I was reading the articles for class about Wildlife Tourism. The article about wildlife responses to human had a picture of grizzlies in Katmai National Park. I had seen this video, also in Katmai with the grizzlies.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/grizzly-bear-charges-alaskan-tourists-video-010559736.html
If you watched the video, you can see the tourists are very close to the bear and the bear clearly seems threatened based on his response. It doesn't seem the bear was habituated because he didn't ignore the tourists sitting there. I wonder if tourists get to close to wildlife in these instances. Clearly the bear was not happy about it and I don't know about you, but I don't know if I could sit still like they do in the video because I would be so scared! That article we read for class mentions that having these animals out there makes them more susceptible to poaching and hunting if they leave their protected areas. Anyway, I just thought this video was fitting for wildlife tourism and the effects it can have on both animal and people.
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