Why feeding wild animals is a bad idea

By Roxanne Reid
You’re standing at the perimeter of one of the rest camps in our game reserves and you see someone throw his chop bone over the fence to lure a hyena or other animal. Do you join in and do the same, despite clear signs telling you not to? Or do you politely engage him to explain why feeding wild animals is a bad idea? Spotted hyenas will quickly learn that camp fences are a source of braai scraps Most of us who visit game reserves and national parks regularly know it’s...