{"id":68781,"date":"2025-08-14T23:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/68781\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T23:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:10:08","slug":"watch-agonising-bbc-footage-of-a-bison-calf-being-lured-away-by-a-wolf-pack-will-the-herd-save-him-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/68781\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch agonising BBC footage of a bison calf being lured away by a wolf pack \u2013 will the herd save him in time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/ultimate-guide-to-wolves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grey wolves<\/a> have roamed Yellowstone National Park since their reintroduction in 1995, and these apex predators play an essential role in managing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/ecosystem-engineers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ecosystem<\/a>. And although bison aren&#8217;t their usual prey, hunger makes them braver. <\/p>\n<p>While a kick from a large <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/mammals\/bison-guide\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bison<\/a> can be deadly for a wolf, a calf is easier to lure out from a group, and can keep wolf pups fed for days.<\/p>\n<p>But can the herd save the calf in time?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Discover more amazing wildlife stories from around the world<\/p>\n<p>Top image: bison calf and grey wolf. Credit: Getty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grey wolves have roamed Yellowstone National Park since their reintroduction in 1995, and these apex predators play an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-68781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}