FRIDAY EVENING, FORTWHYTE ALIVE - about ten minutes after uploading my previous post, I was by the front desk here at FW. One of the front desk staff had contacted Ken, our Site Manager, about our close encounter with the bison in labour. Ken's advice: get back out to the paddock, because the mom would have the baby soon!
We did, and though we did not see the actual birth, we got to see a brand-new baby bison licked clean by it's mom, stand on its wobbly legs, fall down when it tried to lift three legs off the ground at once, and finally, gain the footing and confidence to follow its mother (and her milk!) across the pasture to join the herd.
This baby is number seven of the year. It's six "classmates" were playing with it (or, at least running and jumping with it) within about an hour of it's arrival.
I shouldn't need a big event like a bison birth to remind me that this thing we call Life on Earth is wonderful and exciting.
Just because I shouldn't need a reminder does not mean big, wonderful events shouldn't be appreciated!
I don't think those of us who saw the little animal stand, walk, or nurse for the first time will soon forget last Friday. That an animal so tiny and fragile could...work...and have the potential to grow into a creature as awe-inspiring as a bison...awesome.
Welcome, little bison.Continue to remind us of the wonder of Life, and our responsibility to you and the rest of the thing we call Life of Earth.
-Barret
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