'Rare species' not seen in the area for 50 years spotted on Arizona trail camera

No, it's more that the so called "Journalists" have directives from their editors and corporate overlords to never link to any external content that might see people who could be reading the article and thus served ads leave the site. It's purely profit motivated, and results in long winded articles describing a video where just simply watching the video itself would be infinitely more useful / informative.

It's annoying, but it looks like the original story came from The Charlotte Observer and was distributed through Tribune Content Agency, a syndication agency.

That probably limits the embeds in the story. You also need to get permission to show the video (at least reputable sources will seek permission from the original creator). Phys.org might not be contractually or logistically able to get those permissions and add the video to the page.

In this case, perhaps. But what I'm complaining about is much more broad than that: what I see so often in modern "journalism" is they'll spew a bunch of words about something, but photographs of whatever they're referring to are conspicuously absent, or there's not nearly enough to properly supplement the commentary. It shouldn't be hard to take a handful of decent photos and attach them to the article, but for some reason, many articles I see lately just don't have the number of photographs that seem justified. It's even worse these days when you consider the zero-cost of photography. 50+ years ago it made sense for there to be few, if any, photographs: they were expensive to take (film, developing), and operating a camera took some training and skill (you needed a proper 35mm camera for print-quality photos, and a manual SLR isn't something any idiot knows how to use effectively). Now, any smartphone will take thousands of photos, and any idiot can take photos good enough to be printed, so there's really no excuse. And printing costs are zero too: I'm guessing it cost extra money to print photos 50+ years ago in magazines and newspapers, but now it's all digital so there's no incremental cost to include more photos.

And that's just photos. Video is pretty easy and free too, now that we have YouTube.

Because homo sapiens have killed off all other competing humanoid species in the last ~100,000 years.

Survival of the fittest ensures that if some species survived, they have to be specialized in avoiding humans.

If we had a sense of intelligence, why would we want to deal with... Us? Humanity has shown a considerable skill at eliminating other species, and a tendency to eliminate ourselves anytime we encounter something slightly different.

If you were in a forest, would you pick the bear or the man?

> Why would it want to hide in the forest?

They are are plenty of actual humans that are isolationist. From the Amish, to the Sentinelese, to the Pintupi, plenty of peoples have purposefully curbed contact.

It could be intelligent and still pick a bad strategy.

> which he apparently took on his travels!!

He definitely did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babou_(ocelot):

“In the 1960s, Babou was frequently seen with Dalí, who claimed to have been given the wild ocelot by the head of state of Colombia. Dalí had always been a cat lover and had an interest in exotic animals. He enjoyed a visual pun and would sometimes wear a cat pattern or coloured coat when travelling with Babou. In 1969, he was photographed leaving a Paris metro station with an anteater on a lead.

For a time in the 1960s, Dalí was more often than not accompanied by Babou. In a restaurant in Manhattan, although Babou's leash was tethered to the table, a fellow diner became quite alarmed until Dalí assured her that Babou was an ordinary cat “painted over in an op art design." On another occasion, when Babou and Dalí were visiting a gallery in Paris, Babou "made a nuisance" on some valuable 17th-century lithographs. Dalí claimed that the connection with him could only increase their value and the dealer increased the price of the lithographs by 50%. Dalí also agreed to sell the dealer a batch of his lithographs to placate him.

In 1970, Robert Wernick reported in Life magazine that Babou had a younger companion named Bouba who were led into the hotel Meurice on a leash by one of Dali's assistants and made sick by the hotel's revolving doors. The Meurice was a luxury hotel in Paris since 1815, where Dalí was a regular guest for 30 years in its best known suite, the Royal Suite, which had been home to King Alfonso XIII during his exile from Spain. Writing in his memoirs, the actor Carlos Lozano (a friend of Dalí) stated, “I only saw the ocelot smile once, the day it escaped and sent the guests at the Meurice scurrying like rats for cover.”

Babou also accompanied Dalí on a transatlantic crossing on the SS France.”*