#wildlife-safety

#wildlife-safety

Home to Grand Teton National Park, world-class ski slopes, and the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is a destination unlike any other. Victoria Gonzalez, lead Pathfinder at The Cloudveil, describes the region as "the intersection of wilderness and the resilient American spirit." In other words, it's somewhere travelers can go to experience a "flourishing cultural arts center with celebrated restaurants, a playground for year-round recreational opportunities ... and natural wonder."

Joan Heblack told ABC affiliate KGO-TV that she was walking in the Lucas Valley neighborhood of San Rafael when a squirrel seemingly came out of nowhere and attacked her leg, clawing and biting. It clamped onto my leg. The tail was flying up here. I was like: Get it off me, get off me!' Heblack said. Isabel Campoy also said she was attacked while walking in the same area.

"If you cut it open and the tissue is blue, you don't eat blue meat," said Bryan Flores, chief of Monterey county parks, regarding contaminated feral hogs.

Two female tourists from the UK and New Zealand were killed by an elephant while on a walking safari in South Luangwa national park in Zambia.