Human-Animal Encounters That Went Horribly Wrong

Taking selfies close vast and risky untamed life. Toying with snakes. Battling kissing bugs with flame.

Here and there when individuals cooperate calmly with creatures, their conduct is wrong, intentionally provocative, not well educated or thoughtless, and this can have cataclysmic or even lethal results. The results of such experiences — which regularly result in individuals or creatures enduring damage or even demise — appear to be all the more shocking in light of the fact that they could have effectively been kept away from, had the human members honed somewhat more sound judgment.