Don’t: Disrespect the Wildlife
Since tourists have been flooding national parks in record numbers recently—and you might be one of them—here’s a few pieces of parktiquette (park etiquette) to remember before you go: take your trash with you, be polite to the blatantly overworked staff, and stay away from the animals.
That last one might be pretty obvious to some of you, but there’s still far too many cases of people getting too touchy. Case in point: in 2016, a tourist visiting Yellowstone Park got gored by one of the park’s many bison while trying to snap a selfie. Thankfully, her injuries weren’t too bad, but—as one park ranger told CNN at the time—she was the fifth case that season of someone getting too handsy with these hulking, aggressive beasts. Hell, the park reported three cases of bison-based injuries in the last month alone, which shows we clearly haven’t learned anything. Reader, I assure you, no selfie (no matter how sick) is worth being rammed head-on and tossed in the air by a 1,000 pound wall of muscle.
