Posted on 06/28/2025 7:54:54 AM PDT by Libloather
A bison was gruesomely boiled to death in a Yellowstone National Park hot spring last week — as tourists watched in horror.
The buffalo met its ghastly end when it apparently stumbled into the scalding water at Midway Geyser Basin near Old Faithful, according to the park service.
“There were two bison [standing] there,” said Louise Howard, who witnessed the bison’s death during her first-ever visit to Yellowstone, to CBS News.
“I thought it was a great photo opportunity.”
But the shutter-worthy sight quickly turned tragic when one of the bison stepped into a small part of the basin, then tried hopping out.
Within a matter of seconds, the beast began teetering at the edge of the Grand Prismatic Spring — the largest hot spring in the entire park — and then fell in.
“As hard as it tried, it couldn’t get out,” said Howard, who snapped pictures of the bison’s final moments.
Fortunately, the poor animal met its end “fairly quickly,” according to Michael Poland, the scientist-in-charge at Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.
The animal was thrashing around so intensely that it moved into an even hotter area of the Grand Prismatic, thus dying faster.
Poland dispelled rumors that the water was acidic and that that’s what killed the animal, instead pointing to its intensely high temperatures.
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Buffalo Wings.
Fun for the whole family.
Manson family, that is.
IOW, we can count on dozens or hundreds of mobile phone videos of this.
"We'd have tried to help, but the signs say not to approach the bison."
Buffalo are kind of stupid.
Bison stew. I bet it smelled good.
That’ll teach those Asian visitors an abject lesson!
Hakuna Matata.
A friend of mine told of her first visit to Yellowstone as a kid decades ago.
They were at a hot pool, when another family drove up, a little boy got out of the car, ran to the pool and jumped in.
Someone notified a ranger, no cell phones back then, and when they showed up with nets to pull the boy out piece by piece.
Probably saw all of the vacationing voyeurs and committed suicide.
As an animal lover a very sad story. A majestic beautiful bison. Sad.
That being said can we talk joy behar into visiting Yellowstone and these hot springs?
Buffalo Boll
Buffler Stew!
Boiled Bison - it’s what’s for dinner.
That is so sick! 😆
That is a horrific death for any sentient creature. Not something to laugh at or make jokes about.
Dying in bed in old age is usually not an option for them 4 legged critters.
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