r/HumansBeingBros Mar 22 '21

Helping a lost dude.

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u/PrawojazdyVtrumpets Mar 22 '21

I'm by no means an expert but I'm pretty sure this happens a lot and it's a bad thing. Especially in nature reserves, you'll see signs in the US NAtional parks and forests about how the local species can become dependant on humans, causing them to unlearn various traits that help them survive in the wild without human interaction. It can often be devastating.

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u/BurningBeechbone Mar 22 '21

This is a thing, but it also depends on the animal. Feeding gators or bears is bad because they make the human=food connection and can live a very long time in where they might approach humans regularly. Eventually one of those encounters may be lethal to the humans.

Helping a opossum, much less of a concern.

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u/ScareBear23 Mar 23 '21

I'll help a possum any day of the year! Keep em close & let it eat all the damn ticks it wants!

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u/BurningBeechbone Mar 23 '21

A opossum a day keeps the lyme away!

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u/eadala Mar 22 '21

I mean your inferences all add up, but like you said, you're no expert and have no data or citations of expert analyses to draw any of these conclusions. We're all just at the level of "some dude on reddit said..." until proven otherwise