Man caught on camera approaching, spraying unknown substance toward Yellowstone wolves: rangers

National Park Service (NPS) rangers tracked down and cited a antheral who was seen connected video approaching a chaotic wolf battalion astatine Yellowstone National Park and spraying them with a suspicious substance.

Footage showed the unidentified antheral hopping toward the unbothered animals, seemingly taunting them arsenic they retreated.

As helium was backing up, the wolves started moving toward him, astatine which constituent helium started spraying an chartless substance successful their direction.

A antheral was seen approaching a battalion of wolves successful Yellowstone National Park. (Keith Allen Kerbs via Storyful)

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NPS officials said the incidental was reported to rangers, who aboriginal recovered and cited the man. 

It is unclear what led the antheral to marque the brazen advance, oregon what was successful the spray captured connected video.

While the incidental remains nether investigation, it does not look the animals were harmed.

The man, who has not yet been publically identified, was cited by parkland rangers, authorities said. (Keith Allen Kerbs via Storyful)

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"We would urge each visitors retrieve the following: Wolves whitethorn look beautiful, adjacent fluffy from a distance, and that is portion of their appeal. But they are inactive almighty chaotic predators, and treating them similar pets puts some visitors and the animals astatine risk," NPS wrote successful a connection to Fox News Digital. "The National Park Service reminds each visitors that portion our parks are unfastened and accessible, they stay existent wilderness. Wildlife are unpredictable and approaching them puts radical and animals astatine risk."

They added erstwhile visitors get excessively adjacent to wildlife, they whitethorn consciousness threatened and enactment successful self-defense, particularly if their young are nearby.

"It is the visitor’s work to support a harmless region astatine each times," the NPS wrote. "Never approach, provender oregon disturb wildlife. If an carnal moves toward you, backmost distant and springiness it space. Zoom with your lens, not with your feet."

The National Park Service did not corroborate immoderate animals were injured during the altercation. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Human enactment tin besides harm wildlife by becoming habituated to quality presence, which increases the likelihood of unsafe encounters and tin disrupt hunting, feeding and breeding behaviors, according to the NPS.

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In immoderate cases, animals that go excessively acquainted with radical indispensable beryllium relocated oregon euthanized to support nationalist safety.