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#012 - Field Skills: Wildlife Distance | Bison, Bears & Keeping the Margin
Ask most people the most dangerous animal in Yellowstone and they'll say grizzly. They're wrong — it's the bison, by a wide margin, and 80% of the people it injures walked toward it first. This Field Skills episode is the survival companion to the wildlife parks, and it's really about one thing: the margin of space that keeps an encounter a memory instead of an ER visit.
Host Shawn Spainhour, a former Army officer, lays out the real numbers and the discipline behind them. Why a two-thousand-pound bison that looks like furniture can hit thirty miles an hour, the warning signs that mean move…
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