A Colorado man is in the hospital after he and his family were viciously attacked Monday by an angry bison at Yellowstone National Park.
In video footage taken by a nearby parkgoer, Rob Goodell, the man, and his family got dangerously close to the bison near the Giant Geyser at Old Faithful before the territorial bison charged at them. The family of five, including a child, took off running.
While trying to escape, a 34-year-old man was gored by the beast and sustained a serious arm injury,
The man was taken by ambulance to the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center where he was treated for his injuries.
Goodell says he had followed the bison for a while when he saw the attack unfold. He said he watched as the man seen in the video approached the bison and got too close for the animal’s comfort.
According to Goodell, the man who was gored was the first to make the bison go on the offense. Then the bison went after the older couple as the child ran toward them.
Jeremy Shaw, a park manager at Utah’s Antelope Island, said people often get too close to bison. “They always want to get closer and closer for photos. But ultimately, any time there is a dangerous interaction with wildlife, it’s because the person got too close.”
This is the second reported incident in 2022 of a visitor getting too close to a bison, prompting the animal to go on the offensive
The incident remains under investigation.
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