"John A. Lind" wrote:
> At Fort Riley, Kansas we had a fenced game preserve set aside for a herd of
> buffalo. These _are_ wild animals, and they're substantially bigger than
> domestic cattle. They apparently look enough like cattle that Army
> personnel had to occasionally rescue someone who climbed over the fence to
> pet them. The bulls did not take kindly to anyone around the herd of cows
> (females) and would quickly become very aggressive, not to mention the cows
> which were would become just as aggressive if there were any young calves
> around.
Last fall a Japanese tourist was killed by buffalo in Teton National
Park in Wyoming. According to the story he was driving down the road saw
a herd of buffalo grazing near a fenceline. He stopped, as have I and
many others have, to photograph them. His mistake was he went over the
fence to get a better photograph. He ended up inbetween some adults and
the calves. An adult buffalo charged and he was killed.
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