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I saw the baby bison that tourists tried to rescue. Here’s what you don’t know...
WashingtonPost.com ^ | 6/7/2016 | Deby Dixon

Posted on 06/08/2016 2:55:09 AM PDT by raybbr

GARDINER, Mont. — I met the bison calf that took a ride in an SUV early one evening as I drove west in Yellowstone National Park’s Lamar Valley, past the pullout known as “Picnic.” The late afternoon sun on a stormy landscape provided the light that we photographers dream of for shooting gorgeous mountains in the distance and wild animals on the horizon.

I spotted the calf near the road and all alone. It was crying out and seemed to be looking for its mother, but no other bison was anywhere close by. Instantly, I knew three things: The calf was orphaned or had become separated from its mother. The calf would not be adopted by another cow and could not survive alone, and so it was just a matter of time before it died or was killed. And I wanted a photo of that calf, in order to remember its short life.

Every year in Lamar Valley, we see bison calves by themselves, destined to perish. Their mothers might have died in childbirth, abandoned them or become separated during a river crossing. We watch as the calf runs from cow to cow, looking for its mother. We watch the other cows react with violence, particularly if the calf attempts to nurse. A wild bison cow will not adopt another’s calf. I have seen calves take up with bulls, which sometimes tolerate them. But eventually the calves are too weak to keep up during the daily roaming and are most likely captured by a coyote, wolf or bear.

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TOPICS: Agriculture; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: bison; overreaction; yellowstone
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To: faucetman

Yup.

Animals always out breed the food supply.

What changes is which characteristics will enable one animal to successfully compete against another to survive.

Before, the bird who saw the cricket from farthest away and flew the fastest got all the crickets. The slower or less far sighted bird got hungrier and more desperate, eventually making a mistake that a predator sized upon or getting sick or flying into something.

Now a bird who sees and avoids the windmill blade will get the crickets, and the faster bird who doesn’t see the blade goes splat.

At the end of the season the number of birds will still be the same because the limiting factor is still the limited number of crickets.


41 posted on 06/08/2016 5:31:00 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: raybbr

Our job is to accept nature on nature’s terms. But to do that, we need more educational programs that can teach people just what that means. The National Park Service needs more rangers out in the park and interacting with visitors, teaching them about this place called Yellowstone that I love so much.

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The rest of the story............................ more government.


42 posted on 06/08/2016 5:33:00 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: raybbr

I met the bison calf


The editor did not put that in the headline. I wonder why?


43 posted on 06/08/2016 5:34:24 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: mountn man

POST #14; ,,,,, does this mean Moochell can now shower with the girls .


44 posted on 06/08/2016 5:38:16 AM PDT by Lionheartusa1 ()-: ISIS is Islam without the lipstick :-()
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To: mountn man

That photo of Michelle Obama sure is suspicious, except the hips say “female”. Could it be an airbrushed photo?


45 posted on 06/08/2016 5:40:03 AM PDT by captain_dave
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

“That is a rare thing as usually they are in their UFO’s.”

Well, they’re associated with many UFO incidents. Skinwalker Ranch comes to mind.


46 posted on 06/08/2016 5:41:55 AM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: raybbr

This us a representative forum. There are just as many stupid people here per capita as anywhere else. No since bawling everyone out.


48 posted on 06/08/2016 5:45:22 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: HotHunt

You are correct. So often when humans try to intervene, the situation worsens. I believe the bison calf should have been left along.

But I find it the ultimate irony that the National Park Service, who would condemn a tourist for upsetting the cycle of nature plays around with nature all the time, like introducing super predator wolves in Yellowstone and other parks and those wolves in turn decimate the ungulate (hoofed animals) population in those areas. Elk, deer, moose and antelope have all seen a precipitous decline in population in the mountain west states.

The NPS should live by the same rules they would impose on the rest of us.


49 posted on 06/08/2016 5:48:09 AM PDT by randita
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To: RoosterRedux

Really, that’s not my take on Genesis 1:24-26.


50 posted on 06/08/2016 5:56:20 AM PDT by exnavy (John 3:16)
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To: Truth29
that is what is coming for many of us whites at the hands of the Left who have decided to replace the American white population with one that is more supportive and compliant.

Fixed it

51 posted on 06/08/2016 6:17:17 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Drango

Stop looking in the mirror, then!


52 posted on 06/08/2016 6:21:07 AM PDT by EarlT357
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To: raybbr

“Baby” bison die all the time. Some are brutally torn apart by wolves or other predators. In Africa, “baby” zebras and wildebeests are brutally ripped apart by hyenas and lions. Its not a pretty sight. But its the way the world has worked since the dawn of time. Trying to save any young animal is silly.


53 posted on 06/08/2016 6:39:10 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: randita
I agree.

Mother nature is Mother nature. The National Park Service is the bloated federal government.

The latter can never be the former, except in the minds of liberals.

54 posted on 06/08/2016 6:47:40 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: Jonty30

Sorry, but once a person has said, “That’s the way nature works,” it’s no longer regrettable. Anyone who doesn’t “like” how nature works should probably stay in an apartment in a major city and watch “Bambi.” :)


55 posted on 06/08/2016 6:52:56 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

We can still be saddened over harsh realities. I think it’s built into our fallen nature to have regrets about the realities of life, because it represents our inborn desire for a better world.

One that is absent of death. :)


56 posted on 06/08/2016 6:56:48 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Montana_Sam

I thought I was the only one who read (most of) that book...it’s a metaphor for Govt everywhere


57 posted on 06/08/2016 7:05:01 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Alinsky.....it's what's for dinner: with Cloward Piven for Dessert)
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To: Drango

That was Janet Rino.


58 posted on 06/08/2016 7:13:42 AM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: raybbr

Mother nature is a mean momma!


59 posted on 06/08/2016 9:14:05 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: mountn man
LOL!

Priceless!

60 posted on 06/08/2016 9:40:33 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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