Category Archive 'Great Smoky Mountains National Park'

16 Nov 2013

Great Smoky Mountains Elk: The Video

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You recall that young bull elk, who was photographed beating up on a photographer in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park last month?

There is also a video of the encounter.

Watching the video, it seems clear that the photographer could have stood up and, at least briefly thereby, frightened off the elk, and he would very probably then have had time to scurry off and take shelter in one of the nearby cars. It also seemed clear to me that the young elk was frequently very close to starting a really thorough hoof-stomping, antler-poking display of power.

The Knoxville television station reported yesterday that Park authorities sent that elk off to live on a farm, having apparently witnessed more than one incident of “human contact.”

Apparently, park visitors had been feeding him, and antler rubbing and close encounters of the cervine kind may have been his way of saying: “Feed me, Seymour!”


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