I guess if I was a liberal I’d try to tell the animal about my feelings. Since I’m not, I’d chuckle at the irony and walk away. Might snap a pic before leaving.
@seawulf575 That picture will be hard evidence that you happened across an endangered species under duress and did nothing but take a picture. The next thing you will know a black hood will be secured over your head, you will hear voices in another language you don’t understand and whisked away to a distant place never to be heard from again.
I’d ask someone with more knowledge than me about the situation. It would depend on the animal and the plant, what happens when the animal eats the plant (many plants propagate by having their fruit eaten and pooped out elsewhere), how endangered each is, etc.