Yellowstone Bison Are Built for Winter Survival ❄️ Epic Yellowstone | Smithsonian Channel

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With a dense coat, a powerful mass of muscle and a large head ideally suited for clearing away snow and locating buried grass, bison are built for frigid conditions in Yellowstone. If it wasn’t for a hidden herd in the deepest reaches of this National Park, bison would have been wiped out in the late 1800s. Today, thousands of them thrive.
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  • @omnom3568
    @omnom35683 жыл бұрын

    Bison are among the coolest animals in North America

  • @orejonejo

    @orejonejo

    3 жыл бұрын

    and we humans are the most destructive animals on the whole planet

  • @cathat4820

    @cathat4820

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@orejonejo dont forget invasive

  • @harrishromero6447

    @harrishromero6447

    2 жыл бұрын

    Bison is the COOLest animal

  • @erichstreberg7101
    @erichstreberg71013 жыл бұрын

    Canada re introduced them into banff national park a couple years ago...theyre breeding and thriving!

  • @downbntout

    @downbntout

    3 жыл бұрын

    And wood bison reintroduced and taking hold in Alaska

  • @alexandra.adventures

    @alexandra.adventures

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is so good to hear 🤗⭐️

  • @Wildman-lc3ur

    @Wildman-lc3ur

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's always amazing to hear the efforts people are doing to bring bison back to thier home lands

  • @mariap7687

    @mariap7687

    Жыл бұрын

    BLESS THE LORD 🙏🏻 this makes me happy to know

  • @PokiJacoby
    @PokiJacoby3 жыл бұрын

    Bison are nature’s tanks

  • @draco_1876

    @draco_1876

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Mr Wimbledon green not entirely

  • @youstupidboi2483

    @youstupidboi2483

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Mr Wimbledon green Bison bodies a bear in a 1v1 what are you talking about

  • @eb1247

    @eb1247

    3 жыл бұрын

    A grown bison would charge a bear, I've seen rhinos charge elephants. But where the bison live there are no bears that would dare attack a grown adult

  • @harrishromero6447

    @harrishromero6447

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@eb1247 bison is huge and heavy mean it had a fighting chance

  • @goblincomic4522

    @goblincomic4522

    Ай бұрын

    try Hippo

  • @ZombiesAteMyGF
    @ZombiesAteMyGF3 жыл бұрын

    Just imagine, they used to blanket miles worth of open plains. Now just a tiny line of them migrating.

  • @richardblazek4780
    @richardblazek47803 жыл бұрын

    Brings tears to your eyes to watch them overcome natures adversities.

  • @AbbaZabbaOlyFrn

    @AbbaZabbaOlyFrn

    3 жыл бұрын

    We are not nature, its extraordinary we didn't hunt them into extinction. Im so glad we didn't

  • @ericpitre4031

    @ericpitre4031

    3 жыл бұрын

    Shd be happy tears

  • @trillmexicanz

    @trillmexicanz

    2 жыл бұрын

    It’s literally nature vs nature.

  • @spinningbackkick6021

    @spinningbackkick6021

    5 ай бұрын

    You destructive human beings..

  • @charmsly9506
    @charmsly95063 жыл бұрын

    humans: ew no i hate being cold Bison: *I dont have such weakness*

  • @tonalfon4251
    @tonalfon42513 жыл бұрын

    Amazing and beautiful creatures they are

  • @anthonylezama1645

    @anthonylezama1645

    3 жыл бұрын

    yes, Yoda

  • @tracerit

    @tracerit

    3 жыл бұрын

    *cringe*

  • @utopia4056

    @utopia4056

    3 жыл бұрын

    You can get right up next to some in Medicine Park in Southern Oklahoma. They came a little too close to our picnic table tho lol

  • @mathy0u
    @mathy0u3 жыл бұрын

    Quite a shame this was only 4 minutes long.... I love learning about Earth's animals.. I have a new found respect for Bison.

  • @bostonphotographer20

    @bostonphotographer20

    3 жыл бұрын

    You should see them up close in Yellowstone. Amazing

  • @18Bees

    @18Bees

    3 жыл бұрын

    I Agree

  • @mathy0u

    @mathy0u

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bostonphotographer20 Ive only seen some up close in NW Montana which was beautiful but I've always wanted to go to Yellowstone. Hopefully soon!

  • @nmeyers92

    @nmeyers92

    3 жыл бұрын

    They are amazing and mighty strong animals! Beautiful too!

  • @southsideman4891

    @southsideman4891

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah where were they migrating to???

  • @VisibleNoises
    @VisibleNoises2 жыл бұрын

    It's like something you expect to see from an ice age, megafauna migrating in a punishing blizzard. Kind of makes me sad thinking about how many there was at one time, vast herds just slaughtered senselessly to starve out the natives. And yet, the bison still remains.

  • @tothelighthouse9843

    @tothelighthouse9843

    5 ай бұрын

    And Indigenous nations remain too!!! 💖

  • @ronaldanderson6481
    @ronaldanderson64813 жыл бұрын

    You did not mention that, in winter the bison have a lower metabolism and consume only 25% of their summer diet.

  • @downbntout

    @downbntout

    3 жыл бұрын

    😳☺

  • @aliciatorres2794
    @aliciatorres27943 жыл бұрын

    Omg these are amazing animals!! May God protect them!

  • @HebaruSan

    @HebaruSan

    3 жыл бұрын

    I mean He could try letting up on the snow if He's interested in that

  • @goodsolonius7305

    @goodsolonius7305

    3 жыл бұрын

    They were protected when it was just soulless pagans living here unfortunately

  • @idkwhattoputformyusername9809

    @idkwhattoputformyusername9809

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Fornjotur Von Kvenland I think he’s throwing shade at Native Americans

  • @idkwhattoputformyusername9809

    @idkwhattoputformyusername9809

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Fornjotur Von Kvenland Some were animist, pagan, or monotheistic

  • @fwiedwice824
    @fwiedwice8243 жыл бұрын

    “These beasts carry winter with them.. every step” That’s bars 🔥

  • @893263007
    @8932630073 жыл бұрын

    Yellowstone Bison were imported from northern Alberta/Saskatchewan, which are 10 times colder. If anything, they have a tough time withstanding the Yellowstone heat.

  • @brucekuehn4031

    @brucekuehn4031

    5 ай бұрын

    Not accurate. There were bison remaining from the originals. Also not true that all bison descend from 24 Yellowstone specimens. Try to watch Ken Burns recent shows on bison if you are into the history.

  • @alexandra.adventures
    @alexandra.adventures3 жыл бұрын

    Some of the coolest creatures on earth 🌎✨ I feel so extremely fortunate to have had numerous encounters with these magnificent beasts in the wild!

  • @XimenaZhao415
    @XimenaZhao415 Жыл бұрын

    I love Mama Bison. She's a real leader.

  • @Anti-IsraHell

    @Anti-IsraHell

    13 күн бұрын

    He*

  • @terrioestreich4007
    @terrioestreich40073 жыл бұрын

    I live by a bison farm and I drive by them twice a day. I am amazed by the fact that the snow will fall on them and it doesn't melt! It just keeps piling up. They must be so insulated for their body heat not to even touch it. The babies in the spring are adorable too. I talked to the farmer once about them and he told me a story that when he first had them, he also had a horse and they killed it

  • @andzelikaberestko1662

    @andzelikaberestko1662

    3 жыл бұрын

    Where is that farm?

  • @terrioestreich4007

    @terrioestreich4007

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@andzelikaberestko1662 Minnesota :)

  • @skathwoelya2935

    @skathwoelya2935

    Жыл бұрын

    More to the point, why did he let them?

  • @jeffj2495
    @jeffj24953 жыл бұрын

    It is amazing when any animal species survives a harsh winter. These bison are tough critters.

  • @florencedahl3617
    @florencedahl36173 жыл бұрын

    Bison is the national mammal

  • @raunaklanjewar677
    @raunaklanjewar6773 жыл бұрын

    I absolutely love Yellowstone.

  • @skywatcher651
    @skywatcher6513 жыл бұрын

    Everything in nature is beautiful

  • @harrishromero6447

    @harrishromero6447

    2 жыл бұрын

    And dangerous

  • @georgebuvis7919
    @georgebuvis7919 Жыл бұрын

    Love watching this and seeing the tatanka are coming back I was in yellow stone park 25 years ago and they were all over the place and we loved seeing them 🐃 🦬 🐃 🦬

  • @sailendra_sahoo
    @sailendra_sahoo3 жыл бұрын

    They wage an ancient war with them - Beautiful line 😍

  • @orejonejo

    @orejonejo

    3 жыл бұрын

    i especially loved when they said they carry the winter with them

  • @christopherveeser9679
    @christopherveeser96793 жыл бұрын

    Animals have to toughen up for those wicked winters!!

  • @pteranodon6612
    @pteranodon66123 жыл бұрын

    When the glaciers return from the north, the bison will reclaim their lost lands.

  • @abhishekkulkarni9120
    @abhishekkulkarni91202 жыл бұрын

    Let's hope bisons will bounce bank and grow their numbers to at least a million.

  • @Wildman-lc3ur
    @Wildman-lc3ur3 жыл бұрын

    I remember when I was little and I used to wair a bison winter hat I remember as a kid seeing a documentary about bison using thier heads to dig in the snow So I began digging in the snow with my winter hat and ate the snow and also I remember another kid pretended to be a hunter

  • @aidangm7419
    @aidangm7419 Жыл бұрын

    3:19 now I’m imagining this scene but hundreds of times larger. Really puts their historical numbers in perspective

  • @drugbuddy665
    @drugbuddy6653 жыл бұрын

    It's so sad that both the buffalo and the native people we were trying to wipe out when we shot them by the millions still have to fight for their survival and their land. It's not fair.

  • @cheetahjammerplaysaj591

    @cheetahjammerplaysaj591

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bison, buffalos are only native to Asia and Africa. Their horns are on top of their head and are longer. Bisons are only native to North America and Europe. Their horns are much shorter and have longer fur than buffalo

  • @freedommalik2065
    @freedommalik20653 жыл бұрын

    I can never forgive those responsible for murdering the Bison to that extent. We were lucky here, the bottleneck effect from our poaching of the cheetah is making it difficult for those animals to bounce back in the same way. I visit Buffalo Bill's homestead to spit on it.

  • @groermaik

    @groermaik

    3 жыл бұрын

    Their ignorance is not an excuse, but an explanation.

  • @Jiggy609
    @Jiggy609 Жыл бұрын

    I absolutely love bison..a wonderful symbol of our great country

  • @MrSTravelQuest
    @MrSTravelQuest3 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful! Recently seen my first Bison 🦬 up close at Caprock Canyons State Park. I know I want to visit Yellowstone to see these amazing animals.

  • @rhyfelwrDuw
    @rhyfelwrDuw3 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful creatures!

  • @rymaveg7488
    @rymaveg7488 Жыл бұрын

    What a beautiful creatures. Pls, protect them not slaughter them. 😞

  • @cathyriggs5409
    @cathyriggs54093 жыл бұрын

    Nice looking Bison.

  • @zachelmquist4932
    @zachelmquist49323 жыл бұрын

    God sure did design and bring to life amazing creations.🙂

  • @ObamAmerican48
    @ObamAmerican483 жыл бұрын

    Bison are majestic.

  • @geemanbmw
    @geemanbmw3 жыл бұрын

    MAJESTIC BEAST

  • @obi_wanshinobi
    @obi_wanshinobi Жыл бұрын

    And while Bison seem slow, they can actually run up to 35 mph. Which is faster than some horses.

  • @jeannerogers7085

    @jeannerogers7085

    4 ай бұрын

    They can also jump a 5ft. fence easily.

  • @sandaljepitterkukur.
    @sandaljepitterkukur.3 жыл бұрын

    This is great friends ❤️ good luck always 🙏🙏

  • @ge2623
    @ge26233 жыл бұрын

    These documentaries always fail to mention WHY the Bison were slaughtered.

  • @michaelren9802

    @michaelren9802

    3 жыл бұрын

    shh don't talk about our dark past with the continent's previous inhabitants...

  • @alinaserbu8851
    @alinaserbu88513 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful animals 😍😍

  • @JonOroMusic
    @JonOroMusic3 жыл бұрын

    My best photograph I've ever taken was of a bison in the northern part of Yellowstone. Bison are beautiful creatures and are equally delicious.

  • @asulfurique9694
    @asulfurique96943 жыл бұрын

    Wow !! Excellente présentation

  • @thesaurusrex7919
    @thesaurusrex7919 Жыл бұрын

    And here I am in central Florida thinking I had it bad last night when it dropped to the mid 30’s..

  • @noice131
    @noice131 Жыл бұрын

    Imagine if one day we pack a bales of fresh green grass and drop in middle of their herd while they struggle to find dried grass below snow. It would be an experience like someone dropped a million $ in front of us.

  • @asifsayyed7046
    @asifsayyed70463 жыл бұрын

    Epic! Nature

  • @ciudadesoscuras
    @ciudadesoscuras2 жыл бұрын

    "In the 1800s as EUROPEANS expanded westward ... tens of millions were slaughtered."

  • @fellan2854
    @fellan28543 жыл бұрын

    2:22 snow hits eye and breaks up!

  • @TaufikOfficial21
    @TaufikOfficial213 жыл бұрын

    Amazing

  • @pikiwiki
    @pikiwiki6 ай бұрын

    Epic narration

  • @eb5857
    @eb58572 жыл бұрын

    A true beast

  • @Amitdas-gk2it
    @Amitdas-gk2it3 жыл бұрын

    Nice 👌

  • @Miamcoline
    @Miamcoline3 жыл бұрын

    Bison are freakin cool

  • @whyworkwhenicanrap6830
    @whyworkwhenicanrap6830 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing animals

  • @bornjusticerule5764
    @bornjusticerule57643 жыл бұрын

    So dope 🤲🏿🌊🌌🤙🏿

  • @kmarch6630
    @kmarch66303 жыл бұрын

    Brr! Looking at that made me so cold I turned up the heat and got a blanket.

  • @josemartinezgonzalez2450
    @josemartinezgonzalez24503 жыл бұрын

    Espectacular 🇪🇸

  • @mcluvin28x
    @mcluvin28x3 жыл бұрын

    Tens of millions were slaughtered 😔

  • @treck87
    @treck873 жыл бұрын

    "Few species are prepared to withstand these conditions" .....as a Wolverine laughs at everyone else from on top of a 10,000 ft. peak it climbed in a few hours, in the middle of winter, because it smells a frozen snack on the other side.

  • @kingtut4734
    @kingtut47343 жыл бұрын

    I can't help but think of Bison Burgers when I see them

  • @drowssapma

    @drowssapma

    3 жыл бұрын

    Marinated bison tips. Yummmmm

  • @dmeads5663
    @dmeads56633 жыл бұрын

    Bison remind me of wooly mammoth and wooly rhinos.

  • @harrishromero6447

    @harrishromero6447

    2 жыл бұрын

    Do wooly rhino exist

  • @joywilkins64
    @joywilkins643 жыл бұрын

    I always wonder if these animals actually FEEL the cold. I feel so bad for them.

  • @jeannerogers7085

    @jeannerogers7085

    4 ай бұрын

    They are where they were made to be, and their babies play in blizzards.

  • @sultanniazi2394
    @sultanniazi23943 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful. Amazing

  • @jefferee2002
    @jefferee20023 жыл бұрын

    We have a lot to be ashamed of as Americans. This is one of them. How dare we decimated this species.

  • @Therabithole

    @Therabithole

    3 жыл бұрын

    Now you are preserving them, that's the most important thing.

  • @Adyingcolonialism42

    @Adyingcolonialism42

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Therabithole nah they still have to pay reparations to indigenous people who they were trying to exterminate by eliminating their food

  • @dmeads5663

    @dmeads5663

    3 жыл бұрын

    Blaming today’s people for things that happened 140 years ago is insanity.

  • @Adyingcolonialism42

    @Adyingcolonialism42

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dmeads5663 no ones blaming you, If you want to take it personally that’s on you. but we do live in the aftermath of that genocide. The fact remains that the United States today is still the same United States that committed genocide; it’s how it got here.

  • @truthbetold2305
    @truthbetold23055 ай бұрын

    My friends also plow through snow.

  • @spinningbackkick6021

    @spinningbackkick6021

    5 ай бұрын

    Do they weigh 4,000 pounds and have horns..

  • @Liukanginthehouse
    @Liukanginthehouse3 жыл бұрын

    this is like ice age survival epic

  • @harrishromero6447

    @harrishromero6447

    2 жыл бұрын

    Practice test

  • @harrishromero6447

    @harrishromero6447

    2 жыл бұрын

    And the COOLest animal

  • @rakeshnegi293
    @rakeshnegi2933 жыл бұрын

    Oh my god..

  • @MrGeorge1993
    @MrGeorge19934 ай бұрын

    King of the North

  • @southsideman4891
    @southsideman4891 Жыл бұрын

    Marching where???? To the springs???

  • @Jee-Neet-Central
    @Jee-Neet-Central Жыл бұрын

    volume please

  • @Erikali26
    @Erikali263 жыл бұрын

    It's really incredible that humans have also helped this species rebound, after our catastrophic behavior.

  • @ericpitre4031

    @ericpitre4031

    3 жыл бұрын

    It was not you + I. We are doin sumfin now. Jeeeez

  • @user-ds6qt9xx1j
    @user-ds6qt9xx1j3 жыл бұрын

    سبحان الله الخالق أنه على كل شيء قدير

  • @zxbzei
    @zxbzei3 жыл бұрын

    can u pls post more jungle school full episodes and add sp[anish subtitles ?? :)

  • @imateapot51
    @imateapot513 жыл бұрын

    Where were they migrating to?

  • @samuelhowie4543

    @samuelhowie4543

    3 жыл бұрын

    They used to travel with the seasons. In the winter they were in the southern plains then as the seasons warmed up they would travel north. These are most likely migrating to a section of the park that doesn't hold onto the snow because of the hot springs in the area.

  • @HinduPAGANcowpissdrinkerRAKESH
    @HinduPAGANcowpissdrinkerRAKESH3 жыл бұрын

    Imagine you are from a tropical country

  • @rimizm
    @rimizm9 ай бұрын

    Battle tanks of the animal kingdom!!!

  • @angliccivilization1346
    @angliccivilization13463 жыл бұрын

    Bison and Moose

  • @vitaliyvyntu4566
    @vitaliyvyntu45662 жыл бұрын

    Hello from Ukraine

  • @MuhamadAkbar-hr4rq
    @MuhamadAkbar-hr4rq8 ай бұрын

    I always wonder the look of the narator

  • @jonahansen
    @jonahansen3 жыл бұрын

    Thank God we didn't extinguish them.

  • @harrishromero6447

    @harrishromero6447

    2 жыл бұрын

    We almost extinct bison and comeback till 2000s

  • @community1949
    @community19494 ай бұрын

    And so having just watched this I still can't fathom this stupidity and disrespect that some visitors to that area demonstrated toward this powerful creatures - like walking up and trying to pet them or taking a "selfie" with them. How obnoxious!!!!

  • @trillmexicanz
    @trillmexicanz2 жыл бұрын

    Americans gonna be like “I’d bring it inside and put a blanket on it.” 😂 fools

  • @EscapeCondition
    @EscapeCondition3 жыл бұрын

    Tens of millions - wow

  • @soldiercreekbison
    @soldiercreekbison3 жыл бұрын

    If you want to see more Bison across the country you need to eat more Bison. Think about it, cattle number upwards of 94 million, Bison are at roughly 600,000. Cattle numbers reach this high because we as a society value them economically. Bison populations can continue to grow if there is economic incentive to do so. This can and is happening in large part to consumers speaking with their dollars.

  • @stevenfielden8955
    @stevenfielden8955 Жыл бұрын

    Is it the slowest and biggest nosed animals who live in the snow?

  • @mrblack9791
    @mrblack9791 Жыл бұрын

    the volcano exploded then cold grr

  • @veralenora7368
    @veralenora73683 жыл бұрын

    What's always seemed odd to me are the early drawings of bison. None are accurate. The artists had never seen any animal like these. It took a long time before artists developed the skills to draw them accurately. Why was it so hard? I'm guessing we can only see and understand what we've already seen, what we've already understood. New ideas come hard.

  • @brucekuehn4031

    @brucekuehn4031

    5 ай бұрын

    That would also be true of such animals as elephants, rhinos, giraffes, dolphins, etc.

  • @michaelmoon6675
    @michaelmoon66753 жыл бұрын

    Was truly amazing that how man can be so cruel to our nature would like to have come back from only up to 300 and they was like millions of them tens of millions of them

  • @Doomthinkingman

    @Doomthinkingman

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not man, white people. Natives were living with them in balance for millennia before they showed up.

  • @podsmpsg1
    @podsmpsg13 жыл бұрын

    Looks like my Aunt.

  • @rezaDoz
    @rezaDozАй бұрын

    WHERE ARE THEY GOING???????????????????????

  • @afj_ramses8351
    @afj_ramses83513 жыл бұрын

    Pobres criaturas !!

  • @douglaswaggoner7487
    @douglaswaggoner74873 жыл бұрын

    If they could speak they would tell us that they are really very cold.

  • @Hardleewood
    @Hardleewood3 жыл бұрын

    Humans can be brutal, overkill.

  • @jeffw8218
    @jeffw82183 жыл бұрын

    Smithsonian Channel: "Bison are BUILT for the winter" Meanwhile, in the real world: Bison: Yeah, it's cold mate, we're going somewhere warmer. Kinda over this whole "winter thing", ya know??

  • @oldcountryman2795
    @oldcountryman27953 жыл бұрын

    They aren’t “built to survive’. They survive, so they are there, but the design is far from optimal because they weren’t designed they just happened.

  • @drugbuddy665

    @drugbuddy665

    3 жыл бұрын

    Was the pointless splitting of linguistic hairs that you obviously had to perform mental gymnastics to misunderstand supposed to make you look smart? Because your obtuse understanding of evolution and biology kiiiinda ruined it.

  • @skathwoelya2935

    @skathwoelya2935

    Жыл бұрын

    Nothing "just happens".

  • @omom-zs5qs
    @omom-zs5qs3 жыл бұрын

    Mantap, 3 coment

  • @praneethreddy1045
    @praneethreddy10453 жыл бұрын

    They survived 2 million winters but, almost went extinct within 100 winters.

  • @gpozdol7912
    @gpozdol79123 жыл бұрын

    Do they taste good?

  • @dmeads5663

    @dmeads5663

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, the meat is a little dry but it has a good taste to it.

  • @skathwoelya2935

    @skathwoelya2935

    Жыл бұрын

    Do you?

  • @chrismoody1342
    @chrismoody13429 ай бұрын

    They’re not all that uncommon in my neck of the woods. If your a rancher most likely you own one or two.

  • @Amitdas-gk2it
    @Amitdas-gk2it3 жыл бұрын

    Narrator sounds like Donald Trump 😂

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