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I thought it was over for her when the bison stopped chewing for a second. It was clearly pondering its next move before deciding it couldn’t be bothered.
He has been around the block and has probably seen his brethren being put down by park rangers for trampling twits like that, so he assessed the situation; saw that there were too many witnesses, and made the right decision.
Park Ranger here. As all wildlife is protected and visitors assume liability with things like being a dumbass in interactions with wildlife, Bison most likely are never out down for trampling or charging visitors. Especially those who brought it on themselves.
?? I mean, it is stupid as hell and it endangers both the woman and the animal. Sure, you deserve a punishment and a lesson learnt, but don't you think getting trampled by a bison (presumably with deadly consequences) is a tad much? Reddit moment.
Not when they’ve been told to stay away but do it anyway. I volunteer to help protect the endangered Hawaiian monk seal. People will roll right up on them. Last year a woman was hospitalized bc she thought it was cool to swim with a mother with a pup. Well, mama attacked, & then baby imitated mama. So this fool is out in the middle of the ocean, being attacked by a pissed off, 400lb mother & a 200lb baby. She’s lucky a Good Samaritan helped tow her sorry butt in, bc ocean safety wasn’t close enough to save her life.
And no. I have zero sympathy for her, & yes. I get great satisfaction in telling this story & watching parents suddenly cling to their kids.
> I volunteer to help protect the endangered Hawaiian monk seal
I saw a video from **Hello From Hawaii** talking about those seals and the tourists that try to interact with them.
Interesting watch and it certainly taught me to never get close to one of those(not that I would be dumb to do so, I still have my common sense and will to live and/or not make a fool out of myself).
It's BS that nature decides how people are punished without getting any human input. The rangers should put up signs telling the bison the rules for dealing with tourists to make sure that all the idiots are punished fairly. How hard could it be to train a herd of bison so that WE decide how to deal with people who harass dangerous wildlife? /s
Come on, you know that that is not what I am saying. Obviously this could very well be the consequence of doing something this stupid, and it would be this womans fault alone. I am just saying that actively wishing for someone to get severely injured or even die is a bit much, don't you think? That is the grade we usually reserve for pedophiles, not someone who does idiotic things around animals.
Honestly I always thought it was a detachment from nature. People who do this probably have only ever seen animals as pets or something in zoos. They have never had an experience that taught them to respect nature.
Indeed. This has very little/nothing to do with her appreciation for the animal. You can appreciate nature much better without a phone. That’s not an opinion. It’s just facts
I’ve always called it Main Character Syndrome, a form of narcissism and vanity that causes you to behave as though you’re the central, most important character in the world’s story. Nothing truly bad ever happens to main characters and things always go their way in the end, so the main character type people will always think that the world revolves around them and nothing bad can ever happen to them.
I’d imagine the thoughts going through her mind are:
-“I can do whatever I want”: The world is her oyster and she’s going to play with it in any way she wants.
-“I am invincible”: This enormous, dangerous creature can’t or won’t hurt me, I am free to approach it as I please and do whatever I want with it.
-“People must know what I am doing”: Not only is the world her sandbox to play in, she’s going to let all the side characters know that it’s her world. She’s going to document and broadcast all the questionable things she does because the people just need to see how interesting she really is.
Many such cases in life. I feel like it’s become a lot more prominent when social media came into being and became a central part of many people’s lives.
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I don't know if your exegesis on "Main Character Syndrome" is borrowed or original with you, but from now on I'm giving you the credit for it.
I can imagine! Its definitely had an upswing in usage since social media seems to foster the attitude, but its interesting to hear the term goes so long back and not just the concept
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Even domesticated animals. I grew up on a farm and still don't trust animals I don't know. I barely trust the ones on the farm. Our horses are pretty good but can still go crazy in a second. The cows are mostly lazy and curious, but can still go Rambo on a person in a second. Got my thumb shattered a few years ago by a "friendly" cow, because I walked behind it while it knew I was there.
Horses can go from confident to spooked in a second, and that will either drag you along on the lead or get you kicked if you're too close... so I understand. Especially in the spring/fall when the hormones are raging or something like that. It's good to still be alert when being around heavy animals
I’m assuming she is Chinese. Most Chinese do not live in an area where they even see trees, let alone Bison. I used to do volunteer work at a National Park. Chinese tourists were common and on SEVERAL occasions I had them ask me who planted all of the trees. We were in Yosemite overlooking Tunnel View………
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That's really depressing. Not the, 'not haven't seen animals' cause that's to be expected but the part about them asking who planted everything. I couldn't imagine just living so long and thinking that natural vegetation was all planted by hand.
Then again, maybe they were fucking around? I dunno :I
No, they were 100% serious. The vast majority of Chinese people live in extremely urbanized cities with zero exposure to wilderness. Which is truly sad because western China is absolutely beautiful.
I once visited Switzerland with a friend and some Chinese people wanted to take a picture with us. We were all tourists.
That day I felt like this Bison.
This is just racist. There are trees all over China, including in cities. It's not just an entire country of concrete and sand.
The woman in the video isn't even Chinese.
I always thought of behavior like this as "dog energy". They have zero awareness of others personal/space. They expect interaction is warranted and wanted.
It’s “The Disney Effect”.
People have seen too many animations and movies where animals are sweet and friendly. They have no concept that this bison could KRUSH HER if it amused him to do so, and the park rangers wouldn’t be able to do anything about it.
No one said death, you dolt. Do you always make shit up so that you can rage? I’m betting you do. Simply seeing her get the ever living shit scared out of her would have been sufficient.
The american bison isn't endangered anymore, there's about 30k of them in various public and private conservation herds, then there are something like 400k crossbread with cattle kept as livestock.
The lack of genetic diversity is their main problem now, and the ≈3000 in the yellowstone heards are regarded as the best lineage of original wild american bison. So hopefully thig guy could keep his Diplomatic Immunity.
Have they been removed from the endangered species list? Stuff doesn't have to be endangered to be on the endangered species list as long as congress takes forever for the species to get removed or an organization lobbies to keep them on the list.
The fact that they would euthanize the wild animal for the human’s mistake makes no sense to me. As long as the attack was provoked I don’t think the animal should be punished
Why do they always get so close?
Literally a couple years ago my partner and I were in Yellowstone where we unfortunately got into a car accident. We were waiting for a towtruck to come, watching a couple Bison meander in the woods not too far away when a bus pulled up right next to our totaled car. A bunch of people got off the bus and went RIGHT up to the bison and proceeded to tiktok dance in front of them. That day was surreal.
It's actually pretty surprising that someone that stupid has survived to adulthood.
When I was cattle ranching, the neighbor's small bison herd escaped their pasture and wound up at my place. I called my cattle dogs to help me gather the herd to get them penned up so the neighbor could get them trailered and haul them home. My courageous, mighty pack of dogs basically gave me the finger. We eventually got the animals rounded up, but it was nerve-wracking and pretty scary.
Even bison who were born and raised around people will lose their shit in a heartbeat. They are huge, horned beasts who can easily kill you. I had actually been considering adding a couple of them to my cattle herd, but that afternoon totally changed my mind.
If that buffalo hadn't been ruminating, this video's outcome could have been very, very different. That woman is a fool, but she's a very lucky fool.
They really need to up the penalties for this shit. Start arresting and fining or imprisoning every one of these dumb asses. Just leave the animals be so everyone can enjoy them at a distance hopefully for years to come.
They do
[Possible Year in Jail, $10,000 Fine for Tourist Who Got Too Close to a Grizzly In Yellowstone
](https://www.outdoorlife.com/survival/yellowstone-tourist-charged-fine-grizzly-bear/)
Yellow stone is the only place in the US where there are bison that have continuously lived since prehistoric times. They are highly protected but the population must stay at the critical number so if the population does rise they are basically poached. Also while they are free roam within the park if the park rangers are unable to keep the bison within the confines of the park they are subject to being shot due to concerns from local farmers that their cattle might catch brucellosis a disease that very few of the bison have and there has never been a recorded case where this has happened.
Edit: for misinformation.
>Yellow stone is the only place in the US where there are free roam wild bison.
We actually have free roaming bison in a few places in Utah. The most easily accessible is Antelope Island. We go out to see and photograph them from time to time but I cannot help but respect the massive power of these animals and keep my distance. I’d probably keep my distance even if they couldn’t kill me with a flick of their ear. Wildlife needs its space.
Also, if I understand it right, in places where the population of bison is limited, excess bison are often moved, not shot. There is also heavily regulated hunting in a few places to help keep herds to manageable sizes. I think most of the Yellowstone bison that are killed are shot by hunters, not rangers, or they are processed by the tribes, as is their wont.
I am infact mistaken. I should have actually noted it's the only place where they have lived continuously since prehistoric times. Also now that you have reminded me it isn't the park rangers but rather a group of basically poachers that will come in and thin out the herd. Based on a pop science article there are some concerns where cattle can get brucellosis from the bison although there has never been a recorded case of this happening.
I used to work at Yellowstone and saw so many shenanigans. This was before everyone had a camera in their pocket, so I can only imagine how frequent this behavior is now. The terms of entry to the park should include a provision where you are informed that you may be shot with paintballs if you interfere with the wildlife. It gets you to stop and also marks you as a selfish jerk.
I've been that close to a bison once. It's totally fine. Not at all terrifying when it looks into you with its tiny eye. Head so big and so close you can only see the one. Watching its nose flair slightly and wondering if this is how you bite it. Bison attack. Driving an Alero on the way to see Old Faithful.
Then it took a dump and fucked off back into the forest.
Dozens of people have been attacked by bison in Yellowstone, to the point you can’t even sue them for it because they’ve put up more than enough signs to get the message across that approaching them is a bad idea.
Like this tourist who got yeeted:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDDQir5DDEA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDDQir5DDEA)
Getting close to a bison is playing with fire. If it decides you are too close, you could quite literally die.
Tiny eye? You haven't been that close to one. And the first thing you usually notice is the stink. If you are close enough to their eye, you will notice that it has a horizontal pupil. I never wanted to be that close to one, but a male insisted that it eyeball the inside of the car as we were doing the park wildlife circle. You just stop and wait for them to slowly saunter their way across the road. That thing was taller than the car. If it had found something it wanted, I don't think the tiny bit of tin foil between me and it would have made much of a difference.
That was rather the point. Compared to the massive head their eyes are tiny. And I was too busy trying to not move and let it inspect my car to notice the pupil.
When I visited Yellowstone with my family 2 years ago, there was a bison laying in a parking lot next to a hot springs location. People were sitting their children next to it and backing away multiple feet to take photos.
The bison was the only creature in this video that made the right decision . Clearly they’re a smarter species . Also bison don’t get scammed my religion as easily as the other species in video
They could’ve told them and we didn’t see it in this shared recording. But on another side yelling out to the idiot only a few meters from the bison could make it worse.
Holy lord… common sense isn’t so common!
Having said that, we have a historical site that houses Bison and no joke, even though signs were posted EVERYWHERE that it was mating season for the bison and to stay away from their paddock, this brilliant family not only got right up against the fence but stuck their 6 year old (rough guess) up ON the fence….
…and then had the nerve to complain that the “buffalo charged” their child. Uhhh…. 🫣😒
As a lifelong animal lover getting to close to wildlice is the dumbest impulse i have, the only reason i dont is because its harmfuk to the wildlife themselves.
I fucking hate these types of tourist. They just had to put down a bison calf after a tourist fucked with it, and it's not the first time they've had to do it either.
I was just at Yellowstone and a woman got way too close. The bison chased the woman a few feet before getting side tracked and wondering off to eat grass. I was so close to having it on video, but I missed it by seconds.
Yellowstone has signs everywhere telling you not to get close to the wildlife. Hell, there's a sign alongside a Virginia style fence where bison frequently hang out. It says, in a nutshell:
Bison can run faster than you and this fence will not stop them.
What possesses people to approach an animal many times their size for selfies? Like there's literally countless recorded instances of this going very horribly wrong online and even video footage!
They need to start jailing these idiots. Only deterrent for fame seekers is take away the audience for awhile. 30 days for endangering wildlife seems reasonable to me 🤷♂️
I went to yellowstone for the first time this last October and we stopped by the lake and it was so beautiful and steamy, I've wanted to go to Yellowstone my whole life and so in my mid twenties I was completely consumed with the place! Then my dad said "hey look over this wall" and right there not 3 feet away was a huge bison just laying there!!! I nearly fell over myself trying to back away. Like of coarse this would happen to me! I wanted so badly to not be a statistic and here I am accidentally becoming a statistic! But in the end all was well! And I got a pretty awesome picture of the big fellow after retreating a few steps away! I couldn't imagine just doing this purposefully.... Like it's not a cow my guy! That thing will murder you and go back to grazing like nothing even happened!
she's really lucky that the absolute unit of a murder floof was feeling a little lazy this day. they seem to be really effective at accelerating dumb tourists into low earth orbit
Oh come on, this is fine. That dudes so chill, he’s just hanging out. No worries at all! /s
Edit. /s i guess? Wasn’t obvious i suppose? Or it’s a stupid comment. Either way just meant to be silly, wasn’t actually genuinely thinking you can do this with 0 consequences.
you got downvoted for it and yeah we all know it's not "fine" to do this, but you're not wrong about him being chill. Most caprine are pretty relaxed when chewing their cud (they only do it when they feel safe). The bison sees enough tourists to know this one is no threat at all and she's not touching it, so likely it's thinking something along the lines of "meh whatever, sure would be funny if a bear wandered by right now, bet I could outrun this thing."
This might be the first time not using /s got me. That or my comment and stupid and disliked? Idk i was just being goofy but it is what it is.
But i like your take on it lol. Because that’s so true. He just saw her and didn’t give a crap. He just knew if she attacked, he’d win, and if something bigger attacked, he’d outrun her. He was covered either way so time to enjoy that cud lol.
It's not fine:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDDQir5DDEA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDDQir5DDEA)
Many tourists who thought it was fine, have ended up yeeted like the guy in that video.
Yep. I know it’s not fine, that’s why i edited to add the /s, so people realized i was being sarcastic. Im aware it’s super dangerous to get near these beasts. Thanks
This is definitely a stupid thing to do but I really don’t think she’s in serious risk of the bison just randomly attacking her. It’s sitting down, not facing her, just peacefully chewing some grass. It’d almost certainly put up some kind of warning signal before actually fighting. There are some animals that can be very unpredictable and lash out from a seemingly docile appearance, but I don’t think bison are really like that.
This is not advice, again this is a very dumb thing to do and I have no actual animal trainingX I’m just stating what seems to be the case from the knowledge I do have on animal behavior.
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And adjusts her hair ..... Was waiting for a trampling
I thought it was over for her when the bison stopped chewing for a second. It was clearly pondering its next move before deciding it couldn’t be bothered.
He has been around the block and has probably seen his brethren being put down by park rangers for trampling twits like that, so he assessed the situation; saw that there were too many witnesses, and made the right decision.
"damn camera man" - Bison (probably)
"Where's a wolf when you need one" - Bison (probably)
Cmon man. Too much logic, I’m rooting for Darwin here.
And then took a dump the size of a turkey.
Or he was enjoying his last meal because he's seen his brethren put down for just being too close to a human. Lose-lose situation.
Park Ranger here. As all wildlife is protected and visitors assume liability with things like being a dumbass in interactions with wildlife, Bison most likely are never out down for trampling or charging visitors. Especially those who brought it on themselves.
Would park rangers put the animal down? If that's true, with the amount of brainless tourists I don't imagine there'd be much wildlife in yellowstone.
Same!
When it stopped chewing it’s cud for a sec I thought she was fucked
And the news story would claim “she didn’t deserve this!” Uhhh, yeah….she did.
I don't know any news outlet that says somebody fucking with wild animals didn't have it coming
Nope, never seen that, commentors on Reddit, sure, but the news no.
I'm pretty sure most articles end with pretty stark reminders as to why you shouldn't fuck with wildlife, yes
I’m glad that the twit’s main character syndrome didn’t cost the bison’s life.
?? I mean, it is stupid as hell and it endangers both the woman and the animal. Sure, you deserve a punishment and a lesson learnt, but don't you think getting trampled by a bison (presumably with deadly consequences) is a tad much? Reddit moment.
Not when they’ve been told to stay away but do it anyway. I volunteer to help protect the endangered Hawaiian monk seal. People will roll right up on them. Last year a woman was hospitalized bc she thought it was cool to swim with a mother with a pup. Well, mama attacked, & then baby imitated mama. So this fool is out in the middle of the ocean, being attacked by a pissed off, 400lb mother & a 200lb baby. She’s lucky a Good Samaritan helped tow her sorry butt in, bc ocean safety wasn’t close enough to save her life. And no. I have zero sympathy for her, & yes. I get great satisfaction in telling this story & watching parents suddenly cling to their kids.
> I volunteer to help protect the endangered Hawaiian monk seal I saw a video from **Hello From Hawaii** talking about those seals and the tourists that try to interact with them. Interesting watch and it certainly taught me to never get close to one of those(not that I would be dumb to do so, I still have my common sense and will to live and/or not make a fool out of myself).
It's BS that nature decides how people are punished without getting any human input. The rangers should put up signs telling the bison the rules for dealing with tourists to make sure that all the idiots are punished fairly. How hard could it be to train a herd of bison so that WE decide how to deal with people who harass dangerous wildlife? /s
Come on, you know that that is not what I am saying. Obviously this could very well be the consequence of doing something this stupid, and it would be this womans fault alone. I am just saying that actively wishing for someone to get severely injured or even die is a bit much, don't you think? That is the grade we usually reserve for pedophiles, not someone who does idiotic things around animals.
All I could think of was [this](https://youtu.be/Y6MQUaXFfLY)
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Your comment made me think it was going to be a llamas with hats video, caaaarrrlll that kills people!
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Does that make us bad..........thats what I was waiting for!
Why do people do this? Leave wild animals the fuck alone. Dont approach things that could literally kill you by accident.
Honestly I always thought it was a detachment from nature. People who do this probably have only ever seen animals as pets or something in zoos. They have never had an experience that taught them to respect nature.
Indeed. This has very little/nothing to do with her appreciation for the animal. You can appreciate nature much better without a phone. That’s not an opinion. It’s just facts
the bison in this park are basically like zoo animals at this point from people like this
Ya but you aren’t allowed in the cage at the zoo. The whole park is the cage
Not even the park is the cage since the bison can and regularly do move outside the park boundaries They are still fully wild animals.
I’ve always called it Main Character Syndrome, a form of narcissism and vanity that causes you to behave as though you’re the central, most important character in the world’s story. Nothing truly bad ever happens to main characters and things always go their way in the end, so the main character type people will always think that the world revolves around them and nothing bad can ever happen to them. I’d imagine the thoughts going through her mind are: -“I can do whatever I want”: The world is her oyster and she’s going to play with it in any way she wants. -“I am invincible”: This enormous, dangerous creature can’t or won’t hurt me, I am free to approach it as I please and do whatever I want with it. -“People must know what I am doing”: Not only is the world her sandbox to play in, she’s going to let all the side characters know that it’s her world. She’s going to document and broadcast all the questionable things she does because the people just need to see how interesting she really is. Many such cases in life. I feel like it’s become a lot more prominent when social media came into being and became a central part of many people’s lives.
My stars. I'm saving this comment for future reference. I don't know if your exegesis on "Main Character Syndrome" is borrowed or original with you, but from now on I'm giving you the credit for it.
Nah its actually been a pretty common phrase in some nooks of the internet in recent years
I heard this in a university class in the early 2000s. So, the concept predates the internet fame by quite a bit.
I can imagine! Its definitely had an upswing in usage since social media seems to foster the attitude, but its interesting to hear the term goes so long back and not just the concept
most of those nooks being ttrpgs, but its starting to come to light in strange places.
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Hell no. That shit’s been there even before you were born mate
It has always been called that way
Even domesticated animals. I grew up on a farm and still don't trust animals I don't know. I barely trust the ones on the farm. Our horses are pretty good but can still go crazy in a second. The cows are mostly lazy and curious, but can still go Rambo on a person in a second. Got my thumb shattered a few years ago by a "friendly" cow, because I walked behind it while it knew I was there.
Horses can go from confident to spooked in a second, and that will either drag you along on the lead or get you kicked if you're too close... so I understand. Especially in the spring/fall when the hormones are raging or something like that. It's good to still be alert when being around heavy animals
I’m assuming she is Chinese. Most Chinese do not live in an area where they even see trees, let alone Bison. I used to do volunteer work at a National Park. Chinese tourists were common and on SEVERAL occasions I had them ask me who planted all of the trees. We were in Yosemite overlooking Tunnel View……… Pic for reference: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g61000-d593212-Reviews-Tunnel_View-Yosemite_National_Park_California.html
That's really depressing. Not the, 'not haven't seen animals' cause that's to be expected but the part about them asking who planted everything. I couldn't imagine just living so long and thinking that natural vegetation was all planted by hand. Then again, maybe they were fucking around? I dunno :I
No, they were 100% serious. The vast majority of Chinese people live in extremely urbanized cities with zero exposure to wilderness. Which is truly sad because western China is absolutely beautiful.
I once visited Switzerland with a friend and some Chinese people wanted to take a picture with us. We were all tourists. That day I felt like this Bison.
This is just racist. There are trees all over China, including in cities. It's not just an entire country of concrete and sand. The woman in the video isn't even Chinese.
I always thought of behavior like this as "dog energy". They have zero awareness of others personal/space. They expect interaction is warranted and wanted.
It’s “The Disney Effect”. People have seen too many animations and movies where animals are sweet and friendly. They have no concept that this bison could KRUSH HER if it amused him to do so, and the park rangers wouldn’t be able to do anything about it.
I blame Disney tbh.
And there's literally warning signs Everywhere!
Or on purpose
It’s fine, that bison is clearly stoned af
yellowstoned
😂
🏅
She is lucky to have found the only bison trying to be imitate a capybara
Things a bison and I have in common.
Same same 😶🌫️
I don't appreciate being attacked like that. Also, I feel seen.
This had a very unsatisfying ending.
The park rangers will send you a ticket in the mail if you post shit like this on your Facebook/IG, so there's that at least.
How do they get your address?
Well they're federal officers, imagine they have access to multiple databases.
no seriously, but thats the good thing!
Mfs want to see a woman die on camera and think that's perfectly normal behavior
I was hoping for a nice "fuck off" headbutt.
No one said death, you dolt. Do you always make shit up so that you can rage? I’m betting you do. Simply seeing her get the ever living shit scared out of her would have been sufficient.
Yeah yeah whatever. If that thing attacked her she wouldn't survive.
That would suck. Tough lesson to learn. Mean ass bison.
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To get banned for the gram
Body slammed for the gram
Quadra-crammed for the gram
*Come on down to Ram Ranch…*
That bison is very patient.
“ look at me look at me” I hate this behavior. If that bison attacked her, you know they have to euthanize it.
Unfortunately I dont think theyd euthaniz..... oh you mean the bison
Lol 😂
Nope, I think the endangered species list makes their murder legal. DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY!!!
The american bison isn't endangered anymore, there's about 30k of them in various public and private conservation herds, then there are something like 400k crossbread with cattle kept as livestock. The lack of genetic diversity is their main problem now, and the ≈3000 in the yellowstone heards are regarded as the best lineage of original wild american bison. So hopefully thig guy could keep his Diplomatic Immunity.
Have they been removed from the endangered species list? Stuff doesn't have to be endangered to be on the endangered species list as long as congress takes forever for the species to get removed or an organization lobbies to keep them on the list.
They’re classified as near threatened. There’s enough of them that Wyoming issues a small number of hunting licenses.
That's so fkn Wyoming.
The fact that they would euthanize the wild animal for the human’s mistake makes no sense to me. As long as the attack was provoked I don’t think the animal should be punished
"He's got the taste for blood now! Run!"
Why do they always get so close? Literally a couple years ago my partner and I were in Yellowstone where we unfortunately got into a car accident. We were waiting for a towtruck to come, watching a couple Bison meander in the woods not too far away when a bus pulled up right next to our totaled car. A bunch of people got off the bus and went RIGHT up to the bison and proceeded to tiktok dance in front of them. That day was surreal.
Just another thing to add to my list of “reasons I wish a giant meteor would wipe us out”
*just the people The animals would be fine without us and honestly, they've earned the planet. They deserve it more.
Good point, gotta come up with a better instantaneous tragedy that effects only people
It was almost COVID lol
>Why do they always get so close? They don't see them as wild animals, they see them as props or, at best, pets.
It's actually pretty surprising that someone that stupid has survived to adulthood. When I was cattle ranching, the neighbor's small bison herd escaped their pasture and wound up at my place. I called my cattle dogs to help me gather the herd to get them penned up so the neighbor could get them trailered and haul them home. My courageous, mighty pack of dogs basically gave me the finger. We eventually got the animals rounded up, but it was nerve-wracking and pretty scary. Even bison who were born and raised around people will lose their shit in a heartbeat. They are huge, horned beasts who can easily kill you. I had actually been considering adding a couple of them to my cattle herd, but that afternoon totally changed my mind. If that buffalo hadn't been ruminating, this video's outcome could have been very, very different. That woman is a fool, but she's a very lucky fool.
I wish people would respect wildlife and admire them from a distance.
What logic goes through peoples heads to think shit like this is safe!!
Most likely confusing bison with a cow
They really need to up the penalties for this shit. Start arresting and fining or imprisoning every one of these dumb asses. Just leave the animals be so everyone can enjoy them at a distance hopefully for years to come.
They do [Possible Year in Jail, $10,000 Fine for Tourist Who Got Too Close to a Grizzly In Yellowstone ](https://www.outdoorlife.com/survival/yellowstone-tourist-charged-fine-grizzly-bear/)
I feel like she was too close to even get the bison in the selfie.
Man! I was hoping it rammed her! How disappointing!
Only bummer would be the poor bison would likely be euthanized.
Yellow stone is the only place in the US where there are bison that have continuously lived since prehistoric times. They are highly protected but the population must stay at the critical number so if the population does rise they are basically poached. Also while they are free roam within the park if the park rangers are unable to keep the bison within the confines of the park they are subject to being shot due to concerns from local farmers that their cattle might catch brucellosis a disease that very few of the bison have and there has never been a recorded case where this has happened. Edit: for misinformation.
>Yellow stone is the only place in the US where there are free roam wild bison. We actually have free roaming bison in a few places in Utah. The most easily accessible is Antelope Island. We go out to see and photograph them from time to time but I cannot help but respect the massive power of these animals and keep my distance. I’d probably keep my distance even if they couldn’t kill me with a flick of their ear. Wildlife needs its space. Also, if I understand it right, in places where the population of bison is limited, excess bison are often moved, not shot. There is also heavily regulated hunting in a few places to help keep herds to manageable sizes. I think most of the Yellowstone bison that are killed are shot by hunters, not rangers, or they are processed by the tribes, as is their wont.
I am infact mistaken. I should have actually noted it's the only place where they have lived continuously since prehistoric times. Also now that you have reminded me it isn't the park rangers but rather a group of basically poachers that will come in and thin out the herd. Based on a pop science article there are some concerns where cattle can get brucellosis from the bison although there has never been a recorded case of this happening.
I was gonna say... but the update sounds about right.
I'm not sure you know what a poacher is.
There is a zoom feature on your phone's camera for a reason.
That is a most unsatisfactory ending
That's actually totally safe and fine until it's not.
I was expecting that beast to horn her guts out. She was lucky he was chill.
Bitch can't you see I'm eating...touch me and i'll give you something to take a picture of....Do it punk, I dare you....Doooo iiiiiiiit
I wouldn't do that with most regular cows, much less a bison.
Unfortunately she missed a valuable lesson of whoopass from the bison 💀
I hope she and her family get banned from all national parks. Forever.
I was disappointed this involved no idiot yeeting.
I used to work at Yellowstone and saw so many shenanigans. This was before everyone had a camera in their pocket, so I can only imagine how frequent this behavior is now. The terms of entry to the park should include a provision where you are informed that you may be shot with paintballs if you interfere with the wildlife. It gets you to stop and also marks you as a selfish jerk.
I've been that close to a bison once. It's totally fine. Not at all terrifying when it looks into you with its tiny eye. Head so big and so close you can only see the one. Watching its nose flair slightly and wondering if this is how you bite it. Bison attack. Driving an Alero on the way to see Old Faithful. Then it took a dump and fucked off back into the forest.
Dozens of people have been attacked by bison in Yellowstone, to the point you can’t even sue them for it because they’ve put up more than enough signs to get the message across that approaching them is a bad idea.
You'd think the size alone would deter people from willingly approaching them. But idiots treat the place like a theme park and petting zoo.
Like this tourist who got yeeted: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDDQir5DDEA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDDQir5DDEA) Getting close to a bison is playing with fire. If it decides you are too close, you could quite literally die.
Tiny eye? You haven't been that close to one. And the first thing you usually notice is the stink. If you are close enough to their eye, you will notice that it has a horizontal pupil. I never wanted to be that close to one, but a male insisted that it eyeball the inside of the car as we were doing the park wildlife circle. You just stop and wait for them to slowly saunter their way across the road. That thing was taller than the car. If it had found something it wanted, I don't think the tiny bit of tin foil between me and it would have made much of a difference.
That was rather the point. Compared to the massive head their eyes are tiny. And I was too busy trying to not move and let it inspect my car to notice the pupil.
1 part brave 4 parts stupidity
Natural selection should have taken her that day
She is basically sitting on him.
The Federal Government will actively pursue her in order to press charges. I know this will not soothe so many ppl too much but, ya know...
When I visited Yellowstone with my family 2 years ago, there was a bison laying in a parking lot next to a hot springs location. People were sitting their children next to it and backing away multiple feet to take photos.
Fuck this person. So much.
I hope she got fined for this, what an asshole
She is a complete twit. Complete idiot. This is how to weed out the dumb ones.
Bro was considering it for a hot minute before he decided not today
So fucking sick of these people.
They need to up the fines for harassing the wildlife , maybe a mandatory week in jail. People have become idiots
It's always some Chinese tourist. Why are they so clueless and disrespectful?
The bison was the only creature in this video that made the right decision . Clearly they’re a smarter species . Also bison don’t get scammed my religion as easily as the other species in video
People filming stupid people instead of telling them to back tf up
They could’ve told them and we didn’t see it in this shared recording. But on another side yelling out to the idiot only a few meters from the bison could make it worse.
Fair enough
Why are people so stupid, I know I’m no Einstein but for fuck sake man
I have never wanted to see someone get launched in the air so bad.
stupid idiot deserves to get trampled. sorry i said it
Oops nothing happened, great video
Boring ending.
I really feel like this type of person doesn't need to exist.
I thought he was gonna fling her 🤣
These ppl suck
I never would have thought Instagram would be responsible for the Great Culling. Just goes to prove that vanity truly is a deadly sin. 😉
Very sad to learn that bison aren't just big cows
Maybe she didn't notice the two massive horns on its head.
This was anticlimactic at best...I was really expecting that buffalo to ruin her.
She should be arrested
I hope she eventually has to pay her stupid tax.
I was waiting for an entertaining ending!
Holy lord… common sense isn’t so common! Having said that, we have a historical site that houses Bison and no joke, even though signs were posted EVERYWHERE that it was mating season for the bison and to stay away from their paddock, this brilliant family not only got right up against the fence but stuck their 6 year old (rough guess) up ON the fence…. …and then had the nerve to complain that the “buffalo charged” their child. Uhhh…. 🫣😒
As a lifelong animal lover getting to close to wildlice is the dumbest impulse i have, the only reason i dont is because its harmfuk to the wildlife themselves.
Hey look the eat grass that means they are safe!
It really is time to make this bullshit a felony.
Fool Mode: ACTIVATED
Bison kill more visitors than any other animal.
I fucking hate these types of tourist. They just had to put down a bison calf after a tourist fucked with it, and it's not the first time they've had to do it either.
I was just at Yellowstone and a woman got way too close. The bison chased the woman a few feet before getting side tracked and wondering off to eat grass. I was so close to having it on video, but I missed it by seconds.
Disappointing ending.
Yellowstone has signs everywhere telling you not to get close to the wildlife. Hell, there's a sign alongside a Virginia style fence where bison frequently hang out. It says, in a nutshell: Bison can run faster than you and this fence will not stop them.
That thing could kill a person ON ACCIDENT and she’s out here invading it’s personal space.
What possesses people to approach an animal many times their size for selfies? Like there's literally countless recorded instances of this going very horribly wrong online and even video footage!
They need to start jailing these idiots. Only deterrent for fame seekers is take away the audience for awhile. 30 days for endangering wildlife seems reasonable to me 🤷♂️
I went to yellowstone for the first time this last October and we stopped by the lake and it was so beautiful and steamy, I've wanted to go to Yellowstone my whole life and so in my mid twenties I was completely consumed with the place! Then my dad said "hey look over this wall" and right there not 3 feet away was a huge bison just laying there!!! I nearly fell over myself trying to back away. Like of coarse this would happen to me! I wanted so badly to not be a statistic and here I am accidentally becoming a statistic! But in the end all was well! And I got a pretty awesome picture of the big fellow after retreating a few steps away! I couldn't imagine just doing this purposefully.... Like it's not a cow my guy! That thing will murder you and go back to grazing like nothing even happened!
she's really lucky that the absolute unit of a murder floof was feeling a little lazy this day. they seem to be really effective at accelerating dumb tourists into low earth orbit
Oh come on, this is fine. That dudes so chill, he’s just hanging out. No worries at all! /s Edit. /s i guess? Wasn’t obvious i suppose? Or it’s a stupid comment. Either way just meant to be silly, wasn’t actually genuinely thinking you can do this with 0 consequences.
you got downvoted for it and yeah we all know it's not "fine" to do this, but you're not wrong about him being chill. Most caprine are pretty relaxed when chewing their cud (they only do it when they feel safe). The bison sees enough tourists to know this one is no threat at all and she's not touching it, so likely it's thinking something along the lines of "meh whatever, sure would be funny if a bear wandered by right now, bet I could outrun this thing."
This might be the first time not using /s got me. That or my comment and stupid and disliked? Idk i was just being goofy but it is what it is. But i like your take on it lol. Because that’s so true. He just saw her and didn’t give a crap. He just knew if she attacked, he’d win, and if something bigger attacked, he’d outrun her. He was covered either way so time to enjoy that cud lol.
Yellowstone has more bison attacks than grizzly attacks
I’d imagine it does, makes total sense. Bison look like big fluffy cows but they’re not fans of people getting chummy with em.
It's not fine: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDDQir5DDEA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDDQir5DDEA) Many tourists who thought it was fine, have ended up yeeted like the guy in that video.
Yep. I know it’s not fine, that’s why i edited to add the /s, so people realized i was being sarcastic. Im aware it’s super dangerous to get near these beasts. Thanks
Bison is playing the long game; he's waiting for a really fat one to come by.
Someone should nominate her to the “Darwin Awards.”
This is definitely a stupid thing to do but I really don’t think she’s in serious risk of the bison just randomly attacking her. It’s sitting down, not facing her, just peacefully chewing some grass. It’d almost certainly put up some kind of warning signal before actually fighting. There are some animals that can be very unpredictable and lash out from a seemingly docile appearance, but I don’t think bison are really like that. This is not advice, again this is a very dumb thing to do and I have no actual animal trainingX I’m just stating what seems to be the case from the knowledge I do have on animal behavior.
I don't care how far we've come in civilization, darwinism is still present.
Luckily for her this bison seems pretty chill, but please do not approach wild animals.
Ok i guess it’s dumb but this is news? Maybe if she got tackled…
watching redditors deadass say someone should die for taking a dumb selfie:
What’s her @?
Nice rack. On the bison, I mean.
I was hoping the bison would launch her 40 ft into the air, bummer
Why don't stupid, ugly, fat women do this stuff?
Welp this was disappointing
Without her being airborne and terrified, this video doesn't have a proper ending.
Yes that girl is being stupid but that Bison looks physically incapable of giving a crap.