This bison was part of a large herd right along the park road in the Lamar Valley of northeastern Yellowstone National Park. During our visit in early August 2015 we saw herds of bison almost everywhere around the Hayden and Lamar Valleys, where they traditionally hang out, but in numbers much higher than we remember seeing before. Bison are much larger in their forequarters than in their hindquarters partially as an adaptation to having to bulldoze through snow to get to forage in the winter. The herds we saw had a wide range of ages from massive old bulls to young calves born this year.
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