Why Are All The Bison Suddenly Running Away From Yellowstone?

Are you referring to the "viral" video?

Because Bison like to stampede, that is usually what they do. ?

Sure do hope there is no major disruption there. What are all the other animals doing ?

Donna, I have no clue here, I just head about it, but it seems there are many people REALLY concerned here. Maybe someone knows something about this.

It is not unusual every spring for they do this. They migrate from the higher elevations to the lower because they find food, Spring is sprouting in the lower elevations and so is vegetation.

They aren't. Don't believe everything you see. :)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/08/turns-out-a-video-of-bison-purportedly-fleeing-yellowstone-is-a-hoax.html

And also:

http://www.snopes.com/critters/gnus/yellowstone.asp

Actually in the video they are running INTO the park.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/08/turns-out-a-video-of-bison-purportedly-fleeing-yellowstone-is-a-hoax.html

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Or was that plaid boarders...

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Too much snow, not enough food? They feel the vibrations of the caldera ready to blow?

Here is a link I found. http://fox2now.com/2014/04/03/animals-leaving-yellowstone-park/

The local McDonald's started selling bison burgers?

Here is a link to information about a possible volcanic eruption in Yellowstone, which is not likely any time soon. The fact that it is active at all, however, is disconcerting.

http://www.nps.gov/yell/naturescience/volcanoqa.htm

Maybe they heard the economy is going to collapse!

Last paragraph of that Fox2 link: "Dan Hottle, Spokesman, Yellowstone National Park also says that the bison in this viral YouTube video were running into the park. “If I stayed on the phone with you for 15 min longer I can probably point the camera out the window and show you a bison running down my cul de sac.”

Problem solved.

I tell you what makes me nervous, and that is "experts" saying that volcano won't erupt for another million years. Yeah right. I have a hard time wanting to believe any comments from the very people paid to insure there is no panic and to keep "customers" coming.

I live just outside the Modern Madrid Fault Line and I pay close attention to my horses. They would know what's going on long before I would feel it or hear about it..........so animals can know what is going on before it happens.

It is my hope too that this is nothing, but in case it really is something to be concerned about, if nothing else it makes you ask what you are ready for in case something like this does happen.

Blame it on Obamacare.

You know, I post something of a CONCERN, and what do I get...STUPID COMMENTS. You folks know who you are.

ok lets say it happens - what do you do?

you can't do anything. volcano explodes, causes earthquakes and then tsunami's. hard to say how much of the volcano will destroy how much of the US, but it would blanket the world in ash and cool the planet and probably do some odd things with the weather. even if you knew it was going to erupt tomorrow - what can you possibly do to prepare? this isn't like a financial crises where you run down to the near megamart and stock up on german chocolate and cereal.

i'm not worried or thinking about it.


---Mike Savad

something of concern, it was reported as a hoax. done. thanks for your concern.

in either case i won't be visiting yellowstone any time soon.

---Mike Savad

but it is true that the bison are beset with a terrible threat: the humans. for years bison have attempted to escape the severe winters inside yellowstone but they are shot or hazed the moment they enter montana. 7,000 have been killed since the zero tolerance policy began. another six hundred are scheduled to be shot or herded to be shipped to slaughterhouses this spring to address the big dollar interests of the livestock industry.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/2/19/yellowstone-farmbillspendingonrarebacteriapitsbisonagainstbeef.html

Bill it is only a "concern" if you ignore the people that are telling you it is a HOAX.

RCV, Maybe the bison see humanity as the "volcano"? It's all about the money, isn't it? I would love to have bison here on the ranch instead of shooting them.

Mike, My mother lives 400 miles from Yellowstone. From what has been figured, everything within a thousand mile radius, can be GONE if that baby blows. What can be done? I told my mother to have a couple suitcases packed and ready to go....just in case, and if it blows.........DRIVE like crazy to get to where I am. You either have a PLAN in case of a "situation" or you have no plan. Intelligent people always have a "plan".

and then bring up fox news for the clarification after we said hoax... though i do like how they kept the proper side of the road, or at least to one side. very orderly for a panic.


---Mike Savad

Mike, does CNN pay you to diss FOX? Just wondering?

It's because the Apocalypse is near... again.

Bill, this was widely spread and then found to not be anything of concern

Mike and Bill. You know how I feel about your arguments (from the group) and they are not going to be allowed here on the main forum

Talking about an apocolypse is religious discussion so not allowed here

you should tell her to move... but really, where to? before becoming a geologist or some kind of volcano expert, look up some facts of what would happen if it did explode, from a reliable source. i don't know where you got that 1000 mile radius figure from. if it took out that much material all at once, she's gone before she even gets into the car. the pyroclastic flow alone would nab her. and the debris from the ground would bury the house. but look up the facts first.


---Mike Savad

Bill,

If that thing vaporizes 1,000 miles how is your mother going to drive to you...in the instant it takes to erupt? Aren't you inside that 1,000 mile radius? What good would it do to try to drive somewhere that will be destroyed?

One could also try to hide from a mile wide asteroid shooting towards earth or go outside and try to catch it. I won't hide, might as well enjoy the show before you are turned to ash.

Mike is right. Nothing can be done. It is a unsurvivable event. That is IF it happens during our life. That volcano has been there a LONG, LONG time. It COULD erupt this afternoon, it COULD erupt in 1,000 years. It is going to do what it's going to do and there is NOTHING we can do about it. Might as well relax.

It's obvious that the entire article was not read by the OP or ignored in favor of headline sensationalism because,

as Louise pointed out in her post:

"Last paragraph of that Fox2 link: "Dan Hottle, Spokesman, Yellowstone National Park also says that the bison in this viral YouTube video were running into the park. “If I stayed on the phone with you for 15 min longer I can probably point the camera out the window and show you a bison running down my cul de sac.”

Problem solved."

Anyone else think of this...

I look at it this way, why just bison? There are wolves and bears and big cats and they seem to be staying put.

The reporter I heard lives in Yellowstone and indicated it had to do with the recent 5.1 earthquake centered in La Habra, California. He said he lives on a cul-de-sac, where the bison were headed. It would be interesting, he said, to see how they might handle the cul-de-sac. Last I heard, that remained to be seen. (This was a serious report--not in jest, except as he tried to picture that happening.)

Unfortunately I did not get the name of the reporter nor the organization he represented, but it was for real.

This was accompanied by a graphic describing how ants were also vacating their homes in trees--very quickly!

that's the video i want to see, cars have a hard time around a cul-de-sac, imagine those things...of course you would need yackety sax in the background.

hopefully it won't happen, there are plenty of sites that will set up a scare tactic. one report said 500 miles, another said the size of the US or europe. others said 100's of feet thick of ash near by. this lists go on and on.

it would be more eerie if animals - all of them, came out before the earthquake, not after.

---Mike Savad

Here is what the National Park Service has to say (if you believe them)

Q: Is the volcano dormant or extinct or still active?

A: The Yellowstone Volcano is still active. Evidence for the activity of the Yellowstone Volcano are the 1,000 to 3,000 earthquakes per year, active ground deformation, and the over 10,000 thermal features found in Yellowstone.


Q: What is Yellowstone doing to prevent an eruption?

A: Nothing can be done to prevent an eruption. The temperatures, pressures, physical characteristics of partially molten rock, and the immensity of the magma chamber are beyond man's ability to influence--much less control.


Q: How will the park get the word out if there is an eruption?

A: The park would communicate accurate and timely information to park visitors, park employees, concessioners, surrounding communities, media outlets, and other interested parties through the park's 24-hour Communications Center; news releases; established emergency response programs; and through notification of appropriate interagency, state and local government agencies.


Q: Where would it be safe to be during an eruption?

A: For the most likely type of volcanic eruption in Yellowstone, everywhere would be safe except in the immediate vicinity of the advancing lava flow. In the highly improbable event of a large catastrophic eruption, the greater the distance from the eruptive center, the safer it would be. It is impossible to know the effects of the eruption without guessing at the explosivity of the highly unlikely eruption and the total amount of the material erupted.




http://www.nps.gov/yell/naturescience/volcanoqa.htm

@Marlene, The local McDonald's started selling bison burgers?

Ha! It'll never happen. It would mean they would be selling quality meat.

mostly i think the ash would be an issue, and flaming bison.


---Mike Savad

It's the same reason the chicken crossed the street.

They were running because they could not fly.

maybe this was that march panic i heard about, just a week late is all.


---Mike Savad

I hear the weather is nicer in Jellystone.

I talk to animals. I'd ask them what's going on but I can't find their cell phone numbers.

Why run, a super-volcano will still kill them and then they would just die tired. Bison know this....

It is the same reason I do not run from bears unless I am with a slow juicy fat kid I don't like much and am sure I can out run him. Bison also know this.

There was a good programme on about the "supervolcano" on a relatively serious science programme here (UK) last year. We're all doomed! Its overdue and if it goes we will be plunged into global darkness and the next dark ages. Just think of all the other problems that will sort out.

Yeah, gloom and doom, I remember a show like that around ten years ago about what would happen if a hurricane ever hit New Orleans. It'll never happen though.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/1999/supervolcanoes.shtml, The programme was a lot longer ago than I remembered, good job I don't mind getting old :)

/searches for the "like" button while laughing at JC.

Gotta remember that "slow juicy fat kid"-I'm old and slow so it'd be a race to the death. Literally.

Those bison were obviously concerned for their future jobs with all the National Parks shutdown talk.....

Look guys, I was in town today and a friend told me that this thing about the bison is all over Facebook at such. So, when I got home I looked it up and was concerned for my mother just in case there was some truth to it. Now me personally, I could care less, and that is because I have made it my job to be ready for whatever may come.I say "bring it on".

Now here is what bothers me. WHATEVER it may be (the biggest joke or something REALLY serious, almost everyone automatically makes a joke out of it, and there is something REALLY wrong with that, because when something MAJOR would come and you try to warn people....they will laugh at you when they should be running. Anyone get my drift?

I am my brother's keeper, so excuse me for giving a flip.

JC, I never hike without a disposable neighbor kid. Try slipping a little beef jerky in their pockets.


Snopes.com is my go-to for verifying/debunking internet craziness. Usually It's where I send my 84 year old Mother after she shares something about gang members egging your windshield to rob you or some such nonsense. Here's their information on the Yellowstone hoax.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/gnus/yellowstone.asp

"We do have bison, elk and other animals that have moved outside the park recently, but they're doing that because it's the depth of winter, food is a little hard to find in places inside Yellowstone, and they tend to migrate at this time of the winter outside the park to lower elevations where they think there might be something to eat that's easier to get at. When the snow melts off and things start to green up, those very same animals will walk right back into the park."

Your "warnings" have a way of not coming true Bill.

The boy that cried wolf.

But we joke because even if it WERE true there is NOTHING that can be done.


Ever see the movie "Deep Impact"? I loved the part where the woman and her father went to the beach instead of fighting the crowds trying to get out of the city. When the meteor hit, EVERYONE was screwed. The people trying to flee the city were killed among throngs of screaming people. The two on the beach had the place to themselves and one hell of a view!

Bill, I think the overarching point is don't spread misinformation. Don't warn people until you're certain the information is correct. Things didn't end well for Chicken Little.

it's all you can do bill, is joke about it. because we're going to be in it deep, no pun. there is no serious side because there isn't anything you can do. if you have concerns with your mother, have her move in with you. there's no point in moving when it erupts because it would be too late then. do it now when there is still time, she what she says about that. and i'm sure you care a little, you've been preparing for an event like this all your life.

but what are you warning us about? and how are you telling us to prepare? warnings are nice, but not telling us what to do isn't all that helpful. it's more like i told you so - kind of moment. like when a hurricane comes, people have a routine of what to do. this one isn't in the manual. but here's the thing, this is the most real thing you've warned us about. i know of (from you) - the power grid failing, the net going down, the financial crisis that was in march? the list goes on.and in all those cases, you didn't tell us what we can do to prepare.


---Mike Savad

yeah, and reread what cynthia just said - always check the facts with reliable sources - not conspiracy sites, not fox news, go to places that know their thing, parse that, come up with a plan, then tell people. otherwise - the sky is falling - plan - will usually backfire on you.

---Mike Savad

"I have no intention to start anything here...just ask this question: Why Are All the Bison Suddenly Running Away from Yellowstone National Park?"

"I have no intention to start anything here...just ask this question: Why Are All the Bison Suddenly Running Away from Yellowstone National Park?"

"I have no intention to start anything here...just ask this question: Why Are All the Bison Suddenly Running Away from Yellowstone National Park?"

I am never going hiking with JC. Lol


That is the problem with human nature Bill. Most of the people will never take notice or believe what is blatantly obvious , then there are those that are constantly engaged in hysteria & conspiracy theories.

It's quite simple: what are all the other animals doing , & is it a normal occurrence.

We answered you

We answered you

We answered you

Sometimes it's clear you're just trolling for attention. You posted your concern, you were given the correct information, a bunch of tangenital comments were made, some directed at you, some not. Welcome to the internet. You can't control other people's responses.

we told you already, they are going back to eat. it was a tough winter, read the posts we wrote, not the ones you wrote.


---Mike Savad

Anyone who has been to Yellowstone has seen stampedes of bison running to the interior of the park, running toward the outside of the park and probably every other direction in and around the park. It is what they do all the time. the frequently run in the road. Yellowstone is about due to blow give or take 10,000 or 100,000 years.

When it does I'd probably rather be there than to have to suffer in the mess after it goes off.

I don't know about erupting volcanoes, but I predict a thread closing in the near future.

Bill, you were answered no less than 5 times that it's a hoax, it was incorrect, the link you provided gave the answer that they were going IN the park, not retreating.

What really are you looking for here?

Non sequitur alert.

Louise, like I stated....I came home after hearing about this and went to look online. Sorry, I don't have hours and hours to look at ever site about the matter and though that maybe some folks here might have had some info since I am not on Facebook with umteen friends sharing the latest news.

Ok, so nothing is going to happen....except to the poor bison who just want to survive...right?

it's not hard, if it's too good to be true type in

fact hoax in google

or

fact snopes in google

and see what comes up. it takes minutes really.

the bison were not running for their lives - they were running INSIDE toward the volcano. they live there, it's where they eat. no one said nothing will happen, nothing with probably happen. the animals were just running.


---Mike Savad

https://www.google.com/search?q=running+bison+yellowstone+hoax
http://www.snopes.com/critters/gnus/yellowstone.asp

this took 5 seconds.


---Mike Savad

" Sorry, I don't have hours and hours to look at ever site about the matter and though that maybe some folks here might have had some info since I am not on Facebook with umteen friends sharing the latest news"

Bill, when you type "Yellowstone" into Google (you did say check out Google didn't you) the FIRST thing that comes up says...


"Turns Out, a Video of Bison Purportedly Fleeing Yellowstone Is a Hoax"


You don't need "hours and hours" to look, you only need to look at the very first return!

Ok fellas, thank you for your "assistance". You can all go back to whatever you were doing.

Come to think of it, I guess there is nothing wrong with seeing a herd of bison running down the highway. And AWAY from the mountains. Ok....silly me.

Carry on.

and if your worried about those animals, don't worry, they are doing fine. i heard they plan on making another video soon.


---Mike Savad

we are doing what we were doing.


---Mike Savad