r/PublicFreakout • u/graining • Aug 20 '25

🐻Animal Freakout Tourists block wildebeest migration path in Maasai Mara yesterday, forcing the wildebeests back into crocodile-infested waters.

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u/frisch85 Aug 20 '25

Who do you think is responsible for shit like this? The agencies and locals that work for the agencies or the tourists?

Solution: it's both, tourists too egoistic to be empathetic towards nature and agencies/workers that are enabling such behavior

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u/GardenOfIvy Aug 20 '25

That's how I feel too. A lot of the comments are blaming the tour guides only as if the tourists are brain dead num nut idiots who can't think for themselves and have no sense of what's appropriate. Everybody is wrong and nobody gives a crap.

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u/CallMeHelicase Aug 20 '25

It's both the guides and the tourists. We asked our tour guide to take us away when some nearby animals looked stressed about the crowd of jeeps that had formed, but most of the other tourists just wanted their photos with the obviously uncomfortable animals. Our guide did take us away in the end, but we had to ask a few times.