A trip to Yellowstone National Park turned into a nightmare for a group of tourists.

Cathy Hayes, a teacher from Utah, was catching a bison on video, joking with her husband, Jeff, and his brother, Donald, about getting a shot of Donald being gored by the animal — when Donald got too close – and it attacked.

The bison, clearly agitated, charged Donald and then Cathy, sending her into a panic. She ran for cover behind a tree, but the bison kept coming.

The car horn honking is clearly audible as Jeff tries to deter the bison. So is his yells of “Back,” and screams – with the video rolling all the while.

“I could hear him over me stomping and snorting,” Cathy said later, “and I just knew. I knew at that second that was it. You know, I thought, “This is going to be my last moment. It’s going to be in Yellowstone Park getting tromped by a buffalo.” ”

On The Early Show” Friday, Cathy told co-anchor Chris Wragge the bison “flipped me end-over-end like a rag doll, in the air.”

It turned out she didn’t suffer life-threatening injuries, but was pretty badly banged up. Her knee was the size of a football and she has big brusies ans scrapes on her leg. Donald broke his shoulder when he tripped and fell.

And the incident may not have been the bison’s fault.

A second look at Cathy’s video shows the animal was apparently provoked. It seems the bison was hit it in the back with a stick — a vivid reminder of the park’s policy to keep your distance from wildlife.

via Caught On Tape: Bison Attacks Tourists at Yellowstone – The Feed – CBS News.

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KOLKATA – Two people were killed and two others, including a policeman, were injured when two bisons entered a village in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar district Tuesday and attacked the villagers, forest department officials said.

The incident took place in Ghoksadanga village in Cooch Behar district, some 750 km from here, when two wild bisons entered the village and damaged a few houses there. Two villagers were killed and two others – a forest department official and a policeman – were injured.

“The injured forest official and the policeman have already been admitted with critical injuries to Mathabhanga Hospital nearby. They are undergoing treatment now,” a senior forest department official said.

One bison which was administered tranquiliser by the forest department team died while being taken to the forest.

The other bison was successfully sent back into the forest area using trained elephants, sources said.

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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK – For the second time this year a tourist at Yellowstone National Park has been attacked by a bison.

Wednesday morning around 11:30, according to a press release, a 55-year-old man from Norco, California, was taking pictures of a bull bison that was wandering in the Bridge Bay Campgrounds. The two were about 10 feet apart when the bison charged.

The man received what’s being called a “puncture” wound to his upper left thigh. He was treated at the Lake Clinic then transported to St. John’s Medical Center in Jackson, Wyoming. His injuries are not considered life threatening. His name has not been released.

The first tourist attacked this summer was a 50-year-old woman from Spain who was tossed in the air in the Canyon area. She was talking on a pay phone at the time.

According to park rangers a bull bison can stand six feet tall, weigh up to 2,000 pounds and run up to 30 miles an hour. During the next several weeks they are more dangerous than usual because it’s their mating season.

Park regulations require people to stay at least 25 yards away from most animals, like bison and elk, and at least 100 yards away from bears and wolves at all times. Tourists caught being too close can face a citation and fine.