Grizzly chasing bison

[Valerie]

www.fieldandstream.com/photos/gallery/hunting/2010/11/amateur-photographer-captures-grizzly-bear-chasing-bison-down-highway?photo=0#node-1001374086

This is a cool set of pics a guy took in Yellowstone of a bear chasing a bison down a highway. They ran right past him!

[Granny Smith]

Thank you for posting this! I'd seen the first picture before, and read that the rangers have confirmed that this really happened, but didn't realize there was a series of photos. Very interesting!

[Valerie]

Some compassionate person should have shot that poor moose. Can you imagine how bad it hurt?

I need to go to bed! It was a bison, not a moose! It sure was skinny though.

[Granny Smith]

The park rangers DID shoot the moose.... er, bison.

[Valerie]

Oh good. I didn't read all the captions. I was doing my paper, and Dave asked me to check today's weather for him (to decide whether to ride the motorcycle or not) and there was a link on that page to the pics, so off I went down that bunny trail. But I didn't stay down it long enough to read it all. I never thought about animals falling in those hot pools and getting scalded.

[meemo]

Those were so neat. I'm glad they didnt let the poor moose/bison suffer.

[joanfromzone6]

Nov 14, 2010 20:44:18 GMT -5 Valerie said:

Some compassionate person should have shot that poor moose. Can you imagine how bad it hurt?

I need to go to bed! It was a bison, not a moose! It sure was skinny though.

hope i don't offend you - but i ain't ever gonna send you to the store to buy me a moose -

looking through the whole series of pix i can just imagine the guy thinking he might have not had a very good idea when he was snapping # 7 -

[Granny Smith]

This is what was written next to #7~

Wypyszinski says he began to get nervous and considered moving to the roof of his SUV as the animals closed the quarter-mile distance between them.

“But they were running so fast, as they went by me, I jumped back into the car.

“They had to have been going 25 miles an hour; it was astounding how fast they were going. I could have touched both of them [when they passed].”

[meemo]

I skimmed over it too fast. I didnt realize he was out of the car. Kinda assumed he would have been shooting it from INSIDE the car. Thats crazy.

[Valerie]

Dude probably had to change his drawers when it was all over!

That must have been one hungry bear to chase that thing all that way.

[Granny Smith]

I'll tell ya, after seeing that, there's no way anyone is going to convince me that the black bears around here won't bother me. (Not that they could before)

[joanfromzone6]

i've heard that in alaska, where they have grizzlies, browns and blacks, the blacks are involved in more people attacks because they have less a fear level of humans than does the other two types -

here in ky the bears look pretty darn black -

[joanfromzone6]

Nov 15, 2010 14:23:16 GMT -5 Granny Smith said:

I'll tell ya, after seeing that, there's no way anyone is going to convince me that the black bears around here won't bother me. (Not that they could before)

maybe the lesson to be learned is that you should never go into the woods while impersonating a bison (or a moose for that matter) -

so - - - don't do that !

[Granny Smith]

My mink coat IS getting a bit scraggly...