Woman flown to hospital after being gored by bison in Yellowstone Park

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK – A South Carolina female was earnestly injured aft being gored by a bison successful Yellowstone National Park.

A news merchandise from nan National Park Service reports it happened adjacent nan Storm Point Trail astatine Yellowstone Lake connected June 1.

The bison came wrong a fewer feet of nan 83-year-old female because it was defending its space. It attacked her pinch its horns and lifted her astir a ft disconnected nan ground.

Park officials do not specify nan woman’s circumstantial injuries, but she was taken by ambulance to nan Lake Medical Clinic successful Yellowstone earlier being flown to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center successful Idaho Falls.

The bison onslaught remains nether investigation.

Bison person injured much group successful Yellowstone than immoderate different animal. Bison are not fierce animals, but will take sides their abstraction erstwhile threatened. They are unpredictable and tin tally 3 times faster than humans.

Yellowstone parkland rangers are reminding visitors to beryllium safe astir wildlife and connection nan pursuing tips and suggestions:

• View wildlife from a safe region and move distant if they attack you.
• When an animal is adjacent a campsite, trail, boardwalk, parking batch aliases successful a developed area, springiness it space. It is your work to enactment much than 25 yards distant from each ample animals, which includes bison, elk, bighorn sheep, deer, moose, and coyotes.
• Stay astatine slightest 100 yards distant from bears and wolves.

Click here for further information tips and to study much astir really to behave astir wildlife.