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Yellowstone Bison Was ‘Defending Its Space’ When It Gored Elderly Woman
Cowboy State Daily ^ | June 03, 2024 | Greg Johnson

Posted on 06/04/2024 12:15:02 PM PDT by Red Badger

An 83-year-old South Carolina woman visiting Yellowstone National Park was gored by a bison Saturday that was “defending its space,” the National Park Service reported Monday. She was airlifted to a hospital in Idaho.

An 83-year-old South Carolina woman visiting Yellowstone National Park was gored by a bison Saturday.

The bison was “defending its space” near the Storm Point Trail at Yellowstone Lake when it “came within a few feet of the woman and lifted her about a foot of the ground with its horns,” the National Park Service says in a Monday evening press release announcing the goring.

It’s the first goring in Yellowstone this summer season, but not the first bison attack. That happened in April when an Idaho man was roughed up by a bison after kicking it while drunk.

The elderly woman in Saturday’s attack sustained serious injuries, the NPS reports, and was airlifted to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

While seriously wounded by the large animal, just how badly she was injured or her condition wasn’t known, and the NPS reports it has “no additional information to share at this time.”

Storm Point Trail runs along Indian Pond and near Yellowstone Lake, according to NPS.gov, and hikers and visitors are usually waned to be aware of bear activity in the area.

Although the bison reportedly reacted defensively, the National Park Service didn’t release any information about what brought the 83-year-old within striking range of it. However, the agency doubles down on its warning that “wildlife in Yellowstone National Park are wild and can be dangerous.”

Of the unfortunate wildlife-human encounters in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem “bison have injured more people in Yellowstone than any other animal,” according to the NPS. “Bison are not aggressive animals, but will defend their space when threatened. They are unpredictable and can run three times faster than humans.”

Greg Johnson can be reached at greg@cowboystatedaily.com.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Travel
KEYWORDS: animalattack; bison; dontpetthebison; goring; yellowstone
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Adjusting the hair is a nice touch. Mr. Bison is impressed.


41 posted on 06/04/2024 3:15:49 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Night Hides Not

“Opa”!

I miss my Opa und Oma!


42 posted on 06/04/2024 3:18:35 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; Lazamataz

She’s lucky it was just a bison and not Laz.


43 posted on 06/04/2024 3:33:02 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: 1ScrappyArmyMom

I think that term is neuter, which misgenders tourists who claim a specific gender like idiot or idiotess.


44 posted on 06/04/2024 3:35:58 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Red Badger

“Oh honey, look at the cute cow.”


45 posted on 06/04/2024 3:39:04 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: lee martell

Its a little like your dear elderly mother being told by her doctor to avoid certain foods or she can expect GI problems. Sure enough, every now and then, she will eat some of those foods because her GI doctor is too much of a brusque know it all and she wants to prove him wrong. Or at least that is how it goes with my 90 plus mother and her GI issues after eating French fries.


46 posted on 06/04/2024 4:08:13 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Red Badger

“An Idaho man was roughed up by a bison after kicking it while drunk.”

This is an almost perfect sentence.


47 posted on 06/04/2024 4:09:21 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Red Badger

AND——IT IS ONLY JUNE 4 !!!!


48 posted on 06/04/2024 4:45:37 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: reasonisfaith

SHE is the dangerous one.

She was where she did NOT belong.


49 posted on 06/04/2024 4:46:44 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

FUTURE DARWIN AWARD WINNER


50 posted on 06/04/2024 4:48:38 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Red Badger

51 posted on 06/04/2024 5:11:00 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: ridesthemiles

So far the bison are undefeated......


52 posted on 06/04/2024 5:30:00 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger
"Yellowstone Bison Was ‘Defending Its Space’...."

Doesn't matter in the least. In Yellowstone, the buffalo always have the right-of-way.

53 posted on 06/04/2024 8:06:48 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: ridesthemiles

If the violent behavior causing injury is committed by the bison, then the bison is dangerous.

There is no logically coherent way to assign danger to the woman.

I think the problem is in the process of indoctrination of the leftist mind by Enlightenment-era philosophers and other philosophers such as the existentialists, many of them French.

They made leftists stupid.


54 posted on 06/05/2024 7:43:13 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: Cold Heart

No, you’re wrong. Take control of your thoughts.

The buffalo had murder in its blood. It enjoyed hurting something far weaker than itself.


55 posted on 06/05/2024 7:48:03 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: Yo-Yo

I saw a man in the Smoky Mountains trying to take a picture of two bear cubs. He got between mama bear and the cubs, bending over to take their picture.

Mama ripped his pants off, leaving bloody claw marks down the back of his legs. The guy managed to get in his car and drive off.


56 posted on 06/05/2024 7:58:55 AM PDT by gitmo
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To: Red Badger

I was in Yellowstone last year.
Folks getting out of their vehicles to take selfies with bison, elk, momma bear with 2 cubs. Getting within a few feet of the wild animals to get a photo up close.
Lots of dumb ass people out there.


57 posted on 06/05/2024 8:35:33 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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To: reasonisfaith

I was kidding.

I still have tastey buffalo in my freezer from a hunt years ago.


58 posted on 06/05/2024 10:53:13 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Cold Heart

My apologies. I thought you were from PETA.


59 posted on 06/05/2024 10:30:40 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: reasonisfaith

“There is no logically coherent way to assign danger to the woman.”

Oh yes there is. See The Five Laws of Human Stupidity. Unless this woman was suffering from some mental issues, she’s stupid. And stupid people are the most dangerous people there are.

L


60 posted on 06/05/2024 10:49:09 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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