bcheary wrote:
http://petapixel.com/2013/11/17/elk-headbutting-incident-put-national-park-photographer-appalled/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29
That is what happens when people start handing feeding wild animals.
sb
Loc: Florida's East Coast
One of the funniest things I ever saw was an encounter between a photographer and a bull elk at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone. The bull was sitting peacefully on the grass with his harem in front of the chapel. I was a respectful distance across the street. All of a sudden a Volkswagon Beetle pulls up to the curb near the bull moose. A big guy gets out with his camera and walks right up to the bull elk to get a photo - right in his face - and most importantly, in his space. The bull elk calmy got to his feet, lowered his huge rack of antlers at the photographer, and slowly walked him right back to his car, where he quickly got in and drove away. The elk walked back over and resumed his position as the head of his harem. The look on that guys face was absolutely priceless....
When I first saw this story I figured the photographer was just in the elk's space, but I guess the elk was getting too accustomed to people feeding it. In Florida idiot people feed alligators - with even worse consequences.
OBXbill
Loc: Outer Banks NC / Cape Coral FL
Actually the "Florida idiots" are usually northern "Snow Birds" :)
Should have poked it in the eyes Easy for me to say
Bloke
Loc: Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
bcheary wrote:
http://petapixel.com/2013/11/17/elk-headbutting-incident-put-national-park-photographer-appalled/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29
That is a shame! It's not like the guy was injured by it or anything...
Some people use any excuse to prove they are a man by killing animals-two or 4 legged. Hope the meat was put to good use. Early in my photography I was warned that a camera lens was interpreted by wild animals as an eye staring them down. It is well known that eye to eye contact is a challenge in the animal world.
Bloke wrote:
That is a shame! It's not like the guy was injured by it or anything...
Bloke wrote:
That is a shame! It's not like the guy was injured by it or anything...
It was not like the guy was injured by it or anything... this time. The Elk was not afraid of humans and that in itself is the danger to us humans. The Elk was still a wild animal. The Rangers said it was already showing signs of aggression. In time it would become more of a danger.
If you love animals, love at a distance.
My experience one day with a young Deer
http://youtu.be/wZnA-Ve0jDE although wild, broken by living near people around farms where it isn't hunted, he was on my property, later to grow antlers where I wouldn't take a chance now, that is not without a Viking helmet.
Bloke wrote:
That is a shame! It's not like the guy was injured by it or anything...
That is the problem when people start fooling around with wildlife. They should give them a wide birth. That is what telephoto lenses were made for.
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