people want to have their disney princess moment and don't care about the consequences

Please don't change the current title of the video 🙏

"Wild animal are perfectly capable of finding their own food. They don't need our help in finding food" you are absolutely correct sir

Apparently this doesn’t apply to NYC rats that eat pizza and popcorn etc. They just keep multiplying.

The biggest part that gets me is that the humans who are doing this receive little to no punishment while it’s the animals getting put down for simply following their survival instincts.

There’s a reason it’s called WILDlife. Leave them alone.

All my life I've been told not to feed wild animals or leave human food behind but no one ever explained why, this video explained PERFECTLY so thanks for that. Reminds me of my cat i used to let him live outside 100% of the time but when his leg got injured and we took him inside he lost his wild survival skills so he is an inside cat now.

My neighbour used to put loads of bird seed and peanuts out, and the consequence of that was a winter with mice in the attic, under the floorboards, in the wall cavity. New neighbour and it took until the second winter before we stopped getting all the gnawing and scratching and squeaking noises that would keep us awake. The place must have been full of old seed stores.

Inviting predators to live closer to humans is like inviting a known kleptomaniac to a party and being surprised when everyone's missing something. Do you get mad at the thief or get mad at yourself for hanging out with a known thief?

Most human food isn't good for us either

I live in a small town in Idaho. We have an apartment complex filled with elderly people...mostly women. We have a deer herd that hangs out there due to the large grass fields in and around the apartments. However, even when told by Fish and Game to Not Feed the deer...some of the old ladies won't stop. One of the old lady fed a fawn some corn flakes. The poor thing ended up with fatal diarrhea....it laid on it's side for several days under a pine tree with crap covering it back side and kicking from stomach cramps. Fish and Game, finally came and put it to sleep, when they decided it was too weak to recover and the doe basically gave up on it. The deer have enough grass that they don't need any food, even in the winter...they know how to dig down through the snow and get to the grass.

I've been a warden in a french alpine national park for 12 years. Situation can be even worse than presented here. I've seen so many diseases on ibex, wild boars, marmots, foxes and even birds... When you come across an animal asking for food, it doesn't mean it needs it. It means it's addicted to it already, why giving it more? It will only lead it to fatal issue... I hope people looking at this video will keep it in mind! Much useful clip! Thanks a lot!

When he said "it seems this stuff isn't good for everyone, except for humans", I chuckled remembering the obesity rates.

I rescued a wolf cub. I was allowed to keep it but it had to be desexed, be in a special containment, had to have a tracking collar on it, and is not allowed to stay out for the night. I had to sign all sorts of contracts. But, Mighty Rayzar had been with me for five years now.

I really am loosing my faith in humanity rn. In Japan where I am currently, so many people are leaving out their trash, as the towns in the mountains are greatly expanding. The habitat of the wild bears are shrinking, and yet some locals decide to leave food for them outside. It’s no mystery why there are literally bear attack news almost every day. And when these things happen, the bears are hunted down and killed. To make matters even worse, the subspecies of asiatic black bear in Japan are considered threatened, and the sheer stupidity of humans is causing a species decline. I 100% agree with this video, and I am really glad that there are people out there who are trying to spread awareness about these things❤.

A ranger once told me “a fed bear is a dead bear”. I’ve never forgotten.

Even the trolls of KZfaq agree with the title...Feeding wild animals, even from genuine care, is a complete life risk and is genuinely stupid.

My brother just told me the other day about that one man who lived alongside bears. Key word lived. He was happily befriending them and probably feeding them too, until one day a hungry bear he thought of as one of his best buddies came close and ate him to prepare for the next winter.

👩🏻Wow, this video is a must for all. I have given bread to pigeons and squirrels. But you're right, it messes up the wild animals, normal way of survival. Great video and the message is loud and clear. I never knew feeding them, was causing more harm, than good. Thank you for education me.

It's called habituated. A young boy here in Louisiana had his arm completely ripped off by an alligator bc of this. They shot the gator cut its stomach open in a attempt to get his arm back and surgically reattach it but were unsuccessful. He was lucky to have survived. The gator wasn't so lucky.

Some human food is not even beneficial for humans. Hi and greetings from Germany.

Polar bears are actually not afraid of people at all, in fact they are one of the few animals that see humans as prey and will actively track and hunt humans to try to eat them

Like in every ecosystem, adding or removing something, there will always be serious consequences

Very good video! It’s true! A woman left food for raccoons ! In her cottage, but beers found it and started breaking into other people’s houses looking for food and had to be 😩 terminated 😢

In Japan, these two influencers were purposefully camping out in a forest that had warning signs of bear sightings (which they claimed they didn’t see) because they wanted to film a bear on camera. They pretended to be surprised when the bear stumbled onto their camp (because it smelled their food) filmed themselves running away being scared of the bear. The bear ate their food and over the next few days, that bear showed up around human settlements looking for more food. The town had to euthanize the bear because of that. Worse of all, that bear had cubs too :( even though those two influencers were called by the town officials and other content creators, they still kept the video up and pretended that nothing happened.

Thanks for educating me. Though I rarely go on trips where I would see wildlife, the times that I have, I have considered feeding them, thinking that’d be helping them. I’ve also fed geese and squirrels bread, feeling sorry for them. So I’ve now learned that it does more harm than good. I think most people like me who have fed wild animals think we’re doing something good and saving the animal from hunger so videos like this are extremely important. I admit I was one of these people and will definitely stop moving forward. It’s not like I feed wild animals regularly or anything but there have been rare times where I have “helped” them not knowing I’m making a negative impact on their lifespan and health. Sorry, animals.

4:44 "Where is my tent?" **suspiciously tent shaped bear looking at me**

A European tourist once touched a wild lion in my country's(Tanzania) Serengeti national park and the video went viral. Its a shame the govt just ended up giving a statement instead of prosecuting him!

Polar Bears don't fear humans to begin with. If they get the opportunity to munch on one of us they will do so without hesitation.

Human: Hey, where did our tent go? 4:43 Suspiciously tent shaped bear: uhh idk

My husband and I were backpacking in the Grand Canyon years ago and had permits to camp for several days at several sites. On the descent we stopped at a stone rest station and day hikers were feeding the squirrels underneath posted signs not to feed wildlife. When several squirrels started climbing up our backpacks while they were still on us and attempting to get into them very aggressively, the others thought it was cute. No, it’s not cute to have an aggressive wild animal several inches away from your head, neck and face. This was in the late 70’s when more people respected posted signs so I’m sure that poor behavior is rampant. In Yosemite, deer were several feet from our car and people were trying to feed them. I have plenty of wildlife in my area and I don’t want them to become friends with them as wild animals can become unpredictable.

Uh... The overweight "squirrel" in the feeder is actually a chinchilla in a box most likely in its enclosure. Man, you guys used to be on point... What happened?

One time fishing in the Okefenokee, I was constantly followed by a very large bull 'gator. I was not alone but every time I spoke he would move toward me so I had to move away. I can only surmise that someone with a voice similar to mine was feeding it regularly. I was constrained to report the behavior to the local game warden and they were forced to hunt it down. It is pure ignorance to feed wild animals, you are teaching them to come to humans and associate them with food. "Feeding animals" also includes dumping your food scraps in the lake or swamp or in the woods. Be conscious of what your actions could lead to. Know outdoor etiquette. Be smart and stay safe.

Oh dear god, the intro alone put me in a state of rage. And here's the thing, if "human artificial food" does this to MOST animals, that should give you a clue how bad they are for humans.

'Human food' isn't good for humans either.

It's not that the people are bad, it's that they don't know any better. Thanks for informing people!

I had this video (KZfaq channel:"James Blackwood", Video Title: "Mobbed by raccoons (25) Tuesday night 03, Nov 2020" video has 40 million views and I can only imagine the damage that it has done nationwide to local raccoon populatios.), it was an elderly man that was feeding about 30 raccoons daily, and this was exactly what I was thinking, and unfortunately in the comments there wasn't a single person that stated why feeding wild animals is bad, everyone was just "oh the raccoons are so cute!". But everything that you've said in this video was True in that video, the raccoons were fighting with each other and not looking for their own food, instead loitering on his property, looking for a handout.

That bear n the thumbnail would eat that human if it was that hungry lol

Respectfully, I watched and enjoyed the entire video. I usually don't feed wildlife (although I do let my kids feed birds, fish, or a stray cat from time to time) for what it's worth but for different reasons than what was mentioned. I'm not trying to upset anyone or engage in a heated online debate. I have my opinions like everyone else. I hope everyone has a great week. Thanks again for the video. It was very interesting from start to finish.

The real problem is that the animals are starving to death. What choice do they have? If they stay where they are they starved if they come near humans they are killed. It's a no-win situation for the animals, and the humans don't care enough to change it.

sounds like not even we should be eating our food we need help

This whole video is an alarming message at how unhealthy the foods we consume really are. I hope this will be an awakening call for many of us.

Sounds like our food is as detrimental to us as it is to animals

Thanks for this vid WATOP, hope this is spread so people can just ruin their own lives instead of everything as always

A human fed me once... now I have some specter chasing after me trying to kill me. Don't accept food from people!!!

Commenting to feed the algorithm, this video needs to be seen by as many people as possible

The irony of putting down an animal for interacting with a human instead of letting it die naturally weather because of starvation or not it’s the wild they will figure it out

Thank you for making such video because we get more examples shown from the aftermath of feeding wild animals. I still haven't fed any wild animal yet because I stand to the rules. Now I have more reasons not to do so.

KZfaq better not take this down. DON'T FEED WILD ANIMALS

In my experience, both from my field of study (Animal Behaviour studies), 3 years as a zookeeper, along with years and years of study in zoology, people are ridiculously misinformed about animals and wildlife in general. People simply either don't know or don't care (often both). People can barely identify animals as they see them and their knowledge of a lot of animals goes about as far as something they heard or saw in a Disney movie. It's pretty sad. People can be very ignorant of the unpredictability of many animal species and the dangers posed by them. Add on top of the fact people anthropomorphize (Give human traits/emotions to animals) animals at almost every turn, people don't stop to think about the consequences of their actions or don't take the time to inform themselves on the truth of things. WIldlife is made to be admired from a distance, without human intervention. This may vary among certain species. But if you don't know, why not have the common sense of playing it safe? And yeah, do NOT FEED wild animals! As indicated in the video, you're doing more harm than good. Thank you for spreading more awareness and knowledge!

Wild animal looking for a hand out Me covered in blood with the food it wants- "go ahead... TAKE IT FROM ME...."

In Finland we have birds that stay here during the cold harsh winter, and the advice on feeding them is- if your going to do it, stick to it. They become depended of you. I'd imagine that the same thing applies to other animals. And if it's for a longer period; they lose their natural instincts to find their own food. Edit: it's fun to watch this because the human food isn't suitable for anyone- not even humans. "apple a day keeps doctor's away." doesn't quite ring the truth. We just don't have the same extreme environment as animals to survive, but yeah... white bread and cereal are bad for you.

I sometimes feed the spiders in my garden, if I notice they haven’t caught anything in a while. Two of them ended up mating, I certainly didn’t intend to be a spider matchmaker

Imagine a space alien feeding us and then other space aliens Put Us To Sleep.

​GREAT informative and enjoyable video Thank you (big time) !!! Its another KEY issue that Humans have destroyed almost ALL their natural and local food source environments... Humans vitally 🙏 need a healthy link to NATURE but it's not VALUED by enough people atm...

Thank you! Ive been posting this message for years!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

a basic summary is that human food can cause dangerous animals to come looking for humans and they could get mad if they aren't given food. weight gain entering populated areas less self sufficiency on their own fighting other animals for food negative changes in gut biome the lack of hunting and gathering makes it so the offspring aren't taught how to hunt/gather lack of necessary nutrients feeding a wild animal and then just leaving it is not how we domesticated dogs

As native american and lover of untrouched nature, I'm greatful for this video, you've earned my family and I greatest repects for your video contribution and explantion to this problem as I'm tried of explain it.

I feed 10 racoons in the city . It's a hard life finding food and somewhere to sleep. The best pet I ever had was a wild pigeon I saved from a hawk.. Smart, clean he took a bath daily , slept in a dog carrier and could go outside when he wanted to. I will always help animals stuck in this cement hell.

Thank you for this information. It is sad how something so innocent can be so brutal. Haven't really fed wild animals, but it is very good to know the affect it will have if I were to do that. Will do my best to avoid that in the future.

When you're talking about the obese bears, it's not "human food," it is called "FDA approved" food that does the damage

Quick! We need to feed our politicians now!

11:35 that isnt a rat, thats a red squirrel 😂

8:29 Nope it’s not good for Anyone not even humans

I chucked some big night crawlers over a bush in a city park to see if some geese would eat it. They stared at the worm on the ground wondering what the hell it was and waddled away. The feeding of wild geese with human food has gotten so bad that they're literally not eating earthworms off the ground............... If people really want to help wild animal populations they should plant wild sunflowers, corn, and plant native fish eggs in local ponds instead of feeding bread to birds.

Introverts like us that spend everyday at home, are watching this video. People that need to watch this video are out there doing all sort of activities every day and will never understand why they need to stop feeding wild animals.

This needs to air on national TV 👆 its the only way to educate people if they love animals so much

I know that feeding wild birds isn't always 100% good, but as far as I know it is not generally avicidal provided it is sunflower seeds and the like. When there is a bird pandemic, especially in warm weather, it's often advised to stop feeding for a while.

My father told me a year ago that in the resort we had recently visited (in Hurghada, Egypt), a man was bitten by a reef shark. It was reported that this shark was repeatedly being fed by visitors of the place, which one really shouldn't do. This led to the shark habitually seeking out humans expecting food. The man might have provoked a bite due to a panic response, I don't really know though . To clarify, I forgot whether it was that resort or the bay Sharm El Naga or another place we've visited, but the point is that shark attacks boil down to human error, such as treating those sharks inconsiderately.

I think it's perfectly fine to feed birds in your garden, or swans and ducks in rivers or lakes. As long as you feed them the appropriate foods. It is actually super beneficial to the birds during spring when they're all nesting. I am from the UK though, so the rules are a little different here. No bears crocks or wolves 🤷 Edit: If you have a dog, you can gather up its fur and tie it to your bird feeder. They will take it and use it for their nests.

Well, that's educational, so thank you. I knew you shouldn't feed wild animals, but didn't know why, now at least I have some fax to back myself up if the topic ever arises.

Sometimes i think that Aliens have the same rule about humans : dont interact with them or they'll start asking for new tech and answers for shit 😂

Animals die to the garbage we feed them but remember all this stuff is perfectly fine and healthy for humans...

First place i ever saw an obese bear was BEAR COUNTY park or whatever in South Dakota. The owners of the place were feeding them wonder bread to the point their stomachs are dragging on the ground. The whole place is a drive-through park that lets tourists feed them anything.... the place is disgusting. Sad to see how little humans know.

My mother used to do this stupidity She thought she was the savior to raccoons She eventually was feeding dozens I told her how many ways this was a bad idea and not helping the raccoons She persisted up until she went into nursing home

I've been propagating and planting the local Native North American Persimmons for my deer. Found an old growth tree deep in a swamp. I've found more spread by the deer since then. But it's a good way to make sure they have a decent food source and have no interaction with me.

Had a young fox roaming the area. It was quite tame, curious, sometimes sat like a dog watching people. I already had heard, that this may cause problems and wanted to scare it away in order to save it. I didn't. About a week later I heard from a neighbour about its demise. It had been comfortable with humans being close, had been fed, ate leftovers from the local fast food restaurant. Until someone seemingly had enough of it and poisoned the poor thing. I feel guilty even today, maybe 6 or 7 years later. Had I thrown a fire cracker at it, it might have lived. There sure are foxes hiding somewhere, eating garbage. Difference is that they hide.

I feel like all of this can apply to humans eating human food.

Thank you for making this video, i hate it so much when people think they're a disney character and know best

Thank you so much for this video. I love animals too and would love to feed them and take a cute selfie with me feeding them but I was taught not to feed wild animals for just these reasons. Great to see such awareness in this video and in the comments.

The fact that bears become overweight and more inactive just from human food, really shows how unhealthy and processed our food really is..

There’s some idiot in town that has a “slow down, community pet deer in area” and I’ve twice taped over it “the deer are WILD, not a community pet. More people get killed in a year by deer than by bears and sharks combined”

All I did was give the polar bears a Coca-Cola They seem to like it in the commercial

As a hunter in Germany i'm completly with you. We had lots of problems with wild pigs in some cities and people who feed them, those pigs are really dangerous, they can literally kill you. The next are racoons which were feed by people 'cause they're "so cute". Please do not feed wild animals. In Germany you can also pay hefty fines for feeding doves or ducks.

As a former employee of a company in Grand canyon... The squirrel is indeed considered the deadliest/most dangerous animal there. Bites are frequent, rabies is a thing... As are other diseases like the literal plague. Fear the friendly tree rat! (Not actually a tree rat, separate species, but the nickname fits...)

"I dont care if this video will be banned" Finally someone here for principal, not just for money.

Let the bears get fed, less over population and less hungry bears. It our fault they're fucking threatened.

I genuinely did not know until I watched this video. Thank you for the information.

You are a brave soul my friend. Telling the truth on the internet like that. You absolute mad lad

I was fishing on a bayou here in Louisiana. I watched a woman pull in to a parking lot across the bayou from were i was. Sh pulled a trash bag out of the truck of her car and started dragging it to the water. I literally stopped fishing to see a couple of things. 1. I wanted to make sure it wasnt a human body. 2. To see if she was feeding the gator that had been seen. A couple of dogs have come up missing in the last month. Sure enough, i see her start calling something. So i took my phone and started recording. I took photos of her plate and her. And just like i thought, she was calling a gator. She starts pulling what looks like a deer skeleton out and throwing it to the gator. I screamed across the bayou, hey woman, you cant do that, its illegal. The woman told me to worry about myself and get out of her business. I said ok, so i called the cops. She left before the cops got there and they were happy to see all the evidence i had. They made me E-Mail the video. 3 days later it was on the news. What happened to the woman? Oh she got probation and that was it!!! What happened to the gator. Oh, they made her call it to the bank. When the gator got to the bank, a gun shot was heard. No more gator in that bayou. There were some upset people and they talked about the gator never bothered anyone. Well it only takes 1 time and someone loses a child. I brought my 3 year old son with me to that spot. So yeah, that is hitting very very close to home. Personally i think that woman should have spent a minimum of 6 months in jail for it. Flordia doesnt play that crap. Anyway tbis video is spot on. Thanks for posting it.

Not feeding wild animals should be common sense. I live in Queens. During the pandemic, there were cases of squirrels actually attacking people in NY, because they were desperate for food and expected it from humans.

Send this video to all National and state parks. Probably wouldn’t hurt to send to all schools.

Rats have no problem eating our food.

Thank you for calling it out. I live in the mountains in a tourist trap community where people are constantly trying to feed the deer and elk. They have become dependent on dumpster digging and the people with carrots and hay. They become docile, but simultaneously aggressive, particularly about food. I've heard of three accounts of people being attacked by elk while trying to feed them in my area. One was a little kid who got kicked in the head, and another was a local lady who died from her injuries. I've personally been kicked by a deer over a plate of vegetables many years ago. Last time I give a wild animal food from my hands, but more importantly, filling their guts with anything other than what they graze is a losing scenario for the deer and the environment that relies on their persistent upkeep of undergrowth. Forest fires are made a bigger issue when grazers don't keep the grass and brush down.

it's crazy how many people feed wild animals bread, even though it's so horrible for almost every animal out there

All the corn we eat has been genetically modified, it cannot self sow. Even here on the River Murray people feed the pelicans which makes them aggressively seek food from tourists. They eventually get put down.

I'd be too scared to feed wild animals but that's a good thing I've now learned, I had no clue that they were getting put down because people kept feeding them

Over a long course of time feeding wolves, we eventually domesticated them into dogs. They were probably the first animal we domesticated and could be attributed our success. Although eating processed food is probably bad for any animal, even humans.

Just because you got lucky with your car doesn't change the fact BMW is not reliable. They break and once they break even fhe simplest thing are extremely expensive because of its engineering and parts are also expensive. That is the problem. Reliability is more than simply how quickly parts fail.

This was more comprehensive in information than most. I understood most of it already, but got some more info here. People need to be made aware of deer feeder problems. That was a new one to me, but it makes absolute perfect sense in all aspects from disease spread to extra fighting to overeating of corn. My grandpa had a dairy cow lost to her forcing her way into getting to the feed. Sad as hell to lose her like that. She did it while they were away for just a few hours. Polar bears are not afraid of humans. We are on the menu. The only wild animal I fed was a racoon live trapped at my parent's house for relocation. I gave it some meat and some water because it was having to be in the trap for a bit. It really did want and need the water it drank, and it growled the entire time. It was a really pissed off raccoon. It ran away fast when released. Trapping it made it fear humans, and they thrive on people food and want to make use of people dwelling areas, just like opossums. He had to go. I see people on videos in neighborhoods drawing up and feeding a whole bunch of mean raccoons off of their back porches. What are they thinking? I don't see anything wrong with providing water sources for animals in drought. There were some women who were fined for doing that, but when we cause the shortage and block their access to water in so many ways, and water is needed faster than food, I think a quiet little pool provided here and there is decent. It's not the same as feeding. They know water dries up, comes and goes, and they don't think we provide it. Herds of deer migrating from the wooded suburbs across the freeways in search of a water source could be dangerous for us as well as them.