Weeks after a baby dolphin died after it was passed along tourists to click pictures, another incident of human insensitivity towards innocent animals has come to light. This time, a Bulgarian tourist, who was visiting the Lake Ohrid with her friends, pulled a swan out of the waters to click a selfie with it.
Nake Batev, an eyewitness, who also clicked pictures of how the woman was manhandling the swan, just happened to pass by the shore.
I was just walking by when I noticed her posing and grabbing the swan for her friends to take the picture, it was just a second, and the next moment I was running and yelling for her to let go.Nake Batev told The Quint
After Batev’s intervention, the woman joined her friends and walked off. Although the Macedonia news agency reported that the swan was killed after the encounter, Batev told The Quint that it swam off after some time.
These incidents have been on the rise lately. In less than a month, a baby dolphin has died in Argentina, a peacock has been manhandled in China, and a shark has been forcibly pulled out of water in Florida – all because of the obsessive love of humans to click pictures.
The most tragic part of all these incidents is that the onlookers did nothing to stop such acts of cruelty, and in fact encouraged such behavior.
If only animals could talk!
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