Tourists stopped to observe and wait for the bison to pass as they gathered along the Hayden Valley, Yellowstone National Park road. Everything seemed alright until one bison started being quite angry.
William Ogonowski, who enthusiastically filmed the whole incident, said the bison tried to fight the car in front of the people."
As shown in Ogonowski's video shared on Facebook, the furious bison struck the halted automobile with its head a few moments after,
Bison Tries to Attack Car Ahead of Rut Season
The incident occurred last Wednesday in a region where bison migrate during the rut.
Yellowstone National Park issued a warning on Facebook two days after this incident, stating that the rut season had begun in the area.
The park explained in the same post that bison gather in big groups during the rut, or breeding season, to engage in competition, interact, and procreate.
Male bison (bulls) engage in combat with one another to demonstrate their might to the herd's ladies.
Bulls will mate with various females within a single breeding season. In contrast, female bison (cows) will only mate with one bull. Mid-July through September is the rut season.
According to a spokeswoman for Yellowstone National Area (per Newsweek), bison are the species that has hurt more humans than any other in the park. Three people have been gored by bison in the park thus far in 2022.
393346 06: The sun sets behind a herd of bison in Wind Cave National Park, August 14, 2001 in the southern Black Hills of South Dakota. Millions of bison were slaughtered by white hunters who pushed them to near-extinction by the late 1800''s. Recovery programs have brought the bison numbers up to nearly 250,000.
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Yellowstone Bison Goring Incidents in the United States
The quickest player in the NFL has been recorded at roughly 23 miles per hour. At the same time, the typical lineman weighs about 310 pounds.
NBC News noted that a bison, by contrast, has a maximum weight of 2,000 pounds and a full speed of more than 35 miles per hour.
However, there isn't a referee to sound the whistle when a bison senses danger, unlike in the NFL. They charge until the danger is no longer present.
Tragedies for both humans and bison result from recent and continuous gorings of bison in parks and protected areas.
Although people aren't after bison, wildlife is under more pressure than ever because of the increase in visitors to Yellowstone and other parks.
In 2021, the year that saw the most visitors to Yellowstone, 4.86 million people came. Due to families being cooped up during the epidemic, tourism in America has recently increased dramatically.
But there is a price to pay for that (understandable) wanderlust. More generally, humans and animals coexist on more than 55% of the planet's surface. As human habitation spreads further into untamed areas, more wildlife interactions occur, frequently resulting in human-wildlife conflict.
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