i mean they're not wrong. the point of handling animals safely is that you're not supposed to handle them unless you really absolutely have to. filming your tv show isn't really a good reason to be disturbing animals, like how could anyone justify touching and stressing out wildlife purely for money
every time you touch a wild animal you basically cause them to piss themselves in fear and trigger adrenaline releases all throughout their body and you can actually cause some animals like rodents to have heart attacks just by being near them. extraneously touching them isn't good