There Are Buffalo -- And Then There Are BUFFALO

American Bison really are handsome animals - especially Yellowstone's!  Solid.  Patient.  Immovable!  They are the largest land animal still existing in North America.

These dudes are one of the largest wild "bovids" in the world.  

The Asian gaur:

and the wild Asian water buffalo:

are the only larger wild bovids.  A bovid is "any of a family of ruminants that have hollow, unbranched, permanently attached horns present in both sexes and that includes antelopes, oxen, sheep, and goats."  A ruminant is an animal that chews it's cud and has a complex 3- or 4-chambered stomach.


Okay.  End of school today.  Back to pictures of our roaming buffalo...

Seriously.  Wouldn't you get tired of the paparazzi from sun up to sun down, hounding you like a pack of hungry wolves?  Literally getting in your face...  Granpa and I didn't go looking for our animals.  If they were on the road, fair game.  But we didn't go hiking off into the wilderness. 

I suppose that's something everyone needs to know about vacationing:  You don't HAVE to go hiking to see amazing things.  If you can get in a car, you can see some wonderful stuff.  So, GO!  (And if you're 62 or over, get a Senior Pass at the National Park and get in for free for the rest of your life

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