In the footage, a man catches a large shark on a fishing rod and then brings the animal ashore for tourists to pose for photos with the animal.
A crowd of beachgoers can then be seen cheering and taking photos with the shark. After the tourists have taken selfies with the animal, the man then proceeds to carefully ease the shark back into the water.In a 2017 report, researchers at World Animal Protection analyzed wildlife selfies on social media and discovered a 292% increase in the number of wildlife selfies posted on Instagram between 2014 and 2017.
A “good” wildlife selfie was described as a picture where there is no contact between an animal and a human, and the animal is not being restrained or held in captivity to be used as a photo prop. In some individual cases, the compulsion of people to pose for photographs with wild animals has caused direct harm to the creatures.on Great Blasket Island in County Kerry, Ireland, after dragging the animal from the ocean so they could take a selfie with it.
The couple picked up the seal pup from the beach and then hurled it into the ocean before pulling the young animal back to land so they could hold it and take a photo with it. However, as the newborn pup was less than three weeks old, the animal was unable to swim and died during their pursuit to hold it for a selfie.
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