201d says Hess. \u201cAnd that can make people can lose their common sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is an understatement. The number of people who either take or attempt to take selfies with wild animals grew so rapidly on Instagram in the 2010s that World Animal Protection introduced 2017\u2019s Wildlife Selfie Code, which delivers a pop-up message (\u201cYou are searching for a topic that may be associated with posts that encourage harmful behavior to animals and the environment\u201d) to anyone searching the app for hashtags like #slothselfie.<\/p>\n

The demand for wild-animal selfies fuels illegal operations like the exotic-pet trade and exploitative tourism-focused practices like Thailand\u2019s tiger-selfie industry. These, in turn, make abuse of the animals themselves routine (tigers are often beaten, starved and drugged to make them docile and photo-ready), but also impede broader conservation projects. \u201cIt can be really hard when you see so many other people doing it,\u201d says Hess. \u201cBut you can be the person who says, \u2018Hey guys, let\u2019s back up, let\u2019s put away the phones.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Even when human-wildlife interactions don\u2019t result in catastrophe, the desire to own or claim animals to prove that we have done so isn\u2019t the same thing as loving them. And giving animals space, not demanding their attention and not treating them like props isn\u2019t just respectful coexistence \u2014 it can save would-be action photographers hurt and embarrassment. The woman whose hands were bitten off in Turks and Caicos wanted a unique snapshot for social media; instead, she will always be known as the woman who tried to take a selfie with a shark, and there\u2019s no coming back from that.<\/p>\n

For Hess, simply being in the presence of a polar bear in the Arctic or an orangutan in Borneo means much more than capturing them in photos. \u201cWild animals are so awe-inspiring,\u201d he says. \u201cMaybe people should take something from that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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