[where's_the_Outrage?]

"Most tourists regard bison as docile critters, but bison can run in bursts of 30 mph and are surprisingly agile. Tourists are wise to afford them a wide berth"

Amazing how many dumb people get unexpected interactions with these massive creatures.

[SES1066]

How many EXPERIENCED farmers are hurt every year by DOMESTICATED livestock? Animals, even dogs, can get a 'notion' and BANG, you are hurt or even dead!

To my mind, one of the deadliest inventions made by man has been the 'selfie stick'! Yep, get out of the car at Yellowstone for that lifetime picture! Oops, a rather short lifetime ...

WE, and I definitely INCLUDE myself, have become very urbanized with little interaction with true wildlife. Too frequently we take our perceptions from TV & movies and think it is real life. They see someone ride a horse and touch a wolf and think they can do the same!

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, put it clear in his 1850 poem, " In Memoriam A. H. H.";
Tho’ Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shriek’d against his creed –

[glock rocks]

Back in the sixties, a Yellowstone ranger had a campfire slide show at our campground.

One of the slides was of a driver who honked at the bison standing in the road ahead of him ... Bison-1, DeVille-0

Straight into the grill.

[Lazamataz]

Yeahhhhh count me out.

[AFreeBird]

Yup. When several tons of bull bison are having a “discussion”, best kept yer distance.

[nuke_road_warrior]

Testosterone fueled bulls are very territorial during mating season. Imagine what a full-grown male Bison could do to you if he can knock a smaller (adolescent?) bull ass over apple cart. That said, Bison are NEVER docile. Even without it being mating season, If they perceive a threat, either individually or to the heard, they will react quickly and violently. I have a terrific photo of a Bison while being caught in a “Buffalo Jam” in Yellowstone. Stayed in the car, pointed the camera out the window and got a near perfectly framed shot. Fortunately, the bison don't see cars as predators (as long as you don't do something stupid).

[Rappini]

Not much of a fight.

[SJackson]

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[Bob434]

Worked a small bison ranch, 14 female bison, two males, and a number of young. The one male was head honcho of course, and come mating season, the younger would, challenge him, which was quite the nightly show. These huge ‘lumbering’ animals can turn the speed on Ina flash. Every once in awhile, we had to go In and clean out the pens, but before we did we had to get them into another pen (which wasn’t hard, we just dropped some silage into the other pen- they go bonkers for it)- there was no way I’d go in thr pen with them- just way too unpredictable

Our neighbor had a ‘pet bison’ that killed him. He gored the fella, which he survived, buT never healed right and got infected over and over, and he finally died from it about a year later. Some folks just think they have a special connection with animals and that they understand them. Well, they might, for awhile, until they don’t that is