Years ago I was driving through Algonquin Provincial Park in the Fall, in central Ontario, when I came around the corner on the deserted highway and saw a rental car pulled over to the side of the road. In the distance, a man with a video camera was making his way through a marsh toward a very large bull moose. This was in the height of the fall rut. The moose had stopped eating and had lowered its head, just watching the human approach. Behind the man, trudged his wife through the knee deep water with a young child in tow and an infant strapped onto her chest in a baby sling. I pulled over and yelled at them to pls get back to the car, that it will kill you. The man kept moving forward with his eye to his camera. His wife turned to me and gave me a lovely salute. You know the kind.
Sad that sometimes you can't save people from themselves. More sad that the animal is usually the one to pay in such a stupid, completely preventable encounter.