Posted on 07/01/2022 8:49:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
Park officials said bison are wild and unpredictable, as recent incidents show.
For the second time in three days, a visitor to Yellowstone National Park has been gored by a bison.
Park officials say a 71-year-old woman from West Chester, Pennsylvania, and her daughter inadvertently approached the bison Wednesday as they were returning to their vehicle at a Yellowstone Lake trailhead.
The woman’s injuries were not life-threatening. She was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Cody, Wyoming.
The incident remains under investigation.
On Monday, a 34-year-old Colorado man got too close to a bison and was thrown as he grabbed a child. An Ohio woman was gored in May.
Park officials said bison are wild and unpredictable, and visitors should stay more than 25 yards away.
Woolly chlorine in the gene pool.
We have a family friend who pitched for the Buffalo Bisons after he completed his college baseball career.
The restaurant at Bryce Canyon NP does a great job with bison meat. IIRC, I had a meal of tenderloin tips that melted in my mouth.
I believe some European Bison are back.
https://blog.nature.org/science/2017/08/22/remarkable-story-how-bison-returned-europe/
They’re called “wild” for a very good reason.
I hear that and all I can see in my minds eye is Jeff Spicoli a.k.a. Sean Penn dancing that retard dance ha ha
Here come all those pesky chain link fences to surround the buffalo and keep stupid people from getting too close.
Sometimes society can’t have nice things when the Dunce Quotient reaches certain levels.
Don’t pet the fluffy cows.
Oh, they had them in zoos, but the last ‘wild’ one was killed by a poacher in the early part of the 20th century is some preserve................
—> inadvertently approached the bison
Situational awareness failure
Oh please. Cartoons are not to blame. Parents, educators etc are to blame. And a general lack of intelligence and critical thinking.
A herd of wild bison will render a chain link fence to scrap..................
I know what she's capable of, situational awareness is big with me.
LOL, would probably lay Trump’s fence to scrap.
As we used to say “F**k with the bull and you get the horns.
This year, it is Bison 3, Tourists 0.
Yeah, right.
Bison like to rub up against stuff to scratch and remove parasites and excess fur. Imagine hundreds of these wild 1200 pound beasts doing that all at the same time..............
And inadvertently got gored, inadvertently .................
Those poor bison should not need to deal with truckloads of silly people, or flimsy fences put into their areas. The only real solution would be to close off those park areas to the public.
That would be a shame.
For one thing, I think the parks need the revenue from visitors to help maintain the park and help pay for any employees.
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