A mountain goat in Alaska jumped into the ocean to get away from crowds snapping its picture, and the animal drowned when it couldn’t get back to land because of the crush of people on shore.
Alaska State Troopers say it’s imperative to give animals adequate space. That didn’t happen Saturday in downtown Seward, and troopers say in an online post that it “resulted in a wild animal dying for no cause.”
It comes amid a series of incidents of people getting too close to wildlife, including tourists in Yellowstone National Park who picked up a bison calf they thought was abandoned. It had to be euthanized.
In Alaska, troopers got a call about people harassing the goat and another about a large group following it onto the breakwater rocks.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
People can be so ignorant and cruel.
Thats why I have no respect for most people….If it were them in the ocean crying for help…..I would sit back snap some photos and have a cold one……..The species need to be thinned anyway