I read the older edition, and there are similar books about the Grand Canyon and Yosemite.
Y’know, I say we created civilization so we could avoid having to endure natural selection.
We’ve done too good of a job and some people apparently tend to forget why that is desirable.
The ICD 10 code would be Diagnosis Code W55.82XA
Struck by other mammals, initial encounter
(If it was other hoof stock-not cows-it would be W55.32 but I don’t think bison can be considered stock although I think they have hooves).
I think the thread title does not need to be changed to, perhaps, pemmican.
For the record, even domestic cattle can be pretty dangerous. It’s not just the wild beef.
Walking right by a large herd of cows free ranging near Bozeman I was plenty nervous with those heifers eye balling me. Family scoffed, but I knew the risk of getting trampled was real.
Roger Daltrey once did a series on the History Channel called Extreme History. One episode examined how Native Americans lived on the Great Plains. While observing a herd of bison, his tour guide told him, “Oh, those are cows. Don’t worry about them. They’ll just run you over, and then keep going. Watch out for the bull, though. He’ll stop, and stomp you into the ground for a while.”
Back in October of 2006 or 2007 we went up to the Grand Canyon for a few days. After watching the sunset we decided to return to Tusayan for dinner. We were driving and stopped for an SUV that had come out of a parking lot and stopped right before it entered the road. The driver turned on its brights and then hopped out and raced up to a male elk, camera in hand.
We watched, horrified, and my father finally said “I’m rooting for the elk”. We edged past and left.
Transplant surgeon in OR: “Who ordered the paté?”
Was in Yellowstone in 08 during August, which is the rut season for Bison. The drive through the valley the congregate in was crowded, because bulls were occasionally having disagreements about who got what cow. I was in an area out of the way with someone else taking pictures, when we saw a guy in an SUV creeping along the road, behind a cow and bull, who were very slowly angling across the road.
He got impatient and started crowding the cow, tapping his horn. She made a noise and the bull stopped, turned around, and started pawing the ground with an hoof. I asked the other guy beside me if he saw this happening, he said yes, he had his camera ready. So did I.
The driver then realized the bull was not feeling friendly too him, and he slowly backed up. The bull took a couple of steps toward him, then apparently decided he wasn’t worth the trouble, and turned back around to keep slowly crossing the road. We were betting on the bison.
I’ll just leave this here.
Some people raise beefalo, though. Best beef I ever had was one-quarter bison.
I’ve been looking for updates on this story but have not found anything more recent than a 6/01 story that was updated on 6/04.
Apparently the 25 year old woman is from Grove City OH and she lived, but not much more than that.
Here’s the 6/01 story with 6/04 update.
Here’s a Yellowstone/bison story from yesterday that mentions the event, but not anything additional on the outcome. It’s possible the journalist just googled and didn’t follow up when not finding an update, but it makes me think she’s at least not dead.
Agree that the lack of further details on the woman’s injuries / demise are decent circumstantial evidence that she wasn’t hospitalized for long nor massively crippled. More like treated and released.
Circumstantially.
I’d expect more of a social media storm had she been badly hurt, with unhappy family venting their frustration at less than perfect treatment at a rural clinic, the size of the medical bills, the “incompetence” of the park management and rangers for not protecting her from the bison, etc.
All of that not happening (AFAIK) makes me think she got a bunch of stiches, some pain killers, and was sent on her way to lick her wounded pride in private.
In private is key. She wouldn’t want to be widely known for not being smart with that bison.
Yellowstone is currently closed due to flooding. But perhaps when it reopens all visitors should be required to watch this clip. Then everybody might think twice about approaching a bison.
Note to self: do NOT drive on that road in anything less substantial than a Peterbilt, and frankly I’d prefer a Stryker or an M-1A1.
That nice bison was helping the other bison across the road.
Q: Why did the bison cross the road?
A: Because he was on the horns of a dilemma. Another bison named “Dilemma”.