WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Employees of the Bialowieza Nature Reserve in east Poland were looking for a male bison on Monday after hurting a tourist.
Local police leader Tomasz Krupa said a 61-year-old man was hospitalized with injuries after being attacked through the animal while walking early in the morning in the Bialowieza forest.
Bialowieza National Park chief Michal Krzysiak told The Associated Press that he then saw ranks of a giant single bison on site, the maximum probably a male. He said the guy and the animal should have met in bad luck. accident, among the low-growth bushes, and “being the giant of the two, the bison attacked the guy. “
He said bison, which are the largest mammals in Europe and are under strict protection, are lately in breeding season, making them agitated and aggressive.
Some 770 bison live in and around Bialowieza Reserve in the wild. There are about 1,800 bison in Poland and about 7,000 in the world.
Krzysiak said the attack was rare because buffalo avoids humans.
Reserve workers search for the animal on similar occasions and monitor the condition of the animal.