{"id":728243,"date":"2026-06-27T00:48:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/728243\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T00:48:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:48:28","slug":"12-year-old-hospitalized-after-encounter-with-bison-at-yellowstone-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/728243\/","title":{"rendered":"12-year-old hospitalized after encounter with bison at Yellowstone National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. (KUTV) \u2014 A 12-year-old visitor was hospitalized after they were injured in an encounter with a bison at Yellowstone.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred near Mud Volcano, just north of Fishing Bridge, at approximately 9:15 a.m. on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency medical personnel transported them to an area hospital.<\/p>\n<p>MORE | Yellowstone National Park<\/p>\n<p>Yellowstone National Park officials said that wild animals can be aggressive when people do not respect their space.<\/p>\n<p> Visitors must stay at least 25 yards away from all large animals, including bison, bighorn sheep, moose, and coyotes. Visitors must also stay at least 100 yards away from bears, wolves, and cougars.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"{p}Wildlife in Yellowstone are wild and can be dangerous (Photo: Yellowstone National Park){\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a7c970ba-c82c-40e4-92a8-ea62412241a7-Untitleddesign.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wildlife in Yellowstone are wild and can be dangerous (Photo: Yellowstone National Park)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If wildlife approaches you, move away to maintain the required distance,&#8221; a park official said in a press release. &#8220;Never approach, touch, feed or crowd wildlife, even if an animal appears calm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bison have reportedly threatened more people in Yellowstone than any other animal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are unpredictable, can run three times faster than humans and will defend their space when threatened,&#8221; the press release states.<\/p>\n<p>The child&#8217;s condition has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>_____<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. (KUTV) \u2014 A 12-year-old visitor was hospitalized after they were injured in an encounter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-728243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}