Posted on 08/02/2018 6:08:52 PM PDT by zzzz8
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I quit!
I was hoping that buffalo was going to flip that stooge over that car like a rag doll. I love the outdoors, but away avoid where obnoxious tourist go.
Er....I love the outdoors, but *always* avoid where obnoxious tourist go.
:-)
People have died in various hot springs in Yellowstone. Some are so hot there is little or nothing left.
Far more people have been killed by bison in Yellowstone than by grizzlies. You have to pretty much be in the back country to run into a bear. Bison are all over the place.
When we were there some years ago now, there were signs all over the place warning people that the animals in Yellowstone are WILD animals, not TAME, and that they are DANGEROUS. Many people apparently don’t take that seriously. I was told by a park ranger that when they have a tourist vs. animal incident the park staff roots for the animal.
I also noticed that when we visit the Grand Canyon, there are signs all over the place warning people not to get too close to the edge because you might fall over and fall a very long way.
There are plenty of people who shouldn’t be let out without a keeper.
There’s a book called Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in America’s First Park. It details the various ways people have managed to get themselves killed in Yellowstone. It’s fascinating but gruesome. It pretty much cured me of wanting to go back to Yellowstone even though it’s a beautiful place.
Just a little humor. It’s been a rough couple days here. I had to drive to my local VA hospital over an hour away with a bad right foot. Hope you never get a case of gout like this one, feels like my foot was blown off with a shotgun.
Highway 68 running north in my state was rumored to be an old buffalo trail. A few years back I found three elk teeth near one of my fishing holes. Sometimes you wonder about those early times here in Ohio, land of the Shawnee.
At my local national park, Elk Island, I rounded a corner on one of the trails and came across a bison. I was close enough that I could have petted it.
I skedaddled as fast as I could.
“Bisons weight 1400 pounds,
bisons come equipped with horns
and can run 64 km/hour (40 mph)”
Just as a comparison, the original Volkswagen Beetle weighed 1800 pounds, also came equipped with a horn, and could run 100 km/hr or more (60 mph).
But it is likely the bison would win a confrontation despite the seemingly superior specs of the Beetle.
What’s the difference between a buffalo and a bison? Answer: you can’t wash your face in a buffalo.
I hear you about rough times. I buried my Dad yesterday. I’ll miss him terribly but I know he’s with my mother and at peace now. Hope your foot feels better soon.
Actually bison weigh in at 2,000 pounds. That’s a ton. Some males can weigh as much as 2,700 lbs. They can also run at a lopping gallop of 35 mph. I’m not kidding. I researched this info. A human can do maybe 15 mph tops for maybe about a thousand yards at most. Think about it. If you were stupid enough to piss this animal off and were on level ground with no place to run and hide or get up a tree perhaps, this thing could catch you pretty quick and make a mess out of you. That’s why wolves don’t bother with this animal unless they’re very hungry and they come across a sick or injured bison that has become separated from the herd. Because they’re seldom preyed upon it’s apparent as to why they appear to be an ornery kind of creature. This is definitely not an animal to screw around with.
If we had a real life Jurassic Park, this would be the fool that would be taunting the tyrannosaurus.
“Folks taunt the animals at Yellowstone often...”
And it has been that way for some time. I last visited Yellowstone Nat. Park in 1962. At one wide point in the road, several cars had stopped to photograph a number of bears, which were hanging around that spot. Some of the people had gotten out of their cars to take pictures, and some of them, as well as some of the people still in their cars waved food at the bears. Maybe they thought this was some kind of zoo? In those days, you could watch people at the bear pits at the National Zoo in D.C. trying to get the bears to pose for pictures by offering them food. But these bears at Yellowstone were not in cages or behind moats, they were all around the people and cars. I recall one carload of tourists teasing a bear by displaying lunch meat inside the car, with the window rolled down just enough to let the scent out. Eventually, the bear reared up on his hind legs, put his forepaws on the roof of the car, and pushed and rocked the car and its occupants back and forth like a toy. At that point, my father, sensing a bad scene about to happen, started our car and drove away.
We had hardly gone a few minutes down the road, when we passed a family setting out a picnic at a table alongside the road. Too close to the bear picture taking in my mind, but you couldn’t see the first place from the picnic area, and it *was* a picnic area, with tables and such.... A minute or so past that, and we passed a bear loping along, headed straight for that picnic area, so obviously intending to join that family for lunch that it was almost cartoonish.
Yellowstone can be a crazy place during tourist season.
The 1870s were during the Indian Wars in the West. If there are no bison, then there's nothing for Indian tribes to eat, and they have to move away.
“Headline says “Yellowstone.”
Yeah, I meant Yellowstone.
There is a herd of buffalo down here, I can’t tell you how many times I have seen clueless people out in the pasture with them taking pictures. Trying to get as close as they could- with children too!
So many people out there now do not seem to have any idea that animals can be dangerous. You can tell them and they look at you like you are from another planet.
I honestly got tired of telling people of the danger and getting responses like I was the ignorant one. Started just driving by.
I think that information is outdated, I am seeing far more than one in a crowd these days.
People don’t realize how fast they really are...and they are athletic too, I have seen them spin around fast. I think people look at them and think they are just big slow animals, but I have seen them fighting or playing with each other and they make some amazing moves.
Wow! Yes the do look slow. Ha! Looks can be deceiving
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