In the past four weeks, three people have been injured by buffalos at Yellowstone National Park. 

On Wednesday, a 71-year old woman from Pennsylvania was attacked by a wild buffalo in the Wyoming portion of the park, Storm Point, near Yellowstone Lake, as she was approaching her car. The woman was transported to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. 

The National Park Service said in a news release, “The woman and her daughter inadvertently approached the bison as they were returning to their vehicle at the trailhead, causing the bull bison to charge.”

People are getting too close to the animals. They are advised by multiple signs to stay at least 25 yards away from most wildlife and even farther from wolves and bears. But people are gored by buffalo in Yellowstone every year. 

A few days ago, a 34-year-old man was gored on a path in the park. Video footage shows the man protecting a young boy from the charging buffalo and the man being injured instead.

‘The male was walking with his family on a boardwalk when a bull bison charged the group,’ the Park said in a statement.

‘Family members did not leave the area, and the bull bison continued to charge and gored the male.’

Last month, a bison killed a 25-year-old woman from Ohio after she got within ten feet of it. The animal impaled her with its horn and tossed her into the air. 

Yellowstone Park has had massive flooding and has just recently reopened to the public. Park officials have warned people that the flooding may have displaced animals and caused them to wander into places that could be more dangerous to visitors. 

In spite of the dangers, people continue to go to Yellowstone Park with their families.