Here's how NOT to treat wildlife. Florida Beachgoer Drags Wild Shark By Its Tail For Photo Op [View all]

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** grey shirt buy pulls it back into the water after selfies over**

Florida Beachgoer Drags Wild Shark By Its Tail For Photo Op
Here's how NOT to treat wildlife.

They are not photo ops, people. They're animals that deserve better.



In another instance of beachside picture seekers going too far, a man was videotaped in Palm Beach, Florida roughly pulling a shark out of the water by the tail and then posing with it as onlookers clicked away, the Brevard Times reported.

The video (above), posted to Facebook by WPTV Channel 5 reporter Ashleigh Walters, quickly attracted comments ranging from "idiot" to "Someone should drag that guy around in the water just for pictures."

One animal conservation group was quick to condemn the incident.

"Removing a shark from the ocean for the sake of a selfie is highly cruel," Elizabeth Hogan, U.S. Oceans and Wildlife Campaign Manager of World Animal Protection, told The Huffington Post.

"This animal would have been suffocating and unable to breathe the entire time it was kept out of the water," she added. "Many shark populations have declined by more than 90 percent over the last 40 years; posing with sharks on land for photographs needlessly jeopardizes their lives and well-being."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/florida-beachgoer-shark-photo-op_us_56cb7165e4b0928f5a6cbed7

Video of the incident shows the shark thrashing near the shore before an unidentified man wearing multi-colored swim trunks grabs its tail and yanks it onto the sand. The animal continues to struggle until the man holds it down for a few photos.

The one-and-a-half-minute video ends with a different man dragging the shark back toward the water where the waves meet the shore. Ashleigh Walters, the WPTV reporter who recorded the video, wrote in the description that after the video ended the shark was taken into a deeper area where it didn't resurface for several minutes.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/gone-viral/os-man-pulls-shark-water-pictures-20160222-story.html