Do large grazers get along with the public?

Free-roaming herds of large grazers exert great attraction on people: they offer a sense of wilderness experience. In many nature reserves where large grazers live, people are welcomed. Even off the beaten path. An encounter with the animals is highly likely to happen. Keeping the animals at a distance is key, especially when there are newborn foals and calfs present. A social herd, in which old and young animals, males and females live together, responds more calmly to the public, than a herd of only heifers, or a couple of females and a single bull. Animals growing up in social herds are taught by their families how to behave toward each other, but also how to behave towards the outside world. For example, bulls and stallions only fight with conspecifics for dominance in the herd. In general, they are way more concerned with each other, then they are with visitors passing by.