Bison Running for Their Lives!!

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A youtube video. The site full of misinformation!! The video below which has already ranked up 300K views and has been mentioned on top news media outlets, states that bison are running for their lives due to the impending volcanic eruption of the Yellowstone Volcano, which is due any day now to destroy America!

At least that the jist of the claim. Do these bison really look like they are running scared for their lives? That does not look like running to me. They are just trotting up the highway!

 
A youtube video. The site full of misinformation!! The video below which has already ranked up 300K views and has been mentioned on top news media outlets, states that bison are running for their lives due to the impending volcanic eruption of the Yellowstone Volcano, which is due any day now to destroy America!

At least that the jist of the claim. Do these bison really look like they are running scared for their lives? That does not look like running to me. They are just trotting up the highway!


Ha-ha!
There's 20 reasons this is nonsense…
the one that strikes me first is that the (undated? WTF?) clip is almost certainly shot
on the northernmost Yellowstone road that runs essentially east-west from the "North Entrance" to the "Northeast Entrance."
In short, whether trotting east or west, the Bison would not be "escaping" the caldera! :p

p.s. Here's a dash cam shot of them lounging about my campsite in January
Yellowstone Tent : Bison B 1:15:14.jpg
And when three dozen 1,500 to 2,000 lb. animals with horns are advancing towards you, it gets your attention.
Bison coming towards truck, Jan 2014.jpg
 
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The park put out its own video response to this (which I caught via Doubtful News' Sharon Hill, who happens to be a geologist: Are animals fleeing Yellowstone because of coming catastrophe? No.).

Should you worry about earthquakes near North America's largest volcano? Are animals fleeing the park? Public Affairs Chief Al Nash sets the record straight on a few stories circulating about Yellowstone.
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The park put out its own video response to this (which I caught via Doubtful News' Sharon Hill, who happens to be a geologist: Are animals fleeing Yellowstone because of coming catastrophe? No.).

Should you worry about earthquakes near North America's largest volcano? Are animals fleeing the park? Public Affairs Chief Al Nash sets the record straight on a few stories circulating about Yellowstone.
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This is pretty awesome and what a fast response. I wish more people would do this instead of glorifying the paranoid...
 
Ha-ha!
There's 20 reasons this is nonsense…
the one that strikes me first is that the (undated? WTF?) clip is almost certainly shot
on the northernmost Yellowstone road that runs essentially east-west from the "North Entrance" to the "Northeast Entrance."
In short, whether trotting east or west, the Bison would not be "escaping" the caldera! :p

p.s. Here's a dash cam shot of them lounging about my campsite in January
Yellowstone Tent : Bison B 1:15:14.jpg
And when three dozen 1,500 to 2,000 lb. animals with horns are advancing towards you, it gets your attention.
Bison coming towards truck, Jan 2014.jpg


These are great pictures!!!

so are you saying that only 20-30 Bison are smart enough to know that impending doom is coming??? /sarcasm
 
Snopes and IFLS both have debunks on it.
http://www.snopes.com/critters/gnus/yellowstone.asp
http://www.iflscience.com/environment/yellowstone-about-erupt
So why fleeing bison? Yellowstone tweeted this earlier today, channeling House Stark: “The real reason animals leave the park? Winter.” Mammals tend to migrate to lower elevations outside of the park where food resources are likely to be more abundant. When the snow melts, "those very same animals will walk right back to the park,” Nash adds. Oh and also, the video of running bison was filmed weeks (at least) before Sunday’s earthquake.
Read more at http://www.iflscience.com/environment/yellowstone-about-erupt#4RVzu6gppgVKsvVQ.99
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Isn't it Spring though?
 
Snopes and IFLS both have debunks on it.
http://www.snopes.com/critters/gnus/yellowstone.asp
http://www.iflscience.com/environment/yellowstone-about-erupt
So why fleeing bison? Yellowstone tweeted this earlier today, channeling House Stark: “The real reason animals leave the park? Winter.” Mammals tend to migrate to lower elevations outside of the park where food resources are likely to be more abundant. When the snow melts, "those very same animals will walk right back to the park,” Nash adds. Oh and also, the video of running bison was filmed weeks (at least) before Sunday’s earthquake.
Read more at http://www.iflscience.com/environment/yellowstone-about-erupt#4RVzu6gppgVKsvVQ.99
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Isn't it Spring though?

It was not spring, weeks before the Earthquakes...It just became spring.
 
These are great pictures!!!

so are you saying that only 20-30 Bison are smart enough to know that impending doom is coming??? /sarcasm
Thanks.
Bison are peculiar animals:
On one hand they seem to understand that humans are no physical match for them…especially a herd of them.

But I've also seen forty of them sprint away, terrified, by the unexpected flapping of the wings of a common loon.

There is little nutrition under the winter snow, so they go to lower elevations…

Don't F With this Bison r.jpg
This is the look that says it's time to create more space
Resting Bison r.jpg
This guy is just resting
swinging that big head to move snow to find un-nutritious plant life is exhausting
No Privacy.jpg
My snowstorm tent is being spied upon
 
I can't seem to get a definitive location and direction...was it in the park or outside north of Gardner?

I worked at Mammoth hot springs for a summer and have spent a lot of winter time in the park as well over the last 20yrs...its really not uncommon for bison to use roads especially in the winter...and its really not uncommon for bison to be on the move for any number of reasons. It could have been pressure by wolves. Maybe the first Grizzly of the season poked its head at them? Sometimes herds (of any ungulate) just get up a head of steam on the move-The northern bison and elk herds in the park migrate north into Paradise Valley every year. they were not running for their lives in the immediate sense it was more of steady trot...This doesn't seem particularly odd to me...but my mom sent it to me concerned- so its making the viral rounds for sure

Nice pics @No Party - where were you camping? in the Lamar?
 
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I can't seem to get a definitive location and direction...was it in the park or outside north of Gardner?

I worked at Mammoth hot springs for a summer and have spent a lot of winter time in the park as well over the last 20yrs...its really not uncommon for bison to use roads especially in the winter...and its really not uncommon for bison to be on the move for any number of reasons. It could have been pressure by wolves. Maybe the first Grizzly of the season poked its head at them? Sometimes herds (of any ungulate) just get up a head of steam on the move-The northern bison and elk herds in the park migrate north into Paradise Valley every year. they were not running for their lives in the immediate sense it was more of steady trot...This doesn't seem particularly odd to me...but my mom sent it to me concerned- so its making the viral rounds for sure

Nice pics @No Party - where were you camping? in the Lamar?
Thanks SR,
I was camping in Mammoth…snowshoeing and skiing into the Lamar. It's nothing short of amazing.
Yes, the bison really NEED to use the roads, to conserve precious calories, trying to survive 'til ~May.

Lone Bison on road.jpg
Lone bison, using the road…conserving strength…to resist wolves


Bison down.jpg
Bison that couldn't resist wolves…nervous coyote finishing carcass


Female Black wolf 926F 1:18:14 r.jpg
Wolf 926F…two year old black female…possible culprit (w/ 925M gray wolf) re. bison above

Bull Elk Yellowstone Jan 2014.jpg
Gorgeous bull elk chilling with two others in Lamar Valley in light snowfall


(some day I'll get around to putting up hi-res versions of some of these on Flickr or whatnot)
 
I live not all that far from there and I saw a local-ish TV report from a [park] ranger who lives close to where that vid was taken. He said the buffs were actually running toward the interior of the park, not away from it and that they could be seen running like that on about any day you choose. I prolly saw the story on KECI out of Missoula.
 
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I live not all that far from there and I saw a local-ish TV report from a [park] ranger who lives close to where that vid was taken. He said the buffs were actually running toward the interior of the park, not away from it and that they could be seen running like that on about any day you choose. I prolly saw the story on KECI out of Missoula.
Yes, Soulfly (in post 7) mentioned Snopes http://www.snopes.com/critters/gnus/yellowstone.asp
and that link alone destroys the whole false narrative for virtually any rational person
 
Are bison supposedly more attuned to this? Poor bears, they won't apparently wake up in time to get a clue and "run, run for your lives, run".
 
Are bison supposedly more attuned to this? Poor bears, they won't apparently wake up in time to get a clue and "run, run for your lives, run".
i dot know if all bears are the same, but seems they can wake up whenever.
Black bears keep their heads and torsos warm enough that they can wake if disturbed, though some may take awhile to do so. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/bear-essentials-of-hibernation.html
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besides I imagine they are awake by now.
 
The bears around here aren't awake yet but I'm at a higher lat than Yellowstone.

Besides, have they awoken and started bugging out of the park?
 
Poor bears, they won't apparently wake up in time to get a clue and "run, run for your lives, run".

Well, if they're "Yogi" bears, then they're busy meditating, or in some odd position...like "Down Dog".

OTOH, Yogi Berra will say, "If you come to a fork in the road.........take it."
 
Yes, Yellowstone Public Affairs Chief Al Nash said, the March 30 earthquake was the biggest Yellowstone has seen in 34 years. However, Nash said some people living less than a mile away from the quake’s epicenter, which was located in the Norris Geyser Basin, didn’t even feel the earth shake.

The 4.8 quake was part of a series of smaller quakes that have hit the greater Yellowstone region over the past few weeks. Many believe those quakes are linked to a recent 5.1-magnitude quake (and aftershocks) that hit in the Los Angeles region earlier in March.

This news didn’t seem all that alarming to Nash, who said the park experiences 1,000 to 3,000 earthquakes every year.

“It’s just part of the geological situation we find here in Yellowstone,” he said.

Nash also addressed the reports that a large number of animals — particularly bison and elk — have been seen leaving the park in recent weeks. He didn’t deny the reports, either. He confirmed them.

“We did have a large group of bison, elk and other animals that moved outside the park recently,” Nash said. “They do it every year around this time in an effort to move to lower elevations where they can find food that’s easier to access. When things start to green back up, those same animals will walk right back into the park.”

http://wtkr.com/2014/04/04/are-animals-really-fleeing-yellowstone-national-park/

Its probably the bison migration that keeps the super volcano from erupting......
 
Found this article and hope it helps. The writer discusses how its not uncommon for elk and bison to leave the park in search for food and then they make their way back in early spring.

http://www.rgj.com/story/news/2014/04/03/bison-running-in-yellowstone/7274233/
A YouTube video posted on March 14 shows bison running along a road in Yellowstone. The video has been viewed nearly 96,000 times. The original YouTube post explains that the bison are running from "Mammoth Hot Springs eastward along the roadway and deeper into the park."

Somehow that video was picked up and circulated around the Internet with the information changed to say the bison were leaving the park, perhaps running for their lives. Even national news organizations, such as USA Today, posted the video, with the addition of ominous music accompanying the galloping bison.

The man who originally posted the video who goes by "Yellowstone Leo" on YouTube lives and works in Yellowstone year round.

"I am blessed to witness them (bison) running ... in a celebration of life, in a celebration of the coming richness of the Spring Season ... and running for the sheer joy of being able to," Yellowstone Leo wrote when he posted the video.

He doesn't mention anything about impending doom or super volcanoes.

The video was originally posted nearly two weeks before the recent earthquake, not days before as some sources state.

Anytime a scientific article comes out about geologic activity in Yellowstone or an earthquake gets noticed by the general public, "the chicken little crowd comes out of hiding," Nash said.

It's normal for bison and elk to leave the park in early spring, he said.

"What we typically see this time of year is the animals are hungry," Nash said.

Spring hasn't hit much of Yellowstone yet, so the animals migrate to lower elevations, often located outside the park, to look for fresh grass and other food.

"As the snow melts and things get green in the park, they'll walk back in," he said.

Earthquakes and other seismic activity are also common in the park.

"A 4.8 earthquake all by itself ... in terms of geology and geologic time is not a significant action," Nash said. "Yellowstone is a very seismically active location."

It's also heavily studied and monitored by geologists and other scientists.

"This is one of the most highly scientifically monitored locations on earth," Nash said.

If Yellowstone's super volcano was about to blow, scientists would likely know well ahead of time through their seismic monitoring.

"We have seen no signs to suggest that the Yellowstone volcano is about to erupt," he said.
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Take a look at Tuner Radio Network, the video uploaders' website. http://www.turnerradionetwork.com/ Nothing but Fear mongering conspiracy theories.
I especially like the headline which states: Visually Confirmed: Enormous Craft Detected on the Moon!!!! Actually I cannot even find the Bison video on the site but they do think an Earthquake is going to hit Yellowstone any day. Based on previous articles about the topic..

The one thing I find odd about this, is that on the original video they didn't link to their website, or any website. As is found with most CTs. I wonder if the uploader knew how popular this would become, so he chose not to promote anything as to create the illusion that it is a real story from a real news network!
 
I wonder if the uploader knew how popular this would become, so he chose not to promote anything as to create the illusion that it is a real story from a real news network!


The real uploader had no idea that the CT crowd would latch onto this one. This is the ORIGINAL video upload.





The spreading anxiety was caused by baseless rumors and deliberate misrepresentations of what those bison were actually doing in the video, according to Leo Leckie, a sales associate of the nonprofit Yellowstone Assn., an educational partner of Yellowstone National Park.

Leckie ought to know. He shot the video, which lasts 1 minute and 9 seconds and was originally posted March 14 on his Facebook page under the title, “Yellowstone bison on the run for the joy of Spring.”

“Those bison were running for the sake of running,” Leckie said in an interview Thursday. “There was nothing chasing them. There was no mudslide. They were just running.”

Added Leckie: “And they were running into the park, not away from it.”

The trouble started two weeks later, “after we had a swarm of earthquakes here — one of them a 4.8.”

“That’s when things really exploded,” he said. “Eruptionists and conspiracists pirated the video and misrepresented it, suggesting that it was shot after the earthquakes. Then news agency after news agency started picking up on it, without looking at the original video to see what my actual intent was.”

“My little video went from 20 hits to more than 90,000 hits,” he said. “It’s amazing how quickly and rapidly information can be repackaged to convey something other than its original intent.”
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The real uploader had no idea that the CT crowd would latch onto this one. This is the ORIGINAL video upload.





The spreading anxiety was caused by baseless rumors and deliberate misrepresentations of what those bison were actually doing in the video, according to Leo Leckie, a sales associate of the nonprofit Yellowstone Assn., an educational partner of Yellowstone National Park.

Leckie ought to know. He shot the video, which lasts 1 minute and 9 seconds and was originally posted March 14 on his Facebook page under the title, “Yellowstone bison on the run for the joy of Spring.”

“Those bison were running for the sake of running,” Leckie said in an interview Thursday. “There was nothing chasing them. There was no mudslide. They were just running.”

Added Leckie: “And they were running into the park, not away from it.”

The trouble started two weeks later, “after we had a swarm of earthquakes here — one of them a 4.8.”

“That’s when things really exploded,” he said. “Eruptionists and conspiracists pirated the video and misrepresented it, suggesting that it was shot after the earthquakes. Then news agency after news agency started picking up on it, without looking at the original video to see what my actual intent was.”

“My little video went from 20 hits to more than 90,000 hits,” he said. “It’s amazing how quickly and rapidly information can be repackaged to convey something other than its original intent.”
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I know, I've read the whole story. I think it's sick that people are allowed to do this. It's a shame because the guy seems really nice and he was just shooting some videos about Bison. It should be a cool video regardless of whether or not the doomsdayers pirate it and completely mislead the public. That's like taking NoParty's amazing photos and doing something similar.
 
...Then news agency after news agency started picking up on it, without looking at the original video ...

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This is where scombrid gets angry. This is why scombrid doesn't watch television or pay any attention to broadcast news. This is where scombrid had to delete an entire paragraph from the post because his opinion of the media violates the metabunk politeness policy.
 
This is where scombrid gets angry. This is why scombrid doesn't watch television or pay any attention to broadcast news. This is where scombrid had to delete an entire paragraph from the post because his opinion of the media violates the metabunk politeness policy.

It would have gone viral with or without the cable news channels picking it up. We're lucky to have news channels that way Yellowstone was allowed to get the word out quickly that it was not true!
 
This is where scombrid gets angry. This is why scombrid doesn't watch television or pay any attention to broadcast news. This is where scombrid had to delete an entire paragraph from the post because his opinion of the media violates the metabunk politeness policy.

Just a point of clarification..... I did a quick Google search to see what media had covered the story and how. The Mainstream media that came up pretty much only covered the story to debunk it. On the other hand, the 'alternative media' (in this case the conspiracy profiteering websites) were the only ones that I saw misrepresenting the story.... though there had been a number of them that also exposed the story as bunk.
 
This is where scombrid gets angry. This is why scombrid doesn't watch television or pay any attention to broadcast news. This is where scombrid had to delete an entire paragraph from the post because his opinion of the media violates the metabunk politeness policy.
Does the Scombrid always refer to himself in the first person? LOL
 
Just to reiterate that bison have historically left Yellowstone to migrate northward during winter, here is an article detailing the hazing of bison back towards the Park...lest they (supposedly) spread brucellosis to nearby cattle.

The hazing of the bison and the occasional culling of bison outside the park is a yearly political fight in SW MT that is rivaled only by wolves.

http://www.bozemandailychronicle.co...4.html?sourceurl=homepage&sourceblk=top-story


This is the second winter that Montana agencies have allowed bison to roam a larger area north of Gardiner and Yellowstone National Park, and more bison have taken advantage of it this year due to the deeper snows inside the park.

The expanded area — about 70,000 acres of mostly public land surrounding the Gardiner Basin extending 15 miles north to the mouth of Yankee Jim Canyon — is part of a 2011 adaptive adjustment to the Interagency Bison Management Plan to provide more territory for park bison at a time when brucellosis is not a threat.

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Think any of the doomsday profits will lose any credibility over this; it having been revealed that the bison migration is normal and when the massive explosion that they are predicting doesn't happen?
 
Think any of the doomsday profits will lose any credibility over this; it having been revealed that the bison migration is normal and when the massive explosion that they are predicting doesn't happen?
One would hope, but that's rarely ever the case.
 
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Think any of the doomsday profits will lose any credibility over this; it having been revealed that the bison migration is normal and when the massive explosion that they are predicting doesn't happen?
Noooo, it will be evidence that the expose' of this conspiracy by the ruling Elite caused the planned eruption to be canceled. Hero status for all involved!
 
Hazing rituals! U.S. Parks Service should be investigated for thus. What are they making these Bison do, binge drink and perform mock sex acts?
I too was confused and taken back by that choice of word, "Hazing". Strictly by definition it doesn't sound good, but I would imagine they aren't harassing or harming the animals, but if anyone knows what "hazing" methods they use to get them back into the park I would love to hear it.
 
I too was confused and taken back by that choice of word, "Hazing". Strictly by definition it doesn't sound good, but I would imagine they aren't harassing or harming the animals, but if anyone knows what "hazing" methods they use to get them back into the park I would love to hear it.
"There's a keg of beer hidden somewhere in the park. First Bison pledge to find it gets to pick who drinks and who cleans up"
 
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