A 400 pound buffalo? You mean a calf, right? 1.5 year old heifers should dress out at 400 pounds hanging weight.
I guess that's why buffalo never really inhabited Mass. -- not enough feed.
Really ... buffalo and coyotes in Mass.? Invasive species everywhere.
I have also watched Yotes chase Blacktail Deer ( Vandenburg AFB in California ) in a pack, simular to the way wolves hunt.
Never underestimate the Yote.
I totally dissagree with KS, John, and Pig Doc. You guys could not be anymore wrong.
Can coyotes do it? Sure.
But I'm a big fan of Occam's Razor ... and this doesn't fit well with that.
Now, if the buffalo was truly 400 pounds (i.e. a calf) then I can start to believe. But that's not what the story stated. And if it happened, I'd bet it was in an enclosure, perhaps away from adult buffalo.
Cattle will put up with a lot. Buffalo don't put up with much of anything.
I do not know much about Bison.
But with a little research, an adult angus cow and an adult Bison Cow average 1100 pounds.
I have seen two cows taken down by Yotes in my lifetime. One was a range cow mix, the other a Holstein, which are a bit larger than angus, by the way.
It is not a far stretch to believe that they could also take down an adult Bison Cow.
I was too far away to tell if the Holstein was weak or wounded, but the range cow I bumped out of the brush was healthy, and when she ran down into a drainage, she ran right into a Yote pack.
They took advantage of the opportunity, ( Yotes are opportunistic ya know ) and proceeded to take her out. She was holding her own until she stumbled and fell, due to hoards of Yotes on her legs, and after she fell, she was done for.
I am a big fan of what I have seen, and could care less about Occams razor, or what any other philosopher or Mathematician has to say.
If I recall correctly, Mathematicians used to tell us that bumblebees and hummingbirds could not fly.
But I have seen them fly.
Absolutely dead wrong. My comparison is to simular sized or even bigger animals.
You just automatically doubt the story.
Have you ever been around range cattle?
I can assure you that their temperment is no where near the same as farm cattle.
No, but that Farmer in MA has.
;^)
Years ago, back in the 70's, I was attending High School in Western Kentucky, and a schoolmates Father, a Farmer by the way, claimed he killed a Coyote on his farm, and buried it.
Everyone all but called him a liar. The State Game Biologists said there weren't any Coyotes in Kentucky. Even the local Veterinarians said it was a probably a stray dog.
A week or two later, Mr. Trader killed another one and had his photo with it put in the local paper.
I think I will stick with a Farmers word, and what I have seen with my own eyes.
