These tourists thought a baby bison looked cold so they put it in their car

Two tourists were driving through Yellowstone National Park in the US last week, when they came across a bison calf. They thought it looked a bit chilly so they made the decision to put the calf in the boot of their SUV and drive off with it.

A completely sensible decision.

They made their way to a ranger station where Karen Richardson from Idaho, who was there with a school tour, snapped a photo of the presumably confused calf standing in the back of the tourists’ car.

"They were demanding to speak with a ranger," Richardson told EastIdahoNews.com.

"They were seriously worried that the calf was freezing and dying."

Ron Heusevelet, who was also with the tour, said he told them that they should let the calf go and that they could get in trouble for removing the animal but the father and son - who were described as being ’from another country’ - were adamant that they had made the right decision.

"They didn’t care. They sincerely thought they were doing a service and helping that calf by trying to save it from the cold," he said.

Pic: Karen Richardson/Facebook

Rangers were called and were none-too-impressed with the pair and gave them a ticket. The National Park Service advise that visitors stay at least 25 metres away from large animals at all times and that "every year visitors are gored and some have been killed" by bison.

The rangers then had them drive back to where they found the calf and released the animal back into the wild.

They’re just lucky the calf’s mother didn’t have words with them. And by words, we mean trampling.

via breakingnews.ie