A tourist tried to avoid a wild animal in a national park and got in a car accident. According to a press release issued by the Death Valley National Park in California, two tourists from Switzerland were in a campervan on October 28 when the driver saw the spider and slammed on the brakes. The spider, according to the park’s statement, “walked away unscathed.”While tarantulas are just one of the many wild animals found in Death Valley – the country’s hottest and driest national park – they are not the most frequently spotted. Earlier this year, staff at Yellowstone National Park were forced to euthanize a bison calf after a visitor tried to pick up the animal. This week, a section of the Blue Ridge Parkway national park in North Carolina was closed after multiple incidents of “visitors feeding and attempting to hold a young bear.”The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros.

Source: CNN November 02, 2023 12:06 UTC