Bull bison sends Yellowstone visitor flipping through the air in campground attack caught on video

This is not one of them.CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE FROM OUTKICKA man was seriously injured Friday evening after an agitated bull bison chased him through a campground and launched him several feet into the air in one of the wildest human-animal encounters you will ever see.A Portrait of a Male Bison in Yellowstone National Park (Getty Images Creatives)The attack happened at Bridge Bay Campground, south of Fishing Bridge, and was captured on video by professional photographer Mike MacLeod.The unidentified man was reportedly walking with his grandson when the bison targeted them from roughly 100 yards away — well beyond the 25-yard minimum distance Yellowstone requires visitors to maintain from bison.And the video makes it clear this animal was already looking for trouble.Before the man and his grandson entered the picture, the bull had reportedly charged a group of children who were taking photos from a safe distance.The kids scattered, and the bison eventually stopped to wallow in a patch of dirt.That is when the man and his grandson came around the corner, unaware of everything that had just happened."They were just out for an evening walk, just happened to turn around the corner, and there’s a bison," MacLeod told Cowboy State Daily.The pair initially stopped to take photos while the animal appeared to be resting.
But when the bison started to stand, the grandfather recognized it was time to go, and the two moved behind a group of trees.Then a white pickup truck drove past.For whatever reason, that apparently sent the bull right back over the edge."The bison was charging the truck," MacLeod said.
"The guy in the truck saw that happening, and he just kept going.The bison (then went) to where these two were hiding in the trees."The footage shows the enormous animal barrel into the trees as the man desperately tries to stay on the opposite side of the trunks.
For a moment, the bison becomes distracted and takes its anger out on a small sapling.But then it sp...