Posted on 05/31/2019 6:02:37 AM PDT by SJackson
A female concession employee was injured by a cow elk in the Mammoth Hot Springs developed area at about 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to a Yellowstone National Park spokeswoman.
The employee was transported to the hospital via ambulance but additional details about the extent of her injuries have not been released.
Park biologists and rangers hazed the elk to get the animal to leave the area, which is home to the park headquarters, the Mammoth Hotel and the Albright Visitor Center.
Two women were injured by cow elk protecting their newborn calves last spring. Elk are attracted to the Mammoth area for food and protection from predators. While eating, the mothers will hide their calves near buildings or in the sagebrush. If people approach the calf, the mother elk may act in an aggressive manner to protect its calf.
Elk are in the height of their calving season, which can start in mid-May and extend into late June.
Elk acting like elk, these things will happen if they live amongst us.
Elk bites can be pretty serious.
A moose once bit my sister.
Park biologists and rangers hazed the elk.
In the new inclusive America even elk can join fraternities :)
Did they make them do drinking games or steal womens’ underwear :)
Yeah these are stupid comments.
Leave me alone will ya, it’s 9am and I’m not thinking straight yet and would rather eat lunch with bernie and hillary this afternoon than go to work today.
GET OFF MY BACK!!!
:)
They can. Deer too. A few years ago my dogs broke a fawn walking down a grassy hill. The dogs, trained not to chase animals, stood motionless. The fawn ran straight at me, don’t think he actually saw me, it was just the trail, and I barely got out of his way. Wouldn’t have wanted to have been hit. And mom was sounding off in the woods about 50 yards away. This sounds like an unfortunate accidental incident, but I’m amazed more tourists aren’t injured at Yellowstone. I guess the animals get accustomed to the annoying two legged things.
The employee was probably walking from her car to her work area and unknowingly came between the elk and her calf.
3rd and 4th post before moose and bites. FR is slipping. The West is lost.
This Elk HAZING has got to stop before some Elk gets hurt.
I have seen films about this elk HAZING. It is nasty business. Forcing some young Elk to dress up in silly outfits and dance around in front of the rest of the herd is a form a sexual harassment.
LMAO!
Also my first reaction.
Elk Hazing, like in Animal House...?
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!
Some of the commentary on this board keeps my sanity.
I don’t know how much that should worry me... :)
This elk was Flounder lol
Or when we live among them...
When I was a kid, we stayed at The Mammoth Hotel before they 'modernized' it. It was so awesome. I've dreamed of owning a log-cabin style home ever since!
The elk seem to concentrate around Mammoth Springs during rut and calving. Not too many years ago during rut a bull moose trashed a car for no particular reason. I bet the insurance company wasn’t thrilled.
What did the elk hire the woman to do? and why would the elk injure it's employee anyway?
“I bet the insurance company wasn’t thrilled.”
That sounds like a commercial in the making.
An we covered it.....
Maybe he was a member of The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Lol!!!
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