# city folk what do you think about the bison? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 6, 2016, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-folk-what-do-you-think-about-the-bison/759235 "2016-07-06T16:49:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-folk-what-do-you-think-about-the-bison/759235/41 "2016-07-11T00:48:23Z")
I’m not city folk, and I’ve had just enough experience with cows to know I don’t want anything to do with bison. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-folk-what-do-you-think-about-the-bison/759235/42 "2016-07-11T01:25:39Z")
> [@davida03801](#): > > You know whenever I see a bison standing on it’s own out in the cold I just can’t help but want to take it home and warm it up in my living room. Psst - I think you meant “kitchen”. > [@Jackmannii](#): > > My favorite bison memory is seeing a small herd up in the Black Hills in early summer, peacefully grazing. > > Further off at higher elevation were a couple of coyotes, skulking around the perimeter, waiting for an opportunity to detach and dine on one of the spring calves. When we were in Yellowstone a few years back, we were able to watch a wolf trying to detach a bison calf from a grazing herd. (Long distance spotting scope.) The wolf would belly crawl up towards a group with a calf and try and get close. Mama’d get mad, there’d be some re-shuffling and the wolf would be run off. He must have tried 5-6 times while we watched. Finally, a group of 4-5 adults (we guessed males) formed uo and charged. They ran him off and then kept a picket line between his last known location and the herd. I do remember thinking, as I watched the big guys rumble into seriously angry action that they weren’t a group I’d want to be in front of. They were impressive. My other bison story, from the same trip, was having to stop the minivan and wait for a herd to pass. Sitting there in the driver’s seat it seemed like the bison were big enough to tip the vehicle if they had a mind to. Large animals. So we sat and waited, while they strolled. From the back seat my son piped up, “Mama don’t hurt the bison.” I wasn’t worried about me running over a bison. I was much more worried about them running over us! (It was adorable though.) ---
**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-folk-what-do-you-think-about-the-bison/759235/43 "2016-07-11T01:49:00Z")
> [@ddsun](#): > > Psst - I think you meant “kitchen”. I was thinking grill myself when I saw that. Wife’s cousin raises buffalo on their farm. We’ve had it a few times. To me it is a stronger beef flavor like the difference between bell peppers and chilies with venison being jalapenos on the scale of meat intensity. ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-folk-what-do-you-think-about-the-bison/759235/44 "2016-07-12T02:02:02Z")
> [@Common\_Tater](#): > > I don’t, I call them Buffalo. I say that having taken plenty of Biology and the rest of it, “Bison” just sounds affected and fucks up nickels and “Home On the Range.” I agree with you but I didn’t want to be shouted down for using the wrong term. I don’t know why two animals can’t have similar names. ---
**Author:** ![JimNightshade](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jimnightshade/32/3354_2.png) [@JimNightshade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimNightshade)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-folk-what-do-you-think-about-the-bison/759235/45 "2016-07-13T18:24:17Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > i think they are delicious. +1 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-folk-what-do-you-think-about-the-bison/759235/46 "2016-07-13T18:35:57Z")
I used to live in Wyoming and you haven’t heard/seen the half of it. It’s only the dead ones that end up on the news or the yahoos who put the calf in their car. But it happens every day out there in one way or another. Tourists seem to think Yellowstone is Disney World with mountains. I have personally watched people send their young children out to pet the Buffalo while they take a picture. I have seen grown men, fluent in English, read a sign that says, “Caution Boiling Water” and then crouch down and put their hand in a hot spring. There are signs everywhere to keep your pets on a leash for their own safety. Yet every year several pets perish in the park due to falling into thermal features or getting eaten by predators, etc. They couldn’t be more proactive about warning people of the dangers but stupid people gonna stupid and you can’t always protect them from themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-folk-what-do-you-think-about-the-bison/759235/47 "2016-07-13T19:07:57Z")
> [@Pabitel](#): > > They couldn’t be more proactive about warning people of the dangers but stupid people gonna stupid and you can’t always protect them from themselves. How about putting the tourists in harnesses, and have rangers hold onto the leashes to keep them from harming themselves or the flora and fauna? ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-folk-what-do-you-think-about-the-bison/759235/48 "2016-07-13T20:44:18Z")
Authorities tell you to stay in your car if bison are nearby, but they don’t really tell you what to do if [you’re on a motorcycle.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oUqd9M4JFg) As for hippos, they’re major assholes. Depending on who you’re citing, they kill as many Africans as (or more Africans than) crocodiles. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-folk-what-do-you-think-about-the-bison/759235/49 "2016-07-13T22:19:59Z")
As a longtime Urbanite, this is my basic attitude towards Nature: [http://oglaf.com/rangerron/](http://oglaf.com/rangerron/) ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-folk-what-do-you-think-about-the-bison/759235/50 "2016-07-13T23:01:24Z")
There are [herds of bison on Catalina Island,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalina_Island_bison_herd) brought there as part of a film shoot in the '20s and left there afterwards; they prospered and are now part of the draw of the island. We were camping there once when I was young, at Little Harbor I think. Woke up, opened my tent, and there was a bison maybe 20 feet away. It was enormous. I carefully closed the tent and stayed there till the herd drifted away. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-folk-what-do-you-think-about-the-bison/759235/51 "2016-07-14T02:17:12Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > As a longtime Urbanite, this is my basic attitude towards Nature: > > [Ranger Ron's Wilderness survival guide](http://oglaf.com/rangerron/) 😃 The deep wilderness is best enjoyed when accompanied by a field kitchen and armed guides in a convoy of Land Rovers in constant radio contact with home base. Then again we urbanites have our own foolhardy phases. In my 20s I’d regularly walk down the street in Baltimore at 2am armed with nothing but my wits… ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-folk-what-do-you-think-about-the-bison/759235/52 "2016-07-14T03:06:15Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > Authorities tell you to stay in your car if bison are nearby, but they don’t really tell you what to do if [you’re on a motorcycle.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oUqd9M4JFg) > > As for hippos, they’re major assholes. Depending on who you’re citing, they kill as many Africans as (or more Africans than) crocodiles. Maybe you should get some of the more conscientious bison to put patronizing stickers on their rear ends to warn other bison to watch for motorcycles. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-folk-what-do-you-think-about-the-bison/759235/53 "2016-07-14T07:18:40Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > If you are from the city, a milk cow can be quite intimidating. Not from the city by local definitions. Big village. > [@](#): > > Just enough evidence that film producers have tapped into people’s fear of nature. Heck, my domesticated cats aren’t crazy about “outside.” They are happy enough to look at it through a window, but the idea of going out the door into it terrifies one of them, and the other will go out only with me. Actually, they always and without fault tap into people’s fear of being alone. Every horror story taps into that, no matter what the landscape is. It’s always in a place where nobody can hear them scream and where obtaining help will involve either a long trek or a maze. Even the gorey “virus turns people into zombies” genre begins with a building full of people where after a few minutes the protagonist group is alone in the sense of being the only humans left; everybody else has turned into a bitey, chompy monster. And then they start playing “ten little indians”, so the protagonists are more and more alooooooone… ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-folk-what-do-you-think-about-the-bison/759235/54 "2016-07-14T12:30:51Z")
OP, you do know that the person who put the bison in his car wasn’t ‘city folk,’ right? > [@](#): > > ‘I am a farmer, from Africa, and many times it has happened that the poachers kill the mother (of a baby animal) and we pick up the fawn and give it to the rangers and they look after it.’ > **[Tourists say they were trying to save baby bison they put in their car](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3623776/Yellowstone-tourists-baby-bison-trunk-car-insist-trying-save-never-thought-down.html)** > > Shamash Kassam and son Shakeel, from Canada, said they put the bison into their car to save it from freezing or being eaten after it was abandoned by its herd and never thought rangers would kill it. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-folk-what-do-you-think-about-the-bison/759235/55 "2016-07-14T23:32:29Z")
I’m a city feller, and this is what I think. You’ve heard of the Cape Buffalo? Well, Bison have enough fashion sense to not be seen wearing a cape in public. What they do in private is none of my concern. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-folk-what-do-you-think-about-the-bison/759235/56 "2016-07-15T02:06:37Z")
How much fashion sense can they possibly have and still walk around with shit on their feet? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-folk-what-do-you-think-about-the-bison/759235/57 "2022-06-01T13:06:35Z")
Bumped. The latest bison misadventure. These are big and potentially dangerous wild animals, people! > **[A woman was gored and tossed by a bison after approaching the animal in...](https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/01/us/yellowstone-woman-gored-by-bison/index.html)** > > An Ohio woman was gored by a bison after she got within 10 feet of the animal in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, officials said. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-folk-what-do-you-think-about-the-bison/759235/58 "2022-06-01T13:10:06Z")
“The incident is under investigation.” If any charges are filed, hopefully they’ll be against the tourists, not the bison. ---
**Author:** ![Tride](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tride/32/13907_2.png) [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-folk-what-do-you-think-about-the-bison/759235/59 "2022-06-01T13:14:35Z")
And she has died, according to CNN. It’s not that much fun to go to the park in the summer because people are such idiots. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-folk-what-do-you-think-about-the-bison/759235/60 "2022-06-01T18:47:30Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > So remember, you may touch the fish. I’d appreciate dinner and drinks, first. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-folk-what-do-you-think-about-the-bison/759235.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-folk-what-do-you-think-about-the-bison/759235.md?page=4)