1ºDavid Bitz you said “we”. You work in the park? I would never have considered that the personal who work the park to be inexpert in bison biology. But, yes it does seem uncaring. I understand what you are saying. I do not have the education in that field to either agree or disagree. But I would like to see a fostering option (human or animal, maybe a cow) should such an incident happen again. And let’s face it, it will happen again. People are not going to stand around and watch a calf drown. They probably won’t even wait and give the mother a chance to come after the infant.
2ºLori Ramona I’m in favor of protecting this land and it’s creatures the way I was traditionally taught. I’m not in favor of putting down an animal when there are other options that make sense. I also wish they could have done something that would have allowed this calf to have a prosperous life. Unfortunately that wasn’t the outcome.
It seems like you have an alternative option that seems like a great one. I’m just curious what you expect the national park service to do with a calf that has now presented itself as a danger while waiting for your option to get there. Based on the comments back to my question no one has a viable option for this part of the process. So here lies the problem. We want to save and protect the creatures on this land like we’ve been taught and have the resources to do that but it’s the i between time that presents the logistical problem. I hope you figure that problem out so you can protect the land and creatures we as natives have been put here to protect.
3ºJust as when people think they are saving deer fawns and elk calves and bear cubs and such, it's human interference in natural selection and it can have disastrous consequences. The result of putting a wild bison calf in a domestic herd is unpredictable. For one, domestic buffalo are bred to be docile and even if hand raised, that calf can become one mean animal. If it killed a person, would the parks be blamed? Second, wild buffalo have different immunities than domestic and bringing a wild animal into the herd could introduce a disease and make the herd or the calf sick. It would have to be raised in isolation at a major expense. I'm sure you can find examples of people who raised orphan buffalo successfully. But, there are also examples of people who were injured or killed because they tried to raise a wild animal as a pet. We have to except that nature only remains natural when we don't interfere with any part of the process including the parts that make us uncomfortable.
4ºRobert Huffman even if that’s the case, there was no need for him to get involved.
What if this man tried helping out an baby animal in distress and mama comes out of nowhere and kills the man. Then people would be saying, he should have followed the laws and he’d still be alive. Those laws are in place for the safety of not only the park guest, but the animals as well. Follow them. If you seen an animal in distress, imminent danger or not, leave it and notify a park Ranger. Get out of your feelings. It’s nature. Animals die everyday because of it.
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