In this case a little too close for comfort. Last year while we were vacationing in South Dakota we spent a couple of days in Custer State Park. This was just after they had completed the annual round-up of buffalo there, so when we saw them all congregated behind a not unsubstantial fence, we thought we’d stop to take a look.
Several people had the same idea and there were quite a few of us lined up along the fence taking photos. I was so engrossed in watching these beautiful animals but after a while I turned to notice that almost everyone else had melted away and there was only one other photographer between me and a very large buffalo that was wandering along towards us, only a few yards away, on the wrong side of the fence!
The man was still blissfully unaware of what was heading towards him so I called to him to “watch out!” and we both backed away towards our respective cars (but not without getting one last shot.) After I got inside the vehicle I realized that my husband was still standing outside on the driver’s side videotaping the whole thing and it didn’t occur to me until much later that I couldn’t remember hearing him warning me about what was happening! What was he planning on doing? Getting a once-in-a-lifetime shot of me being chased down the road by a buffalo? Thanks a lot!
Anyway, once again, all’s well that ends well and everyone came away unscathed.
Lol, …okay, so where is the video?
Thanks for stopping by! The video may emerge at a later date!
I hope you had a serious ‘discussion’ with hubby…
Yes, the usual thing. I yelled and he laughed!
That does sound serious… Glad you were unharmed and great way to express this photo challenge theme!
Great photo! Nice hubby…😊
Thanks! He’s a good guy really!
Scary being so close to that large animal!
It was, but now I wish I’d made more use of the opportunity.
That is really cool. For some reason, this reminds of something funny, too.
I work at North Dakota State University, and our mascot is the bison. So there’s pictures of bison everywhere. My kids can identify bison, and they don’t even know about buffaloes, etc.
Anyway, my cousin was coming to town, so I asked my coworkers for a good idea for a place to eat lunch with them. I said, something that would give them a taste of North Dakota (it was their first and only time in the state).
My coworker’s idea? Buffalo Wild Wings.
I said, you do realize that’s not a North Dakota themed restaurant? It’s a chicken wing themed restaurant. And isn’t even based around here. LOL. The North Dakotans want to claim Buffalo Wild Wings as their own. And we don’t even call them buffaloes.
Hmm. This story might only have been funny to me, now that I’ve written it out. Sorry about that!
I’m never sure whether to refer to them as buffalo or bison. Which is the correct name?
I guess buffalo are in Africa and bison are here? I don’t know. Let me wiki it. Oh, this is good stuff.
Members of the genus Bison are large, even-toed ungulates within the subfamily Bovinae. Two extant and four extinct species are recognized. The surviving species are the American bison, also known as the American buffalo (although it is only distantly related to the true buffalo), Bison bison (with two subspecies, the plains bison, Bison bison bison, and the wood bison, Bison bison athabascae), found in North America, and the European bison, or wisent (Bison bonasus), found in Europe and the Caucasus.
bison bison bison…that’s my kinda bison!
I guess we’ll go with bison! Good work, Sherlock!
Was hubby trying to win the $10,000 for America’s Funniest Videos? Glad nothing happened!
Thank goodness the bison wasn’t in a bad mood!
Great story and great shot!
Thanks, Melissa, and thank you for visiting!