A grandpa tossed 8-feet into the air by a rampaging bison at Yellowstone National Park bravely lured the animal away from his grandson moments before the attack, according to a photographer who witnessed the heart-stopping moment.
Carl Isom-McDaniel, 65, told his grandson, 13, to get out of harm’s way so he could distract the 2,000-pound animal on the loose at Wyoming’s Bridge Bay campground, snapper Mike MacLeod told NewsNation.
“Carl and his grandson started walking along the road, and the bison saw them,” MacLeod, who has experience reading animal behavior, said as he recalled Friday’s attack.
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