A man who got to within several yards of a group of juvenile wolves in Yellowstone National Park was being stupid and disrespectful but wasn’t in much real danger, a wolf biologist said.

A video of the Oct. 6 incident went viral this week after it was posted recently on the “ Yellowstone National Park: Invasion of the Idiots!” social media site.

A common assumption was that the footage showed a “pack” of wolves closing in, perhaps planning to kill and devour the unidentified man.

But that isn’t what was really going on, biologist Doug Smith, who led the wolf program in Yellowstone National Park for nearly three decades, told Cowboy State Daily.

It was a few juvenile wolves who approached the man more out of curiosity than anything else, said Smith, who had viewed the video.

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