Some people just shouldn’t think that the rules apply to them.

He TouronsDeYellowstone (@touronsofamarillostone) Instagram account shared the latest example of tourists circumventing the rules pose for close-up photographs with a wild bison.

In the footage, captured by the photographer. Heather Michele Smith (@koolsista on Instagram) in Yellowstone, some visitors pose for photos or take close-ups just 10 feet or so from the animal. A group of about a dozen nearby takes photographs more than 20 feet away, still much closer than the 25 meters distance prescribed by the Yellowstone Observatory. park rules.

“These people are too close… they don’t know it,” a voice in the video comments about the scene.

As the car in the video drives past the bison, a larger group can be seen observing and taking photographs of the animal from a safe and appropriate distance.

The images are especially frustrating because criminals clearly should know better, if only from context clues. It is impossible to know why tourists believe they have the right to get closer than others. Some even consider it wise to turn your back on the bison at close range.

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Many interactions with bison do not end with the unharmed human. While they may seem like gentle giants, visitors to Yellowstone commonly underestimate the dangers of invading the bison’s space.

How else to explain the constant scenes of visiting visitors? incredibly close to capture photos? Many are lucky to get away with it. just a warning through a false accusation or a love faucetbut the more people ignore the rules, the greater the likelihood that interactions will worsen.

It’s not just humans who run some of that risk. Park rangers and veterinarians may have to sacrifice a bison that becomes too friendly with visitors or attacks them.

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Acting within the rules will help tourists vacation responsiblybut also avoid dangerous behavior.

Instagram commenters were left disappointed by the tourists’ bad behavior.

“I don’t understand why huge fines aren’t imposed on those who do this,” one wonders.

“They really have no idea of ​​the danger,” another noted before saying they “never thought about ‘let me walk so close to a bison.'”

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