A woman visiting Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming in the US was injured after posing for a selfie in front of a bison.<\/p>\n
Bison, also known as buffalo, are one of the largest terrestrial animals in both North America and Europe with an average weight of 1,000-2,000 pounds. Despite their large size, the creatures can run up to 40 miles per hour.<\/p>\n
A woman, aged 43, and her daughter were only about 6 yards away from the large animal in Yellowstone National Park when the attack happened. A passerby warned them that they were too close, but the woman turned her back to get a selfie anyway\u00a0and\u00a0the bison\u00a0charged at her.<\/p>\n
The woman and her daughter attempted to run\u00a0from the creature, but the bison managed to flip\u00a0the woman into the air. Thankfully, she only\u00a0suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n
The Yellowstone National Park is urging tourists not to get too close to any animal, as there have already been two other bison attacks earlier in the\u00a0year. The first involved a bison goring a 68-year-old woman and the second was a 16-year-old girl who was also flipped into the air by a bison after going off a trail.<\/p>\n
Apparently bison attacks are common with an average of 2 incidents per year recorded. The incidents only happen, however, as a result of getting too close to the animals. Yellowstone National Park rules state that one\u00a0must not be within 25 yards of a bison or within 100 yards of a bear or wolf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A woman visiting Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming in the US was injured after posing for a selfie in front of a bison. Bison, also known as buffalo, are one of the largest terrestrial animals in both North America and Europe with an average weight of 1,000-2,000 pounds. Despite their large size, the creatures can run up to 40 miles per hour. A woman, aged 43, and her daughter were only about 6 yards away from the large animal in Yellowstone National Park when the attack happened. A passerby warned them that they were too close, but the woman turned <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}