The Yellowstone bison herd running video has circulated around the internet this week, and apparently the only explanation for this phenomenon is that the Yellowstone bison herd running is not for leisure, but the running going on is for their lives.
Below is the most popular version of the video, including many distressing claims:
The video shows a herd of bison allegedly "running for their lives" out of Yellowstone National Park. The theory that the Yellowstone bison herd running is because they are sensing oncoming danger began thanks to news of the super volcano inside Yellowstone. It isn't unlikely that people turn to rash conclusions with animal activities, such as the Yellowstone bison herd running, especially with the "end of the world" theories popular back in 2012.
Another probable reason why many have connected the Yellowstone bison herd running to the eruption of the super volcano is that on March 30, Sunday, Yellowstone experienced the most powerful earthquake since 1980. The earthquake was a magnitude 4.8. Though doing no damage physically to the park or any living creature in it, the quake apparently affected people's faith in facts.
Last year, the super volcano was found to be 2.5 times larger than previously known. It has not erupted in over 640,000 years, hence many conjectures of an eruption coming soon in connection with the Yellowstone bison herd running.
Despite all these presumptions of a super volcano erupting in lieu of the Yellowstone bison herd running video, park authorities told Reuters that the video is actually of the animals galloping into the park and not out.
Yellowstone park spokeswoman Amy Bartlett says, "It was a spring-like day and they were frisky. Contrary to online reports, it's a natural occurrence and not the end of the world."
Another person who claims to be the one behind the original video of the Yellowstone bison herd running even said that it's actually an annual occurrence.
When interviewed by the LA Times, the man who posted the video, Leo Leckie said that the spreading disquiet was caused by "baseless rumors and deliberate misrepresentations of what those bison were actually doing in the video."
Leckie is a sales associate of the nonprofit Yellowstone Association, an educational partner of Yellowstone National Park. The video was originally posted on March 14 on his Facebook page with the title, "Yellowstone bison on the run for the joy of Spring."
Leckie added, "Those bison were running for the sake of running. There was nothing chasing them. There was no mudslide. They were just running. And they were running into the park, not away from it."
For further proof and to allay fears caused by the Yellowstone bison herd running, the park published a video with a more detailed explanation of the occurrence.
Apparently, during the dead of winter, animals will drop to lower elevations and sometimes wander outside the park to scour for food. When spring comes again, they come back to the park.
Need more assurance that the Yellowstone bison herd running is not connected to a super volcano eruption?
Chief of public affairs at Yellowstone, Al Nash, says, "We have seen no signs to suggest the Yellowstone volcano is about to erupt."
Peter Cervelli, associate director for science and technology at the U.S. Geological Survey's Volcano Science Center in California and a scientist with the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, also agrees telling Reuters, "The chance of that happening in our lifetimes is exceedingly insignificant."
University of Utah Seismograph Stations also downplayed fears. "There is no evidence that a catastrophic eruption at Yellowstone National Park (YNP) is imminent," the service said. "Current geologic activity at Yellowstone has remained relatively constant since earth scientists first started monitoring some 30 years ago. Though another caldera-forming eruption is theoretically possible, it is very unlikely to occur in the next thousand or even 10,000 years."
The Yellowstone bison herd running should not cause any more alarms now that experts confirmed the truth.
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