Moos<p>A recent study found that the elephants congregating near tourists at a Sri Lanka wildlife park’s boundary have developed “begging” behaviour and have become habituated to sugary foods, sometimes breaking through fences to continue being fed. So, creating risky close human-wildlife encounters. Why this is news I asked myself, it is already a well known fact, I thought.<br><a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/srilanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>srilanka</span></a> <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/elephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elephant</span></a> <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/tourists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tourists</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.newswise.com/articles/don-t-feed-the-animals-researchers-warn-of-risks-tied-to-wildlife-interactions/?sc=c6313" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newswise.com/articles/don-t-fe</span><span class="invisible">ed-the-animals-researchers-warn-of-risks-tied-to-wildlife-interactions/?sc=c6313</span></a></p>