Posted on 07/17/2025 12:16:41 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
America's first national park and the first and oldest in the world, Yellowstone National Park, is regularly in the headlines. Just recently, Yellowstone visitors shared the grim reality of trying to gain entry to the park while it experiences record-high visitation—on a Tuesday morning of all days, not even on a busy weekend. However, some of the most eyebrow-raising stories coming out of the park typically involve visitors regularly crossing the line; for example, only days ago, a park visitor was spotted actually tasting the thermal water of one of Yellowstone's springs.
Naturally, though, accounts of tourists behaving badly also involve nerve-wracking encounters with the park's wildlife. This week, for instance, visitors were caught risking their lives getting too close to Yellowstone's bison, serving as a crucial reminder that the park isn't a petting zoo, which one visitor unfortunately learned the hard way after getting gored by a bison at Yellowstone earlier in the year.
Careless behavior towards animals in the park happens seemingly all the time, but this time, a series of questionable videos show it's the animals who are behaving strangely—rather, that's what they're falsely leading the public to believe, causing unnecessary doom and gloom about an impending volcanic eruption. The trending videos of "fleeing" animals at Yellowstone have actually forced officials and experts to clarify what's really happening at the park and why the animals look like they're high-tailing it out of there (spoiler alert: they're not).
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I am reminded that while the Lusitania was sinking, the captain denied it was happening and tried to get people away from the lifeboats.
Experts: “Nothing to worry abo....BLOOWIE!!💥
A super caldera would not just wake up one morning and decide to wipe out the western US. There would be a LOT of activity leading up to it.
If you recall Mt St Helens, the run up to that was pretty dramatic. Yellowstone would be main event after that opening act.
It’s not happening this week.
Animals flee for a reason..they sense impending danger...Question is do you trust your life to experts?
the animals are the experts.
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