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mental bison database. Bison aren’t carnivores, son Hood Ornament. He strutted by and stared at
are they? me with a look that seemed to say, “You got lucky
This was no time to argue taxonomy. This was this time, bubba.”
the time to get in the car. If a person can jump into You’d think we’d have taken a photo of this big
a car, I jumped into the car. I slammed the door. beast and his big beasty eye. But we didn’t. We
Two breathless seconds later one thousand were transfixed. Maybe even scared. Well Kathie
pounds of bison flesh vaulted onto the road and was scared, anyway. But truly it wasn’t just fear
touched down like a gymnast coming off a hobby that stopped us. It was the purity of the moment
horse, on the roadside directly opposite our car. In as this monstrous animal made a wonderfully ath-
the next moment he was crossing the road right in letic leap and was now strutting before us with
front of us, so close you could mistake him for a Bi- primeval malevolence. Maybe it wasn’t malevo-

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