North American bison are cranky
We’ve had two ranchers killed in my county here in Tennessee past ten years
Gored and stomped
One is only a mile or so from me
Big animals can kill when they are just playing.
A friend of my dad had raised Angus bulls for years (as did we also). He would fed them by hand when small, and walk amongst them as they grew up. One day he was in a small sorting pen with one 2 yr old 2k pounder, when it simply head butted him in his ribcage.
That’s bad enough in the open, but he was walking by a very solid wooden corral fence. It might as well been concrete. No give. Probably 6-7 busted ribs, punctured lung and heart.