{"id":15010,"date":"2016-06-04T00:02:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T00:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15010"},"modified":"2016-06-04T00:02:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T00:02:23","slug":"those-signs-are-up-for-a-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15010","title":{"rendered":"Those signs are up for a reason"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/BBtPTUl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15011\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/BBtPTUl-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"BBtPTUl\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/BBtPTUl-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/BBtPTUl.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yellowstone National Park officials are unambiguous about how people should interact with the wildlife that roam the park.<\/p>\n<p>Do not do it. Period.<\/p>\n<p>That didn&#8217;t deter a Canadian visitor and his son from interfering with Mother Nature when they grabbed a newborn bison and put it into their SUV, thinking they were saving its life.<\/p>\n<p>Well, they didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/canadian-men-defend-loading-yellowstone-bison-calf-into-vehicle\/ar-BBtPHPl?li=BBnb7Kz\">http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/canadian-men-defend-loading-yellowstone-bison-calf-into-vehicle\/ar-BBtPHPl?li=BBnb7Kz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shamash Kassam and his son, Shakeel, would learn in quick order just why the park insists that human beings keep their hands off these beasts.<\/p>\n<p>The park took the critter and then tried to re-integrate it with its herd. The mama bison rejected her baby, which then sought to approach other human beings, putting itself into imminent danger.<\/p>\n<p>It was then that park rangers had to euthanize the little critter.<\/p>\n<p>My hope is that rangers gave Papa and Son Kassam a serious tongue-lashing for interfering with Mother Nature&#8217;s way.<\/p>\n<p>Shamash Kassam said he and his son thought the animal was shivering. They didn&#8217;t want it exposed to the elements.<\/p>\n<p>How can the National Park Service make it any clearer?<\/p>\n<p>Human beings should not <em>ever<\/em> interact with wildlife, which are called &#8220;wildlife&#8221; for a reason.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yellowstone National Park officials are unambiguous about how people should interact with the wildlife that roam the park. Do not do it. Period. That didn&#8217;t deter a Canadian visitor and his son from interfering with Mother Nature when they grabbed a newborn bison and put it into their SUV, thinking they were saving its life. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15010\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Those signs are up for a reason<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[6281,3204,6223],"class_list":["post-15010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","category-national-news","tag-baby-bison","tag-national-park-service","tag-yellowstone-national-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15013,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15010\/revisions\/15013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}