re: Yellowstone authorities euthanized newborn bison calf after visitor interferes with it.

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I don't think there is a right thing in nature. Correct. Regardless of your feelings you have to refrain from helping.

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Incorrect. There are plenty of examples of people saving wildlife that otherwise would’ve perished and caused no harm

Saw a guy save a beached turtle in Australia when the tide receded the other day. dogs/raccoons/whatever in holes, baby birds falling from nests, etc.

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maybe he's just stupid and was trying to get attention while someone recorded him "helping". Inasmuch as he's in a national park with signs everywhere saying to leave the animals alone, I'm goona assume he was trying to make a social media video.

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this is probably the case, similar to the guy that got killed trying to be a duck crossing guard a few days ago, if mama had been nearby he could have gotten it too

I fricking hate humans. I really do.

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Sounds like guy was trying to do the right thing

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Guy was a moron. Don't frick with creatures out in nature. Dude is lucky as hell mom wasn't there.

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Could they not nurture the calf and put him up in a zoo enclosure or something? Or he could make friends with Ralphie and Prime up in Colorado.

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I guess I don't understand why everyone is thinking the world needed to waste a ton of resources on a baby bison. Assuming it didn't have some odd diseases, which is a large assumption, you'd have to send it to a place that can give it milk, even in transit, and tons of other hoops.

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Incorrect. There are plenty of examples of people saving wildlife that otherwise would’ve perished and caused no harm

Saw a guy save a beached turtle in Australia when the tide receded the other day. dogs/raccoons/whatever in holes, baby birds falling from nests, etc.

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Found a manatee calf in my slip one morning and called authorities because it appeared to be struggling. Before they arrived a group of lookie lous gathered oohing and ahhing over the baby manaterr. The mother was nearby and other than trying to push the baby to the under water she had clearly rejected the calf for some reason known only to her...but that was not cutting it...the crowd became sizeable and many of them were all in on catching calf and mother and transporting them to a rescue center on the mainland....at a cost of about $50k apparently, as it turned out. When the authorities arrived (local police and eventually a couple of biologists) they more or less told the onlookers if they did not want to see the mother drown the calf they'd best leave. Of course this set off a firestorm, the media arrived, folks crying like they had just liberated Dachau...and all the time the mother was attempting to submerge the calf in order to drown it...which she finally managed to do. It was a site for certain, and not one I would ever want to witness again, but there was some reason the mother rejected the calf and the people in the know...the biologists (and the people at the rescue place who told the crowd they could not help the calf at any cost) did the right thing...they allowed nature to do what nature does. Many of the people in that crowd would have intervened if the police had not arrived in time and the whole thing would have gotten infinitely worse...not for the calf, who was dying and eventually died anyway, but for the people watching and the authorities.

As a side note my buddy and I, who discovered the calf floundering between my boat and the walkway initially, were joking about how good that thing would be if roasted in the ground like a hog. We nearly needed a police escort out of there LOL. It didn't help that I asked a bystander "reckon what size fly rod I would need to land the mama manatee"....

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Sounds like guy was trying to do the right thing

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The right thing is to leave wildlife the frick alone. That's common knowledge. No better than these morons who try to take selfies with bears

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A feel good story saving a bison does more for our country than any of the resources went to ukraine and political corruption by the democrat party.

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I'd much rather have seen the money spent to save a baby bison over a disgruntled Griner

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What’s the last thing the mother said?

“Bi, son”

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that made my day