Cowboy State Daily reported<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe tourist was walking with his grandson when the powerful herbivore attacked.<\/p>\n
Mike MacLeod\/NewsFlare<\/p>\n
Video shows the man running around a copse of pines to try to escape the bull, which was giving itself a dust bath moments earlier.<\/p>\n
The bison suddenly charged the two tourists, and then viciously head-butted the older bearded man \u2014 catapulting him into the air.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just trying to get some dramatic footage of that bison having a fit. It\u2019s changed my idea of what to expect from these guys at this time of year, because I would not have predicted that happening,\u201d Montana-based photographer Mike MacLeod, who took the pictures, told Cowboy State Daily.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe [the bison] started walking through the campground. He was coming up to this group of kids, who were taking pictures on their cellphones from a good distance away, and then the buffalo charged these kids,\u201d MacLeod said.<\/p>\n
The photographer stepped in to try to scare off the animal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had to get the bison\u2019s attention. I was really afraid he was going to gore the guy on the ground, so I stopped videotaping and ran at the bison, yelled loud, and was trying to be as big and intimidating as possible,\u201d MacLeod said.<\/p>\n
When the bison was gone, MacLeod and others rushed to help the victim.<\/p>\n
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The man was in a lot of pain, particularly in his hips and the leg he landed on, but MacLeod and others couldn\u2019t see any external injuries.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne guy held his hand. Another guy pulled security on the outside to make sure that the bison didn\u2019t come back. A gal in a car was on the phone with 911, and another gal did a blood sweep, but we couldn\u2019t find any blood,\u201d MacLeod said.<\/p>\n
The tourist was attacked at the Bridge Bay Campground Friday. Mike MacLeod\/NewsFlare<\/p>\n
No update has been released on the condition of the man tossed by the bison.<\/p>\n
MacLeod said the bison likely attacked because it was feeling territorial due to the current rutting season, which runs between June and September.<\/p>\n
The bison was likely feeling territorial due to mating season before it charged. Mike MacLeod\/NewsFlare<\/p>\n
During this time, male bison can show extra energy and aggression as they compete for dominance and females.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can tell [the bison] was agitated, pissed off, and charging anything and everything,\u201d MacLeod added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive bull bison tossed a tourist into the air, seriously injuring him, in a heart-pounding caught-on-camera attack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11640,9,11,10,58,21601,24018],"class_list":["post-293959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-animal-attacks","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-us-news","tag-wyoming","tag-yellowstone-national-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}