Tourist Forgets to Social Distance From Bison — Gets Head-Butted in Yellowstone

A tourist approached a bison and the bison, naturally, didn't like and head-butted her to the ground.

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Annaliese Wiederspahn

May 21, 20201 min read

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Coronavirus or not, tourists at Yellowstone continue to act like tourists.

This incident is a little bit more surprising considering all of the social distancing people — across the globe — have supposed to have been doing.

Not many details are known about this latest incident in Yellowstone except a woman was approaching a bison in the Old Faithful Upper Geyser Basin area and it didn’t like it.

The bison let the woman know by head-butting her to the ground.

Thankfully for the woman, her injuries were not significant enough to be taken to the hospital.

This is the first incident between a human and a bison in 2020 and with the Park only open for three days, it could be a banner year. Perhaps records will be broken.

The Old Faithful area has seen a lot of action so far this year. Just last week a woman — who entered the Park illegally — fell backwards into a thermal feature in the area sustaining burns.

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