A man from Florida was injured after being charged and gorged by a bison has Yellowstone National Park Sunday.
Park managers repeated their frequent warning not to get too close to fauna during the visit of the National Park before the busy summer season.
The 47 -year -old man, who approached the bison, escaped with only minor injuries and was treated by emergency medical staff, According to the National Park Service (NPS).
The park officials refused to say more about the visitor of Cape Coral, Florida, or to give more details on the attack on Sunday, but they said that in Lake Village took place, an area of cabins, a lodge and campsites on the bank of Lake Yellowstone.
The NPS said that the incident was currently inquiry and that it was the first reported incident of a person injured by a bison in 2025.
The bison can be aggressive when people do not give them enough space, said park officials in their declaration and injured more people in Yellowstone than any other wild animal.
At least two people were embarrassed last year, including a woman from South Carolina 83 years old who was seriously injured.
The woman was near the Storm Point Trail in Yellowstone Lake in June 2024, when the Bison lifted her about one foot from the ground with her horns, said park officials, adding that the bison defended her space.
In April 2024, A man from Idaho was arrested for alcohol and fauna charges After being accused of kicking a bison in Yellowstone National Park, undergoing minor injuries.
Clarence Yoder of Idaho Falls was arrested by the Park Rangers, who transported her to a neighboring medical establishment before dropping him into a county detention center.
The authorities were informed of the Bison Brouhaha after a parkgoer said he saw an individual “who harassed a herd of bison and kicked the leg” near the western entrance to Yellowstone, the park managers wrote A press release.
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Authorities said Yoder’s injuries were not serious.
Park Rangers finally located the vehicle to Yoder in the city of West Yellowstone and took it as well as the driver of the car in detention. The vehicle was led by McKenna Bass, also from Idaho Falls. She too was arrested for accusations of alcohol and fauna.
The two appeared in court on April 22, 2024 and pleaded not guilty of the accusations. Each accusation includes a maximum fine of US $ 5,000 and six months in prison.
In July 2023, A Phoenix woman was gore by a bison At Yellowstone National Park, According to the National Park ServiceLeaving it with “important injuries to her chest and abdomen”.
Amber Harris visited Yellowstone and walked with another person in a field near Lake Lodge cabins on the north shore of Lake Yellowstone when she came across two bison.
“Seeing them, visitors turned to move away from the bison,” said National Park Service, but one of the bison charged them and embarrassed the woman.
The woman was seriously injured and had to be transported by helicopter to the regional medical center in eastern Idaho.
Chris Whitehill, the woman’s fiancé who was with her at the time, told Phoenix KPNX television that the bison had struck him “head -on and she was in the air. “”
“I think she made one or two backflips in the air, and shouted and shouted while trying to distract him. She landed quite strong on her back. ”
Harris was extended out of the field and transferred to a helicopter and taken to the hospital.
“I underwent 7 fractures of the spine, lungs and bilateral bruises and bruises everywhere. Glory to God all my vital organs look good, ”added Harris.
The National Park Service requires that visitors remain at least 23 meters from large animals like the Bison.
Bisons are the largest mammals in North America, can reach speeds up to 55 kilometers per hour during the load and are able to jump for several feet. About 2,300 to 5,500 bison live in the park.
– With Global News and Associated Press files
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