Are Animals open to bribery?

I know several places where wild living animals live very close to and with human beings and therefore are willing to come pretty close for a little Snack. On some of these places you still have to gain the trust of t he animals and they slowly come closer and closter but on others they are open to bribery. If you have a special food for them they will come pretty close and pose for you camera. There is a place in Austria where you can get pretty close to mammots and really take fabioulous pictures of them. To show them you are no harm you only have to give them something they like to eat and wait for some minutes in front of you. Don't take any fast movements and keep calm, as soon as they know that you are no harm to them they will come closer and closer.

Wild Marmot in Front of my lens. Picture: Florian Glechner.

This marmot in this picture is just centimeters away from me, way less than a meter and it knows that i don't do any harm so it takes the carrot and eats it without leaving. The experience is much better like in a Zoo, but still you know in your heart these animals still live in wildlife but because of so many people feeding them they probably don't behave like wildlife animals anymore. This always hurts my haert a bit but i know otherwise it would be much more difficult to take a picture of them, so in a way i also like it.

I always try to give them some healthy fruits or vegetables, i know it is probably not the best but way better than some processed food like bread and chips that some people are feeding them.

Marmot in the mountains. Picture: Florian Glechner.

To answer the Question from the titel. Yes as soons as animals know they can get some easy food from human beeings they are very open to bribery, but this is most of the time not for their good. I try to not to exxagerate the human impact by feeding them food like vegetables and fruits that they might find in nature. I never feed any processed food like bread. I know that it is not the best for the animals and they should find their own food in the nature but on some places it is not possible anymore, because they are so used to human feeding.

My friend Stefan only centimeters from the marmot. Picture: Florian Glechner.