Good luck finding a bison video more beautiful and serene.
I’ll always stop to enjoy a majestic bison video, and I’ve also been known to have interest in watching exquisite sunsets. So to put things another way, this footage of two bison trudging through deep snow while a Neapolitan sunset kisses the peaks off in the distance was right up my alley.
We don’t know exactly where this video was captured. The wildlife photographer and tour guide who provides content to the “Good Bull Guided” Instagram page typically works within the Rocky Mountain National Park and Estes Park, and both of those places are known to have extirpated bison from the area in the 19th and 20th centuries.
All we do know is that the video was taken after this area got slammed with snow, and the bison didn’t seem to mind at all.
There’s a reason why bison are considered to be some of the toughest animals on the planet, and why they can handle and traverse snow-covered land better than most. When it’s just them versus nature, bison are built to last. Whether they’re facing blustery winters or extreme cold temperatures, the 2,000 pound beasts can adapt to and overcome nearly any weather you throw at them.
A bison’s coat thickens up as it heads into the winter season to counter the frigid temperatures and blankets of snow that often fall in their North Americans habitats. Their wooly coats play an intricate role in keeping them warm through the winter, and allegedly create such a layer of insulation that snow that lands on their coat will not melt from the heat the bison’s skin gives off.
And though appearance doesn’t matter much out in the wild, I do have to point out that any picture or video of a bison battling through snow looks badass. Bison standing strong in 50 MPH blizzard conditions? That’s sick. A rare white bison majestically thundering down an icy road? Priceless. Or what about a bison casually walking around in negative 37 degrees? There’s really nothing like them.
And as you’ll see in the video below, they’re smart as can be too when it comes to traveling in winter weather. They’ve been observed walking in single-file lines to get through the fallen wintry precipitation (and they’ve been called “nature’s snowplows”), but if they can avoid expending energy trudging through the snow, they will. That’s why bison will often say, “Don’t mind if I do” and utilize roadways that are more packed down and easier to navigate when it’s winter time.
The bison in this video looked to be showcasing both the single-file method of traveling and the intelligent use of roadways that are less covered by snow. It’s actually really funny to me watching the pair emerge from the deep snow onto the road, then stop once they get to the other side. I imagine both bison were realizing that the snow wasn’t as deep on the roadway, and as they looked off into the direction they had just been trotting, they thought to themselves:
“Are we really about to keep battling the snow? How much more time would taking the road cost us?”
