{"id":7970,"date":"2013-03-30T03:45:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T09:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=7970"},"modified":"2026-02-13T07:54:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:54:46","slug":"dont-tick-the-bison-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/03\/30\/dont-tick-the-bison-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Tick The Bison Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AmericanAmerican Bison bull just starting to shed its winter coat<\/span><\/p>\n

This American Bison bull probably weighs in at more than 1,500 pounds, he is wild and you don’t want to tick him off like one man did on Antelope Island last weekend.<\/p>\n

These behemoths can move fast when they need to which is why when they are running you can hear their thunderous hooves. They aren’t domesticated cows and they aren’t tame.<\/p>\n

I’m on Antelope Island a lot and I’ve seen incidents where I thought someone might get trampled a few times. Once it was some women that walked within 20 to 25 feet of grazing bison. I was very glad the bison didn’t charge them.<\/p>\n

Later that same day from a long distance away I saw a man walk too close to a bull and the bison made a mock charge at him. I was glad the guy didn’t end up flattened like a pancake.<\/p>\n

Last fall I saw a guy in red pants, his bicycle laying down on the shoulder of the road walk up to it with a tiny point and shoot camera and the bison charged him but stopped, the guy didn’t even have a vehicle to jump into for protection.<\/p>\n

That wasn’t smart because before he could have gotten on that bike the American Bison would have run over him. Believe it or not the guy walked closer one more time to get more images.<\/p>\n

Last weekend a guy from Colorado got too close to a bison bull and in return the bull slammed him into a chain link fence. You can read about it here: Man walks away from bison attack unharmed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

There was a photographer taking pictures of the bull and the man and his image in the article shows the man being slammed into the fence and stated that the man might have provoked the bison along with other witnesses.<\/p>\n

The guy is lucky that he isn’t dead. The article said he was embarrassed.<\/p>\n

He ought to be. You don’t tick off a wild bison dude. <\/strong><\/p>\n

KSL.com interviewed the “A Bison Slammed Me into a Fence” guy and he claimed he was trying to protect some runners in Antelope Island Buffalo Run.\u00a0 You can read what he said here: Man pinned by bison says he worried for racers’ safety<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

I’m glad the guy is alive.<\/p>\n

But I think he should have been cited for harassing that bison.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my American Bison photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This American Bison bull weighs in at about 1,500 pounds, he is wild and you don’t want to tick him off like one man did on Antelope Island last 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