BS: The Yellowstone bull elks are rutting

Subject: BS: The Yellowstone bull elks are rutting
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Sep 19 - 02:15 PM

'Tis the season!

press release: "You are responsible for your own safety"

Subject: RE: BS: The Yellowstone bull elks are rutting
From: gillymor
Date: 04 Sep 19 - 02:50 PM

Oh to be in YNP in the fall and hear those magnificent animals bugling
up the cows.

Subject: RE: BS: The Yellowstone bull elks are rutting
From: Mr Red
Date: 05 Sep 19 - 03:01 AM

In the day - Elke Sommer would summon bugling from many a rutty male. Even in the autumn.


I'll just clear my throat...............

Subject: RE: BS: The Yellowstone bull elks are rutting
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Sep 19 - 11:52 AM

I saw a nice group of 7 elk when I drove through Yellowstone in July. All were females, or at least none of them had antlers. I wonder where all the males are.

Subject: RE: BS: The Yellowstone bull elks are rutting
From: gillymor
Date: 05 Sep 19 - 12:29 PM

Probably at the pharmacy picking up their Viagra refills.

Subject: RE: BS: The Yellowstone bull elks are rutting
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 05 Sep 19 - 12:36 PM

The pub?

Subject: RE: BS: The Yellowstone bull elks are rutting
From: gillymor
Date: 05 Sep 19 - 12:47 PM

I was fishing the Firehole at Biscuit Basin in mid-June working my way down stream and taking a bunch of trout in the trough at the far bank when a cow elk crashed into the river just below me. She forded the river and tried to exit on the far bank but kept failing as the water was too deep so she kept drifting down stream to a place where she could climb out. The cow fouled my honey hole but it was worth it to observe that moment.
I've seen big bull elk (they are surprisingly huge) grazing between tents at Madison campground and it astonishes me that people will get right up close to take a picture. If one of them took off running the camper would be flattened like a pancake and possibly mangled by those antlers.

Subject: RE: BS: The Yellowstone bull elks are rutting
From: fat B****rd
Date: 05 Sep 19 - 02:42 PM

For a moment when I saw the post heading I thought it was an American Football thing....silly old sod

Subject: RE: BS: The Yellowstone bull elks are rutting
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Sep 19 - 02:50 PM

I guess I'm not sure how to distinguish elk from deer. I think male mule deer can get pretty big.

Subject: RE: BS: The Yellowstone bull elks are rutting
From: gillymor
Date: 05 Sep 19 - 03:13 PM

If you scroll down this page you'll see adjacent photos of a Bull Elk and a Mule Deer Buck:

YNP Mammals

Mule deer are supposedly common in YNP but I haven't seen many and usually only just after dawn or on a back country hike. Elk, however, are plentiful in the meadows off the roadways, especially in the Fall when the bulls are gathering up their harems.

Subject: RE: BS: The Yellowstone bull elks are rutting
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Sep 19 - 02:50 PM

And then there are
the Yellowstone bison,
acting as if they own the place.

Hell's Bells.