Only 7 miles from our campsite in Yellowstone was the famous Elk Carcass and Grizzly story that unfolded while we were there.
There was a 700+ Bull Elk that tried to get a drink from a small pond that ended up getting stuck in the mud. After almost 30 hours from the first report the park rangers decided to humanely put the elk down. Within a day a huge boar grizzly drug the elk carcass out of the mud and covered it with grass. The Grizzly that the locals called Big Red then proceeded to guard his buffet for the next 10 days. He pretty much ate the entire thing in 10 days. By the end of it, he had grained a ton of winter weight. He was successfully able to defend his prize from several other grizzlies. Every time I checked on him, he was always eating of sleeping on it. Pretty cool to be able to witness. There was so much more to see and do in Yellowstone that I didn’t hang out there for hours on end waiting for a fight or something more exciting to happen.
Look at his claws!
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Life is good and I am blessed!
Kent
My first mule deer buck. They have big ears. Larger bodies than a whitetail, but behave pretty much the same.
