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Bison charges child at Yellowstone as fears grow over wildlife safety<\/a> <\/p>\n

Wildlife naturalist Casey Anderson reacts to dramatic footage of a bison charging a child at Yellowstone National Park. Anderson warns tourists about the extreme dangers of approaching large animals, urging visitors to maintain a safe distance of at least twenty-five yards. The incident sparks fresh warnings from park officials as visitors continue to ignore safety guidelines.<\/p>\n

Another epic nature video is making the rounds online.<\/p>\n

We’ve been on an absolutely wild wildlife and nature content bender here recently at OutKick. That includes the launch of OutDoors.<\/p>\n

Do yourself a favor and check it out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

VIRAL NATURE VIDEO CAPTURES STUNNING ALBINO DEER IN WISCONSIN NORTHWOODS, AND IT LIVES UP TO THE HYPE<\/a><\/p>\n

Just yesterday we saw a Canadian hiker have a run in with multiple<\/a> grizzly bears and leave unscathed. Now, we have a little moose action.<\/p>\n

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Large Bull Moose looking at camera in swampy wildlife refuge (Getty Images Creatives)<\/p>\n

Moose charges into Montana backyard.<\/p>\n

NBC Montana shared some awesome footage Tuesday on Instagram of a moose charging into a woman’s backyard in Big Sky, Montana.<\/p>\n

“CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH MAMA MOOSE: Check out this video of a close encounter a woman and her dogs had with a mama moose in Big Sky, Montana. Thanks to Shelly Thorburn for sending in the video,” the caption on the video states.<\/p>\n

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A moose in Montana stormed into a woman’s backyard. (Getty Images Creatives)<\/p>\n

Fortunately, the woman was able to react quickly enough, despite a minor tumble, and hit the massive moose<\/a> with some kind of spray to keep the wild animal away from her dogs.<\/p>\n

Check out the epic footage below, and let me know your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.<\/p>\n

For those of you who might not know (I’ve touched on it a few times in previous articles), I used to live in Montana.<\/p>\n

It’s arguably a top-two most beautiful state in America. The only other one in the conversation is Maine. Despite having lived in Montana, I can safely say I never witnessed a moose running into a backyard occupied by family pets.<\/p>\n

It’s just the latest example that you always need to keep your head on a swivel whenever you’re potentially in range of wild animals.<\/p>\n

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A woman in Montana got a surprise when a moose stormed into her backyard. (Getty Images Creatives)<\/p>\n

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Let me know your thoughts on the video at David.Hookstead@outkick.com, and feel free to pass along any cool nature footage you’d like to share.<\/p>\n

David Hookstead is a reporter for OutKick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bison charges child at Yellowstone as fears grow over wildlife safety Wildlife naturalist Casey Anderson reacts to dramatic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,7011,233295,302337,66,1063,7567,34604,323],"class_list":["post-881703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montana","tag-outkick-culture","tag-outkick-outdoors","tag-science","tag-viral","tag-viral-videos","tag-wild-nature","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}