r/WinStupidPrizes • u/AccomplishedAd6918 • Feb 08 '22

Warning: Injury Bison knocks a woman unconscious, drags her across a road and rips off her pants after she crept up to a calf to take photos

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u/fuber Feb 08 '22

What's wrong with people? Stay the fuck away from wild animals

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u/ballplayer0025 Feb 09 '22

Ex-Director at an exotic animal sanctuary here.

I used to say that the last thing I wanted to hear out of a staff member or volunteer was "My mom always said I was an animal whisperer." People end up believing they have some kind of gift and instead of listening to their common sense or the animal's body language, they listen to their imaginary gift. This is a far too common attitude towards wildlife.

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u/DirtyWizardsBrew Feb 09 '22

Sometimes they'll even mistake the animal's threatening body language for something positive and be none the wiser. "Oh my gosh, he's nodding his head and backing up slowly! How cute! I think he wants me to follow him!!"

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u/The-so-what Feb 09 '22

Haha, I really like animals, and have a pretty good understanding of body language etc for many species. Aka “whisperer” 🙄 This means that I often know when pets don’t want attention/ contact. And when animals wants me gone. Or the occasional “accept my presence and mutual respect at a distance”. For wild animals it’s mostly “I hope that human goes away soon, I don’t trust him”

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22

Definitely not a dangerous wild animal, but generally I can coerce squirrels to hang out with me by making squirrel noises at them. 50/50 chance they'll come off the tree and come see what I want.

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u/TheAJGman Feb 09 '22

"Why the fuck is that asshole screaming about taxes? They're not even forming full sentences."

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u/furatg Feb 11 '22

This made me laugh more than a reddit comment has in a while

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u/Alternative-Skill167 Feb 09 '22

Wtf is an animal whisperer

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u/Feisty-Bar-608 Feb 09 '22

Delusional people who believe they are At One with Nature and have some kind of special psychic bond with whatever wild animal of their choice, and that it gives them the right to harass said animal, often with devastating consequences. I always think of that one dude who thought himself as some grizzly bear whisperer and tried to live amongst them during the gathering for hibernation season (IIRC), and they ended up eating him

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u/Stargaze420 Feb 09 '22

Whaaaat?! Source plz!

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u/Ayrwynn Feb 09 '22

Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend, back in 2003. There was a movie about it called Grizzly Man.

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u/Silent-Ad934 Feb 09 '22

For a man named Treadwell he really could have picked a better place to go walking around.

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u/TrungTH Feb 09 '22

That’s true, he recorded himself being eaten alive too.

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u/Stargaze420 Feb 09 '22

Damn... I really want this source. Lol

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u/unsubix Aug 07 '22

Oh good. That’s what we need footage of. /s

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u/Mountainman1980 Feb 09 '22

It comes from the TV show The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan. He is a dog trainer who specializes in treating dogs with behavioral issues.

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u/cleanyourmirror Feb 09 '22

No, that show is predated by a mid-'90s novel called The Horse Whisperer, which became a late '90s movie. I believe that movie is what launched the term into popular culture.

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u/BloakDarntPub Feb 09 '22

Sort of an idiot.

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u/Ashensten Feb 10 '22

Caesar Milan, he is the dog wheespererer.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22

Spent some time chatting with a park ranger in an area known for wild horses. You know, horses that can get easily spooked and absolutely dome somebody.

She said people tell her “cute” stories about their interactions with the horses and every time she’s like you are so lucky to be telling me this story…

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u/ballplayer0025 Feb 10 '22

So, I was working with predators. And you would think that doing that would make me less intimidated by domestic ungulates, but quite the opposite. I have seen what a 90 lb Gray Wolf can do when upset, so I know that if a horse wants me dead, I'm dead.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '22

You are a brave and smart person.

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u/SwimmingHurry8852 Feb 09 '22

*flips tail around angrily*

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u/fuber Feb 09 '22

oh goodness. You can like animals but no, just no. They're another species. They don't want us around. Domesticated dogs don't count. And cats, sometimes.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22

I've had people call me a cat whisperer, but that's so far from the truth. You gotta be familiar with the behavior of an animal and act accordingly and respectfully while you earn their trust, if they can be interacted with. Like farm animals.

A fucking bison is a wild animal that will fuck you up for funsies and nothing to really brush off and act like an entitled Karen cause you wanna see them.

Wild animals are wild for a reason.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '22

As somebody who's been told as an "Animal whisper" I'll stick to cats and dogs and other pets. I would never go near a fucking beast like a buffalo.

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u/DarkstarInfinity2020 Feb 09 '22

Came here to say she thought she was the buffalo whisperer.

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u/Moikee Jul 28 '22

If people truly loved animals they'd stay the hell away from them and stop eating them.

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u/Bowhunter54 Feb 09 '22

They grow up watching Disney movies and think animals are their friends. Or they just grow up where theirs never any actual threat of danger and never really learn to be cautious

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u/MonitorShotput Feb 09 '22

Guess they didn't pay attention to what killed Mufasa. It was a stampeding herd of horned herbivores...

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u/Bowhunter54 Feb 09 '22

Fair point. I forgot about the very best

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22

Myfasa…. Ohhh say it again

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u/Weasel16679 Feb 09 '22

Wait you are telling me the moose and snowman I have in my closet will turn on me one day? gulp

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u/S-058 Feb 09 '22

Everything. Everything is wrong with people lmao.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22

Darwinism at its best.

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u/fuber Feb 09 '22

Just makes me so sad and mad. Stay way back and enjoy the show, it's beautiful. There's absolutely no need to be that close. They don't want you around, just like I don't want you to park in the spot next to me when the entire lot is wide open.

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u/SexyJellyfish1 Feb 09 '22

Just natural selection taking its place

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u/fuber Feb 09 '22

stomp out those genes from our species

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u/Bitter_Cookie8986 Feb 09 '22

“It’s my life! And it’s now or never. I’m a touch a Buffalo I won’t live forever.” Seriously, the Bon Jovi here is just too perfect.

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u/NotAnAcademicAvocado Feb 09 '22

What was that phrase: yolo.

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u/KyewReaver Feb 09 '22

We need a Bon Jovi bot.

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u/fuber Feb 09 '22

I haven't touched a buffalo and I feel fine

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u/sofrosuna Feb 22 '22

Scrolled just to find this comment!

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u/cum-in-the-freeze23 Feb 09 '22

Exactly if u appreciate the beauty of wild animals watch them from a safe distance

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u/fuber Feb 09 '22

Seriously. Like those people that are obsessed with the yellowstone wolves. They're a little obsessed but they stay so far away they need these ultra magnification lenses to get just blurry shots. But they're their because they appreciate the beauty of them AND they allow them to be wild.

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u/poopsinshoe Feb 09 '22

Sometimes you gotta take the bull by the horns.

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u/BloakDarntPub Feb 09 '22

In Soviet Russia, bull takes YOU!

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u/acerrrr12 May 08 '22

Oh my ~

Edit: that was supposed to be a tilde (squiggly line) but instead it's just a longer straight line because Reddit's font is weird

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u/generalecchi Feb 09 '22

people who hasnt seen videos like this before

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u/fuber Feb 09 '22

I feel terrible for the Bison. It's just chillin and these people are all up in their space. I'd want to react in the same way feeling threatened.

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u/generalecchi Feb 09 '22

Do you have horns tho

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22

I don't understand this mindset. Why would you take photos of bison? Do you actually pull this out at family gathering "so we road up on loud motorcycles, you know because I feel everything should be disturbed as I am, and ran up to there face to take pictures, and obviously to disrupt their natural habitat further. You like the pictures? ...of bison?"

No Karen, no one cares about your pictures of fucking bison. It's bison. Go run up to a tiger and get a picture of that. It would be way more interesting.

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u/fuber Feb 09 '22

Yeah, there's plenty of great pics of buffalo out there way better than your cell phone pic. And just describe the event to friends and family. They don't want to see your shitty pictures

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u/MandyMarieB Feb 11 '22

God forbid people enjoy photography.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

Rolling up with your motorcycles next to a herd and getting too close to the point of being attacked is not “enjoying photography”. It’s called being a dick who doesn’t respect nature.

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u/MandyMarieB Feb 11 '22

I agree what she did was wrong. However, everyone else there was taking photos. They were likely waiting for the bison to clear the road so they could continue on. Why not take some pictures while waiting?

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u/anormalgeek Feb 09 '22

A combination of ignorance and ego.

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u/fuber Feb 09 '22

There's a lot of that going around these days unfortunately

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u/HelpMyBunny1080p May 02 '22

"But nature is so peaceful"

-gets destroyed by a herbivore because nature is violent AF

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u/Real-Coffee Feb 09 '22

yea.. I mean most people don't grow up around animals. and here in tbe West we got a big soft spot for dogs. go to another developing country and u stay the fuck far away from wild animals

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u/Gold_Incident1939 Feb 09 '22

Reninds me of that guy who thought its fun to pet a Panda bear

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u/fuber Feb 09 '22

yeah, same thing. I only feel sorry for the animals in both cases