YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK – Despite what you may have seen online, the animals are not fleeing Yellowstone National Park.
This is the original video of a bison stampede taken at the iconic park by Grant Johnson, wildlife expert and lead guide at Yellowstone Safari Company.
One person who gave himself the title of “animal expert” on social media recently reposted this same video along with satirical and joking comments about bison leaving Yellowstone and heading to Salt Lake City. Many people took the post and another one like it literally, despite the narrator’s outrageous commentary filled with off-the-wall claims and non-existent words like “grizzle bears,” “bison buffaloes,” “scienlific,” and “populancer.”
“The problem is that there are many people who don’t seem to understand that he’s joking, and it’s causing quite a bit of hysteria online,” said Johnson. “The bison in that video were about 10 miles from the boundary of the park, and they were moving further INTO the park, not migrating out of it.”
The National Park Service tried to clear things up with a humorous social media post of its own.
“You may have seen videos or ‘herd’ online that the bison population in Yellowstone was leaving. “That is false,” wrote the National Park Service on Instagram. “In conclusion, as Abraham Lincoln once said, ‘don’t believe everything you see on tiktok.’ Something like that.”
“Yellowstone is a dynamic place, and things do change all the time, but there is nothing unusual going on right now. It’s as wild and beautiful as it always is,” said Johnson.
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