In Wyoming, tourist thought a car window would protect them, then a Yellowstone bison closed in
The visitor rolled up a window as the herd trotted closer, while the National Park Service says people should stay 25 yards from bison.
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A Yellowstone bison can hit 35 miles an hour — faster than Usain Bolt at his world-record best, and about twice as quick as you can run. Which is precisely why the park's one-ton "fluffy cows" injure more visitors every year than any other animal there
The trouble with a bison is that it does not look like a threat. A big, shaggy, slow-blinking animal standing in a meadow, working its jaw, apparently indifferent to the line of cars and phones twenty feet away. Everything about the picture says you could wander over and it would not much care. That impression is almost exactly wrong, and it is the reason people keep getting hurt. Start with the speed, because it is the part nobody believes. A b…
In Wyoming, tourist thought a car window would protect them, then a Yellowstone bison closed in
A visitor driving through Yellowstone National Park got a close-up reminder of just how massive and intimidating wild bison can be when encountered at close range. What happened? The visitor posted footage on TikTok after capturing a bison herd maneuvering through and alongside a line of cars. @hilltophomestead1 I thought my window would protect me #bison#yellowstone ♬ original sound - hilltophomestead1 While the creator originally had their wi…
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