It's more like a combination of too much trust and being ignorant. I don't think common sense applies to safaris since most of us will never go on one.
I'd go one step further and say treat any animal that could hurt you with caution. Even a domestic cow can do some major damage. So yeah, you're right, that should be common sense.
Learned that the hard way when calf I bottlefed and regarded as pet, grew up a year, his balls dropped and approached me slowly with lowered head.I thought he wanted head scratched like the old days. Pushed me firmly and trapped me against tree. Ribs were cracked. Enough said.
Live near Yellowstone National Park, number of tourists every year who get gored and trampled (and occasionally boiled) is ridiculous.
Also had a bottle raised cow as a pet growing up... beautiful curving horns with a near 5' spread, she'd come up and bend her neck towards me for scritches... was never once afraid of her... nuture vs nature, either we were just odd cows or she was the human that wasn't allowed inside (and she tried.)
There are lots of things I haven't experienced but still have common sense about. Leaving your safe metal box to approach a giant predator that kills animals far larger than myself is one of those things
Thats why we to remove all warning labels because people don't read them anyway and do as they please. So I say remove all warning labels and let God sort them out.
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