Bison injures woman posing for selfie at Yellowstone

Yellowstone National Park officials are warning tourists to keep their distance after a bison flipped a woman into the air as she posed for a selfie with the massive beast. She and her daughter turned their backs on the creature from roughly 6 yards away to get a photo with the bison in the background, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports. She was taken to a nearby clinic and treated for only minor injuries. But the incident is the fifth bison attack this summer in Yellowstone-all because people are getting too close to the wild animals.

The woman received minor injuries in the attack.

“The family said they read the warnings in both the park literature and the signage, but saw other people close to the bison, so they thought it would be OK”.

Taking selfies with wild animals is utterly moronic, and yet that fact isn’t dissuading Yellowstone tourists from trying to snap smiling vacation photos alongside bison. Luckily, her husband intervened and the bison retreated. She suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries from the attack.

In May, a 16-year-old Taiwanese exchange student turned her back to take a photo with a group.

When park rangers responded to the attack, they found the bystanders less than ten feet away from that same bison.

A 62-year-old Australian man was taking pictures within 5 feet of a bison near Old Faithful Lodge on June 2 when the animal charged and tossed him into the air several times, according to park officials. They just want to eat and do animal stuff. Legally, in Yellowstone NP, people must stay at least 25 yards away from large animals and not approach them, regardless of how tame or docile they appear. “

People are getting way too close”,

Bartlett told the Associated Press.

Yellowstone is the only place in the United States where bison continue have lived since prehistoric times.