You know, I’m 52 years old and I don’t think I’ve ever seen an up-close picture of yak that gave a good sense of scale. Those things are just cold-weather banthas.
I wish I could find the video where I first saw a gaur. He’s just strolling down the road of this town, and everyone is clearing the streets. It was kind of awe inspiring.
I had a similar realization about bison recently too, those things are goddamned huge, bigger even than that mid-sized SUV. Apparently they can get up to 3000lbs in weight.
We camped in Yellowstone 30 years ago, and woke up to a bison in the campground, we all just decided to stay in our tent and wait it out, it wandered off, but left a buffalo chip the size of a x-large pizza at the entrance to our site.
It dried out by the 2nd or 3rd day so we could pick it up and toss it.
I had a similar experience camping with my family as a kid outside of Wichita Falls, I must’ve been 9 or 10 tops. I woke up one morning in the camper of my dad’s pickup instead of in my tent. Groggily trying to figure out what was going on I started to crawl out over the tailgate only to have my dad’s hand come around the corner, grab me by the face, and shove me back in, which was sufficient to wake me up enough to realize that there were 15-20 full-sized bison ambling through the camp. One of them even came within a couple feet of the truck. Needless to say I practically crapped my pants because I had never been anywhere near any kind of animal that big before.
You know, I’m 52 years old and I don’t think I’ve ever seen an up-close picture of yak that gave a good sense of scale. Those things are just cold-weather banthas.
Ever seen an Indian gaur? Fuckers are massive. They can get bigger than American bison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFXS243BnaA
Holy shit, that thing is a monster. They make cape buffalo look dainty and soft. :P
I wish I could find the video where I first saw a gaur. He’s just strolling down the road of this town, and everyone is clearing the streets. It was kind of awe inspiring.
I just had the same realization. Look at the size of the yaks head!
I had a similar realization about bison recently too, those things are goddamned huge, bigger even than that mid-sized SUV. Apparently they can get up to 3000lbs in weight.
We camped in Yellowstone 30 years ago, and woke up to a bison in the campground, we all just decided to stay in our tent and wait it out, it wandered off, but left a buffalo chip the size of a x-large pizza at the entrance to our site.
It dried out by the 2nd or 3rd day so we could pick it up and toss it.
Nature is amazing
I had a similar experience camping with my family as a kid outside of Wichita Falls, I must’ve been 9 or 10 tops. I woke up one morning in the camper of my dad’s pickup instead of in my tent. Groggily trying to figure out what was going on I started to crawl out over the tailgate only to have my dad’s hand come around the corner, grab me by the face, and shove me back in, which was sufficient to wake me up enough to realize that there were 15-20 full-sized bison ambling through the camp. One of them even came within a couple feet of the truck. Needless to say I practically crapped my pants because I had never been anywhere near any kind of animal that big before.