Can't be stupid near a buffalo herd

[soFlaNative]

Unbelievably stupid yet incredibly lucky.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bison-yellowstone-child-tourists-b2769133.html

 

[old bear]

Unbelievably stupid yet incredibly lucky.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bison-yellowstone-child-tourists-b2769133.html

 

[old bear]

Well, she was. Glad that no died

 

[TJm15.38]

Last time I was up close to a Bison was in 2023 at Antelope Island State Park in Utah adjacent to the Great Salt Lake. They are huge animals, and I was only willing to shoot this photo from the car window. There are lots of warnings in the park to leave these animals alone.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Water buffalo are apprently safer:

Roaming water buffalo herd corralled after stroll through the streets of Surrey BC​

If you saw a large herd of water buffalo roaming the streets in Fleetwood or Port Kells today, you were not dreaming...

"They swam through the culvert under 176 and went for a leisurely walk up to 168th. We had witnesses calmly follow until they got spooked and ran up the road,"

...They are gentle, curious animals. All those involved in the physical round up are very familiar with the herd,"

 

[roundels]

A lifetime ago my 13 year old brother learned the hard way that teasing a buffalo was a bad idea. We were at the town zoo in Alamogordo NM and they had a buffalo behind a chain link fence. My brother hung on the fence and swung it back and forth and that buffalo suddenly turned, charged and hit him squarely in the chest right through the chain link. When he finally caught his breath and got up my brother was a different kid. What hurts, teaches.