Tourists terrified when bear opens car door at Yellowstone

A FAMILY of tourists got a little too close to nature when an overly friendly bear walked up to their car and opened the door at Yellowstone National Park.

The bear somehow manages to opened the car door as youngsters in the back seat scream with terror. Picture: Nature Captures/YouTube

A FAMILY of tourists got a little too close to nature when an overly friendly bear casually wandered up to their car and opened a door at Yellowstone National Park in the US.

Footage recently uploaded to YouTube shows the incredible encounter between the bear and the family on the side of a road.

The family can be seen taking photos of the bear as it comes closer to the car window — but it’s not long before the creature gets too close for comfort.

“Dad, the bear’s right next to us,” a nervous voice rings out from the back seat.

The clever bear somehow manages to open the car door by the handle as the children let out bloodcurdling screams.

Smarter than the average bear. Picture: Nature Captures/YouTube

The man in the front seat manages to pull the door shut. Picture: Nature Captures/YouTube

The man in the front passenger seat calmly wrangles the door back from the bear and shuts it.

The incident is the latest in a string of bizarre incidents at Yellowstone National Park, which runs through the US states of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana.

Overnight, a Chinese tourist was fined $1400 after he walked off the boardwalk at the parks Mammoth Hot Springs area and broke through fragile rock crust to collect thermal water in a spring.

It comes just days after a tourist was killed when he wandered off a boardwalk and fell into a boiling hot, acidic spring.

And an especially controversial incident last month, a baby bison was euthanised after it was kidnapped by two Yellowstone tourists who thought it was “too cold” to be in the wild.

The father and son were branded “stupid” by authorities and fined $137 for touching wildlife.