For the love of god, stay away from the wild animals in Yellowstone - Matador Network

[MattSh]

2016 SEEMS TO BE THE YEAR OF PEOPLE behaving stupidly around the animals in Yellowstone National Park. People keep getting gored while attempting to take selfies with buffaloes. A baby buffalo had to be euthanized when well-meaning but ignorant tourists tried to save it from the mild chill. And now, this.

Jody Tibbitts, a tour guide based out of Jackson Hole, posted the above video to his Facebook feed this week. While on a tour, one of his guests took a video of a wild elk. Tibbitts can then be heard warning a guest from a nearby car to move. “Ma’am! Ma’am!” he says, “Can you please — yeah.”

The “yeah” was because the elk charged her. What happens next is off-screen, but Tibbitts says the woman tripped and the elk pulled back at the last second, saving her from being trampled.

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[gordianot]

1. Also wild animals who encroach where humans live are still wild.

Humans seem to forget that.

[jtuck004]

2. "Did you get that on video?" ROFL.n/t

[hobbit709]

3. There's a show on Animal Planet "You Are What They Eat"

[dorkzilla]

4. It's amazing the human species has survived this long...

TEAM ELK!!!!

[Mendocino]

5. A true majestic animal and large.

A typical male weighs 700 lbs and is eight feet long. Some get as big as 1300 lbs. More striking than deer, and far more graceful than their "clumsy" moose cousins.