Posted on 06/01/2022 5:28:03 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
An Ohio woman was gored by a bison after she got within 10 feet of the animal in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, officials said.
The 25-year-old woman, whose name has not been released, suffered a puncture wound and other injuries Monday after she approached a bison near a boardwalk at Black Sand Basin, park officials said in a news release.
"Consequently, the bison gored the woman and tossed her 10 feet into the air," the news release said.
Park emergency medical providers responded and the woman was taken to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center by ambulance, officials said.
"This is the first reported incident in 2022 of a visitor threatening a bison (getting too close to the animal) and the bison responding to the threat by goring the individual," officials said in the news release. "Bison have injured more people in Yellowstone than any other animal. They are unpredictable and can run three times faster than humans."
Two other people were also within 25 feet of the same bison, according to the news release.
Park officials are reminding visitors to keep back more than 25 yards from large animals such as bison, elk, bighorn sheep, deer, moose and coyotes -- and at least 100 yards away from bears and wolves.
good! she forgot to social distance.
Do you want to know something that will blow your mind?
Every living creature on earth is a "surviving species from the Ice Age."
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Yeah, I don't know why people vote for democRats, either.
The only difference is that now there will be at least five other people who film the incident and post it within 15 minutes on the internet. Especially to sites like FAIL ARMY.
Wow. That is hard to believe, but I’m sure there are people dumb enough to do it.
I don’t understand why people think that just because their dog is on a leash, that they can approach a large elk. I call them out on their stupidity, though it rarely makes much difference.
I have seen the exact same thing with Moose in northern NH.
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People are under the illusion if an animal looks funny or cute, it’s somehow safe to approach. Moose look funny and cute, as do buffalo. A hippo looks quite funny with its fat body and little rounded ears. But all of those animals will go into attack mode if they sense you’re crowding them.
I always thought the scene in Jurassic Park where the kids and Dr Grant are hiding up a tree and a brontosaurs approaches to be a prime example of assuming cute is not dangerous. Just because brontosaurs probably were plant eaters doesn’t mean they weren’t territorial. Having been extinct for 75 million years, we can make no conclusions on their behavior, but an animal weighing north of 40,000 pounds should probably be given a wide berth.
But you can gore it !!!
I blame Disney and all those YouTube videos that anthropomorphize animals to be four-legged people who are SO friendly. Our guide while on tour in a Canadian park pointed out Chinese tourists approaching mountain goats that had come down to the road. She discussed the animal’s stance, pointing out that the mere fact they were there, away from their normal feeding areas and in the road, that they were stressed. Stupid tourist tried to pet and it snorted and looked aggressive. (The guide gave numbers for the people injured per year and it was high. Their tourist guide rescued the people and shoo’d them away.)
My ancestor...
Great, great, great.....great Grandad had a nice cave near the Neandertal Valley. One of his granddaughters took off with some Cro Magnon dude.
We read this same story every year!
Signs all over the place……if common sense fails them!
…...but a lot of tourists are foreign, guess they can’t read the signs.
Bison - 1
Tourons - 0
I think it was last year that a man from NYC wanted to pet a bull while wifey took pictures.....
That should teach her that wild animals are wild.
This is not a giant Disney World.
Did she get a selfie?
I’m guessing the lady got the point?
But you can gore it.
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