'Selfie bear' on the loose: Mexico authorities set non-lethal trap to relocate

Earlier this week, a video clip which shows a bear interrupting a girl’s selfie went viral on social media. This incident took place in Mexico’s Chipinque Ecological Park. Mexican authorities said that y had set up various n-lethal traps for bear in order to relocate it. 

bear's friendliness and its consequences 

Immediately after this, a petition on change.org got more than 135,000 signatures and calls for beer to be unharmed and left alone. It furr raised concern that people should be kept out of park because it is animal’s natural habitat. Also, because this is time of pandemic and animals can be harmed because of such carelessness. 

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video shows two girls walking in forest when bear comes and approaches m. bear stands on his hind legs and starts sniffing hair one girl. That is when girl takes out her camera to click a selfie and precious moment is captured. 

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After circulation of video, Chipinque Ecological Park issued a statement saying, it would take “strict measures” against those visitors who put ir lives and wildlife’s life at risk. statement said, ‘this type of approach by black bear to visitor is an abrmal behaviour caused by humans. interaction shown in video should have been avoided. What is indicated is to move away when detecting presence of bear and t get closer; however, we see that even person seeks to take a photo’.  statement furr stated that, “Given above, Chipinque will take strict measures against visitors who put ir life and / or wildlife at risk. Remember that Chipinque is a protected natural area, home to wild flora and fauna, so sighting of mammals is t unusual, and it is responsibility of visitor to stay alert during his visit, avoid getting close and report presence of a bear to our park rangers."

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