A bison göred my sister.
For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.
They’ve since backed off that claim and now all sources say she remains in hospital.
Hippos actually eat meat.
ETA: didn’t look at the thread / reply date…
I read the OP, remembered the incident and started to write a post pointing out that the people who put the bison in their car weren’t city people, but African farmers. Then I realized I already made that point in 2016.
Bumped yet again, this time for a 71 year old Pennsylvania woman.
The earlier attack this week was on Monday. A 34 year old Colorado man.
I remember the tales an uncle told me about his bison-raising brother-in-law’s problems with the nearly uncontrollable beasts. But I didn’t need to hear such stories to instinctively know how much trouble one could cause.
I has quite chill with dairy cows. Not so much dairy bulls. And definitely no so much around beef bulls/steers. Bison would be in an entirely different category of stay away.
I had as close an approach to a bison as I’m ever gonna get–in the park, bit of a traffic backup when a line of bison decided that trotting right up the yellow line was the thing to do and they brushed by barely two feet from the open window of my car. They’re very smelly and really damned big. My dog was impressed and moved to the far side of the car in the back seat. It did occur to me that if they got annoyed they could flip a Camry no problem whatsoever but all was well and they turned off the road so we could continue on our way.
The Colorado man is extremely fortunate. Watching the video, he stepped in because the bison was going after a child. He pulled the child to safety.
He is extremely fortunate because when the bison goes him, the horn got under the man’s upper arm. If the man’s brachial artery got severed he could have bled out in mere minutes, perhaps as far as two minutes.
If that happened the only way for that man to live is if a quick-thinking bystander fashioned a tourniquet to stop the bleeding. The guy might have lost the arm but he would have lived.
That artery’s position is protected by the arm, but that bison’s horn got under his upper arm.
Extremely fortunate!
From earlier:
“You can touch the fish.”
I am surprised that no Dopers from Hawai’i, or better, Australia chimed in with “No, not a good idea here.”
This news reporter showed the right way of thinking about bison…
like the woman who tried to take selfie with jaguar (?)
The video looks very similar to a situation we experienced decades ago at Yellowstone. We were at some trail where there was a boardwalk loop. Walking along it, at a point where we close to getting back to the car, a bison was lying right on the boardwalk. We - and other folk - were trying to figure if we had any options other than going back the entire way we came. We did just that - but a number of folk were getting VERY close to the bison, standing with their backs to it to have their photos taken.
My sister told me of another similar situation. Their family was hiking a trail that was basically the bottom of a steep canyon - with steep slopes up on either side. They came upon a bison lying in the middle of the trail. While they were deciding what to do, the bison jumped up and started running right at them. She said she didn’t get any impression that t was trying to run them over - just that it was running full speed in their direction and if they were in the way it would just run them over. They and their 4 young kids scrambled up the valley sides, but she said she couldn’t believe how fast that thing moved from a dead stop.
I also recall in a ranger station they had films of idiots being tossed by bison. Morons.
They aren’t cows, their head can be almost a full yard accross. Have a bad disposition. Do not play well with humans. Do not give a fuck about park rules.
… or people.
Bison look quite unkept. They look desperately in need a visit to a salon or barber.
Well if you were smelly and unkempt, and you’d survived man’s centuries-long attempts to eradicate your species from existence, wouldn’t you gore every fucking man or woman who came close to you?