9-year-old girl tossed into air by bison at Yellowstone National Park

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A pair of adults in the video I saw were running away leaving the girl behind. I wonder if they were her parents?
 
Have been to Yellowstone numerous times in winter and summer. It is easy to get lulled into complacency around animals that are so used to people that they will often allow you to get close. However, as someone above said, wild animals remain wild. Keep your distance, use a telescopic photo lens if you want close pictures.
 
I’m surprised everyone was so close to the bison.

I grew up on a farm, and we had cattle (Holsteins). I was always a little afraid to get too close to such huge animals!

My grandpa was chased by the bull once, and apparently took a dive right over the top of the fence! I didn’t see it, but my dad and grandma saw it, and always enjoyed telling the story. But other farmers have been badly hurt or killed by bulls.

I can’t even imagine how much it hurts to be tossed into the air by such a huge animal! It’s a miracle the little girl wasn’t badly hurt.
 
I’ve been to Yellowstone many times, we lived in the area when I was a child.

Something similar seems to happen every year. Recall once a French visitor tried to sue after getting gored/poked by a horn. They don’t come across as territorial and just graze by the road where dozens of cars pull off to watch them.

People no longer have ‘horse sense’, only growing up with tame house pets.
 
Holsteins are those big white and black spotted cows 🐄, right?

Those are pretty big and like to run around pretty fast if I remember correctly.

When my Dad lived in Italy, he raised smaller cows Jersey cows and Swiss Brown. I think they were more docile.
 
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The unidentified girl was with a group of people in the Old Faithful Geyser area of the park in Wyoming, standing within five to ten feet of the bison before the bison charged, The National Park Service said in a press release Tuesday.

The group consisted of 50 to 60 people, who were gathered near the bison for nearly 20 minutes before “causing the bison to charge,” the statement said. The park service did not specify what the group did to cause the animal to charge.
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Just because an animal is an herbivore doesn’t mean it’s safe…
 
This is why bulls have rings in their nose. 🙂

On another note, the parents probably panicked. We do not know how we would react if we were in that situation, unless in that situation. Weren’t they on a tour? The tour organisers would then have a lot to answer for, in ensuring safety of both the wildlife and the people.
 
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GiftofMercy said:
On another note, the parents probably panicked. We do not know how we would react if we were in that situation, unless in that situation.
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Actually, I think many parents have found themselves in a sudden dangerous situation and instinctively reached to protect or save their child. It’s frankly weird for parents to see other parents not doing that. Especially when it’s two parents both running and neither one of them is making a move to help their kid. Most parents I know would put themselves in danger of death to save their kid without even thinking, it’s an instinctive thing.
 
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I would like to think I would, but I won’t commit that I would until in that situation. Or perhaps they thought their child was elsewhere. Or thought they were leading the bison away from their child. I do hope they come into the media and make a comment about it.

I am also wondering what the people with the camera are doing in being responsible/irresponsible enough to push a Bison into the other part of the crowd.
 
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It’s hard for me to believe that those were her parents running away, especially her father. I’d like to think they were on the left side of the video running towards her but too late. I could understand if they were not related and maybe didn’t even know the girl was there. But if those were her parents wow gonna be hard memory.
 
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Weren’t they on a tour? The tour organisers would then have a lot to answer for, in ensuring safety of both the wildlife and the people.
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No, that’s not how Yellowstone works. Plenty of warnings not to feed or get close to the animals and most visitors are just driving around in their cars, pulling over to gawk at the sights. The place has signage but it’s very much a ‘free range’ tourist destination, just like the animals are free range.
 
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Holsteins are those big white and black spotted cows 🐄, right?
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Yep!

My grandpa preferred those because their hips were big and that apparently made them more hardy.

All of ours had names. My grandma cried the day they were all sold (she couldn’t manage the milking by herself anymore, and neither could my dad because of his job in the city).
 
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