Tourists 'Rescue' Bison Calf From the Cold of Yellowstone - WTF!

[geminibear]

Some people should just stay away from the great outdoors

 

Father-and-son tourists were ticketed and forced to release a baby bison they'd wrangled into the back of their SUV at Yellowstone National Park because they thought it was cold.

 

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tourists-rescue-bison-calf-cold-yellowstone-n574461

 

http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2016_19/1537976/160515-bison-yellowstone-rd-1105p_d3a9ade5013f5643a484e4e1222aa7f8.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg

[+ Rickee]

Some people should just stay away from the great outdoors

 

Father-and-son tourists were ticketed and forced to release a baby bison they'd wrangled into the back of their SUV at Yellowstone National Park because they thought it was cold.

 

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tourists-rescue-bison-calf-cold-yellowstone-n574461

 

http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2016_19/1537976/160515-bison-yellowstone-rd-1105p_d3a9ade5013f5643a484e4e1222aa7f8.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg

Good grief.

If more families went camping when the kids are young, they would grow up with a much better understanding of the natural world. Just sayin'!

[+ WilliamM]

Some people should just stay away from the great outdoors

 

Dumb. But, Yellowstone has such a high elevation there is probably snow on the ground and below freezing temperatures, but still dumb.

[+ sync]

The one possible valid consideration might be that they are foreign

tourists.

[+ WilliamM]

The one possible valid consideration might be that they are foreign

 

I agree. Perhaps they believed Yellowstone was having an unusually brutal spring. In reality every spring & fall has cold weather and snow.

 

My brother has worked at Yellowstone since the Clinton Administration, and there is often snow as early as September.

[rvwnsd]

Good grief.

If more families went camping when the kids are young, they would grow up with a much better understanding of the natural world. Just sayin'!

My family never went camping when I was a kid. Nonetheless, I would not attempt to put an animal in my SUV.

[+ DERRIK]

Romney put a dog on top of his car

 

[+ purplekow]

My concern now is the calf being separated from its herd and its mother. I suppose it may be tagged and can be returned or if he did not take the calf anywhere just warmed it up, it could be returned with no harm. The rangers probably took all that into consideration, but I wonder what people are thinking when the separate mother and child. I would like to have been there for the Mother and Child Reunion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pa5H_4lBXs The best song ever inspired by a Chinese Menu, except maybe Werewolf of London.

[+ azdr0710]

I once pulled/lifted a small deer out of a pothole in a remote canyon in Utah.....for those familiar with them, they're called "keepers" for a reason.....

 

gratuitous self-promotion story now over.....

 

http://www.climb-utah.com/SRS/Files/cable2.jpg

 

http://www.danransom.com/TripReports/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/img_0136.jpg

[+ ArVaGuy]

Those tourists are lucky the mother bison was not nearby when they bison-napped the calf. They could have been killed by an angry 1,500 pound mother protecting her calf. She could have trampled them or done serious damage to that SUV.

 

The NGO I work for has several herd of bison on the Tallgrass Prairie. These critters might look docile but they are just as aggressive as any wild animal. You don't want to anger or frighten one of them.

[+ azdr0710]

or done serious damage to that SUV.

 

well, the SUV looks like a very clean rental and has probably been safely returned to Jackson Hole Airport by now!.....

 

I certainly hope the calf is back with it's mother now......

[geminibear]

UPDATE

 

Baby Bison Put Down After Yellowstone Tourists Place It In Car

 

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2016/05/16/baby-bison-put-down-after-yellowstone-tourists-place-it-in-car/

 

 

sometimes I hate people.

[geminibear]

Those tourists are lucky the mother bison was not nearby when they bison-napped the calf. They could have been killed by an angry 1,500 pound mother protecting her calf. She could have trampled them or done serious damage to that SUV.

 

The NGO I work for has several herd of bison on the Tallgrass Prairie. These critters might look docile but they are just as aggressive as any wild animal. You don't want to anger or frighten one of them.

Natural selection.

[+ Rickee]

UPDATE

 

Baby Bison Put Down After Yellowstone Tourists Place It In Car

 

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2016/05/16/baby-bison-put-down-after-yellowstone-tourists-place-it-in-car/

 

 

sometimes I hate people.

Son of a bitch. This really pisses me off. True, the tourists' hearts were in the right place. But their heads were up their asses

[+ quoththeraven]

Son of a bitch. This really pisses me off. True, the tourists' hearts were in the right place. But their heads were up their asses

 

This is why it was a stupid thing to do in the first place. It also shows a belief that the Park Service doesn't know what it's doing.

 

There are times we need to have faith in government expertise . This was one of them.

[Frequentflier]

Son of a bitch. This really pisses me off. True, the tourists' hearts were in the right place. But their heads were up their asses

 

Pisses me off too. The park service should be authorized to shoot tourists that stupid and publicize that outcome; we'd see less outcomes like this. Or is that too extreme? I would have thought the park service could have moved the bison to a rescue organization but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt they had no other options.

[mike carey]

There are times we need to have faith in government expertise . This was one of them.

This is an insight that is often lost, more so, I think, in your country than mine [Australians tend to expect the government to take a more active role in society]. The national parks services tend to be one of those that do good work, as do the various departments of agriculture here. Two other examples here are the emergency services, that is, the various rural fire services and the state emergency services, both of which have small cadres of government employed management and extensive volunteer workforces.

[marylander1940]

Some people should just stay away from the great outdoors

 

Father-and-son tourists were ticketed and forced to release a baby bison they'd wrangled into the back of their SUV at Yellowstone National Park because they thought it was cold.

 

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tourists-rescue-bison-calf-cold-yellowstone-n574461

 

http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2016_19/1537976/160515-bison-yellowstone-rd-1105p_d3a9ade5013f5643a484e4e1222aa7f8.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg

 

[+ azdr0710]

 

http://static.deathandtaxesmag.com/uploads/2015/07/bisonmain-640x427.jpg

[marylander1940]

 

http://static.deathandtaxesmag.com/uploads/2015/07/bisonmain-640x427.jpg

 

 

 

I'm still wondering why the elephant didn't kill her...?

 

http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/201596/rs_350x197-151006140546-rs_350x197-140720120006-KUWTK-914-Elephant.gif

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1ergmkqtZ0

[klifhangar]

That elephant was jealous because her ass is bigger than his.

[+ Rickee]

A very good followup article in HuffP:

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/yellowstone-baby-bison-euthanasia_us_573a2f77e4b08f96c183dbf5

 

I also read elsewhere that the calf could not be relocated due to risk of spreading infections to other herds, and that no approved quarantine facilities currently exist.

[+ sync]

Concern that the calf would be rejected by the herd was my immediate thought. I was hoping to be proved wrong.