Baby bison euthanized after ride in visitors' car

RGar974417 wrote:
I agree the people shouldn't have done that,but thge calf could have been saved. No need to kill it.

Ahhh...from a couple of posts up:

"In order to ship the calf out of the park, it would have had to go through months of quarantine to be monitored for brucellosis. No approved quarantine facilities exist at this time, and we don't have the capacity to care for a calf that's too young to forage on its own. Nor is it the mission of the National Park Service to rescue animals: our goal is to maintain the ecological processes of Yellowstone. Even though humans were involved in this case, it is not uncommon for bison, especially young mothers, to lose or abandon their calves. Those animals typically die of starvation or predation."