No. 8 made quite a scene the other day as she strolled about the pasture with an entire brier vine tangled in her horns.
This is by no means an uncommon sight among the bison, but it is probably one of the largest brier vines I've seen on a bison.
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| Our normally majestic looking bull (left) wearing a sort of hay wig (right). |
Other items I've seen worn by bison include bushes, soil, and, more recently, hay. Because bison are very large and wooly animals I can understand the tendency for things in their environment to cling to them. However, what often puzzles me is their indifference to said things. In the above photograph (right), for instance, the large mat of hay covering our bull's head didn't seem to bother him at all. Though the hay obscured a large portion of his field of view and could have easily been shaken off, the bull continued about his business as if everything was normal.
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| The hay did eventually fall off. |
