The recent appearance of a rare white bison calf has excited wildlife watchers in Yellowstone National Park. Many from far and wide are keeping a close watch for the elusive animal since Montana wildlife photographer Erin Braaten got several photos of the calf with its mother on June 4, soon after its birth.
Visitors to Yellowstone National Park are seen looking for wildlife through binoculars in the Lamar Valley area of Yellowstone National Park, Thursday, June 13, 2024, near Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyo. The park has about 5,000 buffalo, or bison. A rare white buffalo calf, reportedly born in Yellowstone National Park’s Lamar Valley, is shown on June 4, 2024, in Wyo.
They turned around and pulled over to watch and shoot photos of the calf with its mother for over half an hour.Reported birth of rare white buffalo calf in Yellowstone park fulfills Lakota prophecyDespite throngs of visitors with scopes and photographers with telephoto lenses in the Lamar Valley, a prime spot for wildlife viewing in Yellowstone, few others saw the calf and no sightings have been reported since.
Usually, white bison are born in ranch herds due to interbreeding with cattle. They are rare but not unheard of, with births making local headlines every so often.In any event, a wild white buffalo is exquisitely rare — maybe even unheard of in Yellowstone, one of the last sanctuaries for free-roaming American bison. The animals once numbered in the tens of millions before commercial hunting drove them to near extinction. Yellowstone’s herd numbers about 5,000.
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