Yet another hiker has been spotted with his phone out, posing for photos with a bison at Yellowstone National Park. Bison are powerful and unpredictable wild animals, and according to the National Park Service (NPS) are responsible for more injuries at Yellowstone than any other animal – including wolves, bears, and snakes. This particular incident […]
An adult moose can weigh over 2,000lb and move at speeds up to 25mph, so you don’t want to get on their bad side – especially not for a photo. On a recent visit to Yellowstone, one hiker filming a herd of moose in Round Prairie was surprised to spot two of the huge animals […]
CHANDLER, N.C. – A wildlife refuge has happy news to report two weeks after a disturbing video of a group of people pulling bear cubs out of a tree to take selfies went viral. The Appalachian Wildlife Refuge has been taking care of the orphaned cub and said she is now stabilized. Responding to a […]
One of the biggest privileges of being a primatologist is spending time in remote locations with monkeys and apes, living near these animals in their habitats and experiencing their daily lives. As a 21st-century human, I have an immediate impulse to take pictures of these encounters and share them on social media. Social media can […]
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A member of the Proud Boys extremist group who took selfies in the Senate gallery during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and once told a judge he would “still do it all over again” was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison, federal prosecutors said. Marc Anthony Bru, 44, of Vancouver, Washington, was also […]
I mean, I’ll just come out and say it: it’s pretty tempting to laugh out loud at the tourists who fell off their gondola into the canal in Venice last week because they just wouldn’t stop taking selfies. Their gondolier had apparently asked them to sit down and quit all that dangerous posing, but they […]