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eason after season, park visitors disregard rules and risk life and limb for the chance to marvel up close — and maybe photograph — those flamboyantly photogenic “fluffy cows,” aka bison. In South Dakota’s Custer State Park in 2020, a woman got too close to a herd of bison, one of which charged her and hooked her by her belt on its horns, an experience neither of them had planned for.

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