Red Dog in protective custody

One reason that we elected to visit Yellowstone in the May was the appeal of seeing the “Yellowstone Babies”…..red dogs (bison calves), elk calves, bear cubs, Bighorn sheep kids, and scores of other wildlife offspring are visible in the park during late spring and early summer. Of course, you wouldn’t have known from the weather that is was spring…the temperature was in the 40′s each day, and we experienced rain, hail, sleet and snow during the week.
Red Dogs, the calves of the American Bison, dot the landscape and also provide a food source for the predators of Yellowstone; coyotes, wolves and bears. The adult bison keep a watchful eye for hungry predators, who have offspring of their own to feed. The balance of nature is apparent and although all of the Red Dogs will not survive, their numbers are such that the herd population is stable.